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Internet key to farm security, farmer Bruce Crafter says at Farm Security and Farmers Health Expo in Bendigo – Bendigo Advertiser

August 25, 2017 | Author: admin

Data affordability is influencing farmers' decisions about security systems.

Lily and Justine McKenzie help spread awareness of security technology. Picture: EMMA D'AGOSTINO

Beyondblue mental health advocate Tony McManus shares his family's story and some tips for mental health at Bendigo Stadium.

Grant Sutton, of Ag Cloud, presents his product at the Farm Security and Farmers Health Expo in Bendigo.

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FARMER Bruce Crafter travelled from the Wimmera for the Farm Security and Farmers Health Expo in Bendigo.

He was impressed by the technology he encountered, but disappointed that telecommunications companies were not in attendance.

Though Mr Crafter was looking to invest in security cameras, he said he was mindful of the cost of the internet service the system would need to draw upon.

Its the affordability of that data, the farmer said.

Its okay having it [security cameras], but youve got to be able to have those costs.

Having attended the expo, he was all the more motivated to find out how much hed be charged for that connectivity.

Justine McKenzie, of Anyday Security, said the demand for security cameras was rising in the Bendigo area.

The prospect of warmer weather, vacations and a perceived increase in thefts and break-ins were possible factors influencing that trend.

Mrs McKenzie said police had also been encouraging peopleto look into options such as CCTV.

The two-dayexpo, at Bendigo Stadium, concludes at 3pm on Friday.

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OneLogin is Changing How We Think About Internet Security – HiTechChronicle

August 25, 2017 | Author: admin

Before the 21st century, companies had a much easier time keeping their communications secure. Back then, the most they would have to worry about was encrypting emails and informing their personnel about privacy when they sent faxes. Times have definitely changed. The new wave of communications has enacted new challenges for those companies looking to control how information flows in and out of their company. The emergence of always-on listening devices, for example, like Android Phones and iPhones Siri, as well as the increased number of smart home devices like the Amazon Echo, make for a new set of challenges.

Companies that handle sensitive consumer data like banks and hospitals must be especially vigilant in securing their private information. Complications that can arise from a breach of their communications can be much fold. On the one hand, as soon as news spreads that a company cant secure its patrons data, public trust in that company vanishes along with their consumer base; on the other, these companies can actually face liability and lawsuits if the offended party suffers some type of loss, which adds even more bad publicity. Companies are now faced with the necessity to add more layers of protection between their consumers, themselves, and those who would seek to exploit both.Conversational Apps

Since computing began with enormous desktops that eventually became smaller versions and laptops, the most adamant Internet security is dedicated to that medium. That is, the world is still catching up to the rapid advancement of the mobile phone as a device that can feasibly replace a computer. Simply put, where a user/password authentication will work on most desktops, mobile devices have many ways to sneak in. Conversational apps, for example, are even tougher to secure, as its underlying avenues for entry are simply different than a desktop.

For example, OneLogin has taken measures to alleviate these concerns using Multi-Factor Authentication, or MFA. This form of authentication goes beyond the usual name and password check and adds several factors that allow its mechanism to determine the users identity. On the surface, MFA greatly decreases the likelihood that a breach will occur just by adding more layers of security, but it also prevents accidental breaches of information from occurring by authorized personnel. This can be added to all devices that have access to the network, so the challenge of securing mobile devices with conversational weak points becomes a non-issue since the app will be absorbed into a catalog that integrates with its security measures.

Essential Security Measures

The following are further measures you can take to secure a mobile device running conversational apps:

Secure the network. Securing transmissions at the application level becomes much easier when you secure the devices responsible for providing the Internet. A robust firewall application is necessary, as is high-level encryption of data, and limited access. OneLogin uses Integra Cloud Firewall to secure its Active Directories and protect information submitted to the cloud.

Avoiding Linked Devices. This ties into the conversational apps ability to communicate directly with other listening devices once a simple verification is completed once. It means that anyone in physical possession of an external device can use it to infiltrate another. Again, Multi-Factor Authentication also prevents this, since the user would need to pass several more layers before a breach can occur.

