Monat: November 2017
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Blockchain Consensus Algorithms – Proof of Anything?
Blockchains have been proven over the last years to be stable distributed ledger technologies. Stable refers to the fact that they can recover from attacks and/or bugs without compromising their assets. They are most commonly known for enabling transaction with virtual cryptocurrencies not issued by a central authority. Popular examples are Bitcoin and Ethereum. However,…
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Ethereum & Analytics: Explore the blockchain using Hadoop, Hive, Flink and Spark
HadoopCryptoLedger release 1.1.0 added support for another well-known cryptocurrency: Ethereum and its Altcoins. Of course similar to its Bitcoin & Altcoin support you can use the library with many different frameworks in the Hadoop ecosystem: Hadoop MR Apache Hive Apache Flink Apache Spark and Apache Spark Datasource API Furthermore, you can use it with various…