After a quiet day on 17 February we are back in play with three interesting little events for 18 February.
Bitcoin Pizza man Laszlo Hanyecz bought more pizzas, the Indian Government started getting serious on cyber crime, and Bitmain turned up the dial on its Antminers.
18 February 2018 - Laszlo buys Bitcoin Pizzas - Take 2
To demonstrate the recently released Lightning Network Laszlo Hanyecz, who bought the original 10K BTC ‘Bitcoin Pizzas’ in 2010, bought 2 more on the Lightning Network.
He used a service offering Domino's Pizzas ordering over the Lightning Network...
18 February 2019 - Indian Government Establishes Crypto Forensic Lab
To help boost efforts to combat growing cyber crime the Indian Government announced the setting up of the National Cyber Forensic Lab which included a cryptocurrency forensic lab to perform crypto-related analyses.
The Cyber Protection Awareness and Detection Centre (CyPAD) and the lab are both located in the same complex in Dwarka’s Sector 16 C.
18 February 2019 - Bitmain ups ASIC Mining Chip Efficiency by 27%
Crypto miner tech manufacturer Bitmain Technologies Limited announced a new 7nm ASIC chip for SHA256 mining boasting a 27% increase in efficiency.
The new BM1397 chips which are more efficient when mining proof of work (PoW) coins are to be installed in the new Antminer models S17 and T17.
Help the Project and earn HIVE
I've not had much response on this so far but the offer still stands - 1 HIVE if you track down a suitable verifiable event that I use in a future 'This Day In Crypto History' post.
The empty days coming up that I am particularly keen to get entries for are...
February 21st, 26th, & 29th (!)
March 2nd, 4th, 5th & 7th
If anyone does find an event for 29 February I will 4x the reward to 4 HIVE.
Events will have to be notable enough, with links to reputable websites for verification. Events can be posted in comments below or sent to me on Discord (Pennsif#9921).
I had to take a skip on 17 February as no suitable events had been found in time (although one has now turned up).
This is a late entry for 18 February due to 'scheduling issues' (I feel asleep!).
Normal service for 19 February will resume shortly.
Happy Fridays
Pennsif