Be wary of third parties. Running communications through conversational apps allows the companies that govern these communications access. This is the rare case when reading over the terms and conditions of an application actually matters. If anything in the fine print gives an indication that the company has the right to store information on their own servers, company use should be severely limited or ceased altogether.

About OneLogin

OneLogin is an Internet security company that specializes in all aspects of identity management, including SSO. They offer a number of different services related to securing company devices in all forms, using an extensive array of measures. Mainly they help companies enforce their security policies with cloud-based protection, greater control over their devices and applications, and provide identity management as a service. Check them out on social media, including Facebook.

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Q2 2017 Akamai State Of The Internet / Security Report Analyzes Re-Emergence Of PBot Malware; Domain Generation … – PR Newswire (press release)

August 25, 2017 | Author: admin

In the case of PBot, malicious actors used decades-old PHP code to generate the largest DDoS attack observed by Akamai in the second quarter. Attackers were able to create a mini-DDoS botnet capable of launching a 75 gigabits per second (Gbps) DDoS attack. Interestingly, the Pbot botnet was comprised of a relatively small 400 nodes, yet still able to generate a significant level of attack traffic.

Another entry on the "everything old is new again" list is represented by the Akamai Enterprise Threat Research Team's analysis of the use of Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA) in malware Command and Control (C2) infrastructure. Although first introduced with the Conficker worm in 2008, DGA has remained a frequently used communication technique for today's malware. The team found that infected networks generated approximately 15 times the DNS lookup rate of a clean network. This can be explained as the outcome of access to randomly generated domains by the malware on the infected networks. Since most of the generated domains were not registered, trying to access all of them created a lot of noise. Analyzing the difference between behavioral characteristics of infected versus clean networks is one important way of identifying malware activity.

When the Mirai botnet was discovered last September, Akamai was one of its first targets. The company's platform continued to receive and successfully defended against attacks from the Mirai botnet thereafter. Akamai researchers have used the company's unique visibility into Mirai to study different aspects of the botnet, most specifically in the second quarter, its C2 infrastructure. Akamai research offers a strong indication that Mirai, like many other botnets, is now contributing to the commoditization of DDoS. While many of the botnet's C2 nodes were observed conducting "dedicated attacks" against select IPs, even more were noted as participating in what would be considered "pay-for-play" attacks. In these situations, Mirai C2 nodes were observed attacking IPs for a short duration, going inactive and then re-emerging to attack different targets.

"Attackers are constantly probing for weaknesses in the defenses of enterprises, and the more common, the more effective a vulnerability is, the more energy and resources hackers will devote to it," said Martin McKeay, Akamai senior security advocate. "Events like the Mirai botnet, the exploitation used by WannaCry and Petya, the continued rise of SQLi attacks and the re-emergence of PBot all illustrate how attackers will not only migrate to new tools but also return to old tools that have previously proven highly effective."

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Other key findings from the report include:

A complimentary copy of the Q2 2017 State of the Internet / Security Report is available for download at http://akamai.me/2i9vrdz. Download individual charts and graphs, including associated at http://akamai.me/2w6mI1v.

MethodologyThe Akamai Second Quarter, 2017 State of the Internet / Security Report combines attack data from across Akamai's global infrastructure and represents the research of a diverse set of teams throughout the company. The report provides analysis of the current cloud security and threat landscape, as well as insight into attack trends using data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform. The contributors to the State of the Internet / Security Report include security professionals from across Akamai, including the Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT), the Threat Research Unit, Information Security, and the Custom Analytics group.

About AkamaiAs the world's largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, Akamai makes it easier for its customers to provide the best and most secure digital experiences on any device, anytime, anywhere. Akamai's massively distributed platform is unparalleled in scale with over 200,000 servers across 130 countries, giving customers superior performance and threat protection. Akamai's portfolio of web and mobile performance, cloud security, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions are supported by exceptional customer service and 24/7 monitoring. To learn why the top financial institutions, e-commerce leaders, media & entertainment providers, and government organizations trust Akamai please visit http://www.akamai.com, blogs.akamai.com, or @Akamai on Twitter.

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Microsoft Unveils Cost-Cutting Archival Cloud Storage Option – eWeek

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Microsoft kicked off a public preview of its Azure Archive Blob Storage service this week, offering customers a lower-cost cloud storage solution for rarely accessed data.

Storage tiering is hardly a new concept, although it may be coming to an end thanks to the advent of solid-state drives and innovations in the storage and hardware space. For now, it's common for organizations to place their critical data on expensive, high-performance storage arrays and then move it down the line as it winds up being accessed less frequently over time.

Eventually, older data ends up on comparatively cheap and slower storage mediums like tape. Naturally, the tradeoff for lower storage bills is leisurely data retrieval times.

Enterprises can employ a similar strategy to contain their cloud storage costs.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), for example, introduced its Glacier archival cloud storage service in 2012 for the low price of a penny per gigabyte (GB) per month at the time. Today, Glacier storage goes for as low as 0.4 cents per GB in some regions.

Last year, Microsoft introduced its own Azure Cool Blob storage option, which also cost customers a penny per GB per month in some areas. Now, users have another, lower-cost option called Azure Archive Blob Storage, along with new Blob-Level Tiering data lifecycle management capabilities, announced Kumail Hussain, a senior program manager at Microsoft Azure.

"Azure Archive Blob storage is designed to provide organizations with a low cost means of delivering durable, highly available, secure cloud storage for rarely accessed data with flexible latency requirements (on the order of hours)," Hussain wrote. "Archive access tier is our lowest priced storage offering. Customers with long-term storage which is rarely accessed can take advantage of this."

According to Microsoft's pricing page, Azure Archive Blob costs 0.18 cents per GB per month when the service is delivered through its cloud data center in the Eastern U.S. Customers can expect a 99 percent availability SLA (service level agreement) when the service makes its way out of the preview stage, said Hussain.

Complementing the new service is a new Blob-level Tiering feature that will allow customers to change the access tier of storage objects, or "blobs" as Microsoft calls them, among Hot, Cool or Archive.

Also in preview, it enables users to match costs to usage patterns without moving data between accounts, Hussain said. Microsoft will upgrade the accounts of customers who have large amounts of data parked in their General Purpose storage accounts, allowing them to capitalize on the new feature when it reaches general availability.

Adaptability appears to be guiding principles guiding Microsoft's cloud storage strategy.

Earlier this month, the company announced the availability of Imanis Data on Azure. The solution integrates with Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Store, and uses the HDInsight platform from Microsoft along with software from Imanis Data (formerly Talena) to provide bid data migration and recovery services for big data applications.

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A Redditor Archived Nearly 2 Million Gigabytes of Porn to Test Amazon’s ‘Unlimited’ Cloud Storage – Motherboard

August 25, 2017 | Author: admin

What does "unlimited" data storage mean, really? Unlimited plansoffered by many cloud storage and backup companies as promotions for their storage capabilitiesare almost never truly limitless. Most come with stipulations about data usage limits if you start hoarding too hard, and the majority of users will never come close to needing that much storage.

Reddit user beaston02 was determined to find the true ceiling of Amazon's cloud storage plan, which was killed off in June. He decided to push its limits with a petabyte of porn. (Some people credit beaston02 for Amazon's decision to cancel the unlimited storage offering, but he denies that rumor.) For reference, a petabyte is one million gigabytes.

To gather this much data, beaston02 wrote scripts that recorded public webcam shows from a variety of adult cam sites, including CamSoda, Chaturbate, and MyFreeCams.

"I have more of a problem with collecting or hoarding data than I do with porn"

"It is nearly entirely porn," he told me in a Reddit message. "Ever since I got into computers, I found myself learning more, and faster when it was something more interesting. Call me crazy, but women interest me more than most other things on the internet and there is a huge amount of data being created daily, so it was a good fit for the project."

He said it took five or six months to collect one petabyte of porn, and he stopped collecting just shy of 1.8 petabytes.

How long would it take one to consume 1.8 petabytes of porn? 1.8 petabytes is about 23.4 years of HD-TV video, but webcam streams are nowhere near that quality. A few good folks crunched the numbers: 720p is about two gigabytes per hour, and at 900,000 hours, that's 102 years of straight calendar time. If the videos are even lower quality, say, 480p, that's around 0.7 gigabytes per hour, or 293 years and six months. Better get to watching.

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Beaston02 told me he stopped recording streams simply because his interest in it waned. "I know plenty of people have labeled me some huge pervert or someone with a huge porn addiction, but that's really not me at all," he said. "I have more of a problem with collecting or hoarding data than I do with porn." He said he used the exercise to learn Python, SQL databases, and how to handle that much data. "The project ran its course, I got the knowledge I was hoping to get, and I just had no interest in it anymore."

While he's no longer running the scripts that collected the porn, he made them available on Github. Another Redditor, -Archivist, took up the cause with the "Petabyte Porn Project," recruiting other hoarders to help continue recording live public cam sessions all day every day. -Archivist told me in a Reddit message that this represents "upwards of 12 terabytes per day." Those helping hoard are close to two petabytes now, stored on Amazon's cloud and mirrored on Google Drive. Amazon did not respond to Motherboard's request for comment.

Recording live streams and downloading them for later viewing is technically legal, but morally questionable. Some say "these people chose to be in the public eye" since they're recording from free, public streams, but most free cam models are paid on tips from viewers during live shows.

I asked Charley Hart, a cam model at CamSoda, what she thought of people downloading streams without her knowledge. "Part of me is ok with some of it," she said. "It's one thing if I do itI think that's the whole thing, it's all about consent." She said that some women use live streams because it keeps their identities slightly safer than a static video that's uploaded to a website for repeated viewing. It could also be good advertising for a model to have her work spread widely, but only if viewers seek her out specifically instead of only seeking the next free video.

Some of her viewers download her shows while they watch, but always with her consent, and usually with the understanding that if they capture a good GIF or clip, they'll share with her so she can promote herself with it.

"That's why we ask guys to pay for our porn, because instead of going to production companies now, you're pretty much going specifically to the girl," Hart said. "The fact that some guys are trying to get that fantasy for free? I feel a little taken advantage of. I'm already giving away so much for free ... We choose this job and I understand that, but people should be compensated for what they do."

Beaston02 said that although people request he add features for recording private shows or ones that have geolocation requirementsviewable only by those within a geological area the model or site has specifiedhe doesn't deliver them. "We all have different places where we draw the line morally, and that happens to be one of my lines, at least as far as publicly releasing code goes," he said. "Although I have no control over what any captured content is used for later, I also have asked any content gathered by the scripts not be shared or sold on websites."

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Back up everything with lifetime 2TB cloud storage for under $50 – Popular Science

August 25, 2017 | Author: admin

Backing up your most precious files is always a smart move. But local backups are always at risk of fire, flood and hardware failure. You can save your data from these disasters with Zoolz Cloud Storage. This digital time capsule has enough space to back up all your files, with lifetime 2TB storage now just $49.99 at the Popular Science Shop.

Backing up your entire hard drive online would normally be very expensive. Zoolz makes it affordable by using cold storage technology. This provides a long-term home for your files, while still allowing you to download your data within 35 hours. You can keep two computers backed up with one subscription, and Zoolz works across Mac and PC.

The desktop app is actually stacked with great features. The Smart Selection tool lets you choose which files to back up, while bandwidth throttling is really useful on slower connections. You can also control file retention, meaning you can revert to the previous version of any document. For added peace of mind, Zoolz keeps all your data backed up in multiple data centres.

This much lifetime storage would normally cost $3,600order now for just $49.99 to start backing up.

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How quantum mechanics can change computing – San Francisco … – San Francisco Chronicle

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)

Jonathan Katz, University of Maryland

(THE CONVERSATION) In early July, Google announced that it will expand its commercially available cloud computing services to include quantum computing. A similar service has been available from IBM since May. These arent services most regular people will have a lot of reason to use yet. But making quantum computers more accessible will help government, academic and corporate research groups around the world continue their study of the capabilities of quantum computing.

Understanding how these systems work requires exploring a different area of physics than most people are familiar with. From everyday experience we are familiar with what physicists call classical mechanics, which governs most of the world we can see with our own eyes, such as what happens when a car hits a building, what path a ball takes when its thrown and why its hard to drag a cooler across a sandy beach.

Quantum mechanics, however, describes the subatomic realm the behavior of protons, electrons and photons. The laws of quantum mechanics are very different from those of classical mechanics and can lead to some unexpected and counterintuitive results, such as the idea that an object can have negative mass.

Physicists around the world in government, academic and corporate research groups continue to explore real-world deployments of technologies based on quantum mechanics. And computer scientists, including me, are looking to understand how these technologies can be used to advance computing and cryptography.

In our regular lives, we are used to things existing in a well-defined state: A light bulb is either on or off, for example. But in the quantum world, objects can exist in a what is called a superposition of states: A hypothetical atomic-level light bulb could simultaneously be both on and off. This strange feature has important ramifications for computing.

The smallest unit of information in classical mechanics and, therefore, classical computers is the bit, which can hold a value of either 0 or 1, but never both at the same time. As a result, each bit can hold just one piece of information. Such bits, which can be represented as electrical impulses, changes in magnetic fields, or even a physical on-off switch, form the basis for all calculation, storage and communication in todays computers and information networks.

Qubits quantum bits are the quantum equivalent of classical bits. One fundamental difference is that, due to superposition, qubits can simultaneously hold values of both 0 and 1. Physical realizations of qubits must inherently be at an atomic scale: for example, in the spin of an electron or the polarization of a photon.

Another difference is that classical bits can be operated on independently of each other: Flipping a bit in one location has no effect on bits in other locations. Qubits, however, can be set up using a quantum-mechanical property called entanglement so that they are dependent on each other even when they are far apart. This means that operations performed on one qubit by a quantum computer can affect multiple other qubits simultaneously. This property akin to, but not the same as, parallel processing can make quantum computation much faster than in classical systems.

Large-scale quantum computers that is, quantum computers with hundreds of qubits do not yet exist, and are challenging to build because they require operations and measurements to be done on a atomic scale. IBMs quantum computer, for example, currently has 16 qubits, and Google is promising a 49-qubit quantum computer which would be an astounding advance by the end of the year. (In contrast, laptops currently have multiple gigabytes of RAM, with a gigabyte being eight billion classical bits.)

Notwithstanding the difficulty of building working quantum computers, theorists continue to explore their potential. In 1994, Peter Shor showed that quantum computers could quickly solve the complicated math problems that underlie all commonly used public-key cryptography systems, like the ones that provide secure connections for web browsers. A large-scale quantum computer would completely compromise the security of the internet as we know it. Cryptographers are actively exploring new public-key approaches that would be quantum-resistant, at least as far as they currently know.

Interestingly, the laws of quantum mechanics can also be used to design cryptosystems that are, in some senses, more secure than their classical analogs. For example, quantum key distribution allows two parties to share a secret no eavesdropper can recover using either classical or quantum computers. Those systems and others based on quantum computers may become useful in the future, either widely or in more niche applications. But a key challenge is getting them working in the real world, and over large distances.

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article here: http://theconversation.com/how-quantum-mechanics-can-change-computing-80995.

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Commonwealth Bank investing in Australia’s first quantum computer company – Which-50 (blog)

August 25, 2017 | Author: admin

Commonwealth Bank has invested over $14 million to support the development of the first Australian silicon-based quantum computer.

They join Telstra, the Federal Government, the New South Wales Government and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in an $83 million venture to found Australias first quantum computing company.

The company, Silicon Quantum Computing Pty Ltd (SQC), has been launched to advance the development and commercialisation of the UNSWs world-leading quantum computing technology.

Working with the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), the company will operate from new laboratories within CQC2Ts UNSW headquarters.

Headed by UNSW Professor of Physics Michelle Simmons, CQC2Ts research is at the forefront of a global scientific race thats been compared to the space race of the 1950s and 60s.

Todays announcement is an exciting next step in the long-standing relationship that Commonwealth Bank has had with Michelle Simmons and the UNSW Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, says Dilan Rajasingham, Head of Emerging Technology at Commonwealth Bank.

The SQC board will initially be chaired by corporate lawyer and company director Stephen Menzies.

Other SQC board members include Professor Simmons, CBA chief information officer David Whiteing, Telstra chief scientist Hugh Bradlow and Secretary of the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science Glenys Beauchamp.

The company will drive the development and commercialisation of a 10-qubit quantum integrated circuit prototype in silicon by 2022 as the forerunner to a silicon-based quantum computer.

We have invested more than $14 million in quantum computing because we believe in its future promise, in its future capability, and its potential as a differentiator. Quantum computing will provide Commonwealth Bank with a means to evolve our understanding of our customers, through real-time analysis of their patterns and interactions, so we can provide more tailored products, insights and advice, Mr Rajasingham says.

In April 2017 Commonwealth Bank developed a quantum computer simulator to give Australian developers a head start on the massive step change in computing power promised by quantum processing.

Based on ground-breaking research by UNSW Australia, the simulator gives developers and academics a platform to create quantum computing software before the hardware has been built. It offers a direct look into the computing environment of the future.

Its clear this revolutionary technology willtransform the world as we know it. Even though the machine is still a few years away, were making the required preparations for thismajor step change.Were not waiting, Mr Rajasingham says.

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Exante launches XAI, the world’s first altcoin fund – GlobeNewswire (press release)

August 25, 2017 | Author: admin

August 24, 2017 04:01 ET | Source: XNT Limited

EXANTE, the European fintech firm that made history in 2012 by launching the world's first Bitcoin hedge fund, is once again shaking up the investment industry. Today the Malta-headquartered company launched a dedicated altcoin index, XAI, which reflects the dynamics of the altcoin world (all cryptocurrencies minus Bitcoin). The XAI-Fund, which is available to EXANTE clients immediately, follows the index, to profit from the rise in prices of most altcoins in an easy safe and regulated way. The XAI index is made up of nearly all available popular alternative cryptocurrencies.

Anatoliy Knyazev, co-founder of EXANTE elaborated: 'Just a couple of weeks ago we launched separate funds for Ripple, Ethereum. Monero, Zcash and Litecoin - which was a huge success. We did notice an additional demand from clients who don't have the time or the technological means to deep-dive and analyze each currency separately - but do want to profit from the bullish altcoin markets. XAI is the solution to that problem.'

EXANTE clients can trade XAI fund shares are regular exchange traded instruments and they are accessible via the general trading platform. This platform gives traders direct access to more than 50 thousand financial products and nearly all financial markets. Trading in these products, is regulated by the MFSA and audited by KPMG, adding a layer of security normally missing from the unregulated cryptocurrency market.

Besides the aforementioned altcoins, the XAI-index also tracks Ethereum Classic. 'We decided to leave out Bitcoin,' said Knyazev, 'since it has less fat left on its bone. Ripple and Monero, for example, nearly doubled in value recently. That's what makes investing in the XAI fund so interesting and exciting.'

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ALTCOIN | Bitcoin Insider

August 23, 2017 | Author: admin

What Are Altcoins and Why Do They Matter?The word altcoin is an abbreviation of Bitcoin alternative, and thus describes every single cryptocurrency except for Bitcoin. Altcoins are referred to as Bitcoin alternatives because, at least to some extent, most altcoins hope to either replace or improve upon at least one Bitcoin component.

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