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Bitcoin's blockchain offers two development paths: native Bitcoin assets built directly on Layer 1, and alternative solutions like Layer 2s or sidechains. While L2s offer speed and scalability, native Bitcoin assets provide better security, traceability, and regulatory compliance. Tap Protocol demonstrates this by enabling smart contracts directly on Bitcoin's blockchain without requiring L2 solutions, potentially marking a significant advancement in Bitcoin's ecosystem.

Building a smart contract designed to tap into Chainlink's Price Feeds on Rootstock to get real-world asset prices.

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, November 18, 2024? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, A Weird Monolith was Found in the Utah Desert in 2020, NASA launched the MAVEN probe to Mars in 2013, Disney’s Steamboat Willie was released in 1928,...

PyATS is a powerful tool that is essential for modern networking. Originally developed by Cisco, it is used internally to conduct millions of tests each month. While some core components of the tool are proprietary, it was made publicly available in 2017. In this brief introduction, you'll discover pyATS through insightful explanations.

Multimodal AI, which processes diverse data types like text, images, and audio, represents a major advancement in AI, promising transformative impacts on industries such as healthcare, robotics, and media. Platforms like Encord are addressing data management complexities, making the development of multimodal systems more efficient and unified.

NotebookLM is an AI-powered tool designed to help users simplify, organize, and transform their notes. One of its standout features is the ability to convert text into audio. The AI added natural pacing, emphasis, and tone, making the audio feel like a professionally narrated podcast.

Akasha Indream, founder of one of Telegram’s first womxn in blockchain groups, WIBI.io, speaks out on how we can engineer crypto to be inclusive by design. 

If implemented correctly, the push to embrace AI and emerging technologies could drive a new golden age for hospitality stocks on Wall Street.

Dremio Auto-Ingest is a game-changing feature that simplifies the process of loading data into Apache Iceberg tables.

MEXC is one of the world’s leading digital asset exchange platforms with over 10 million users across 170 countries. MEXC has partnered with HackerNoon for the Business Blogging Program, achieving over 4 days of reading time and 9700+ total views.

While companies rush to adopt generative AI, predictive AI remains a reliable and valuable technology. Unlike generative AI's broad, creative capabilities, predictive AI excels at specific tasks using structured data, offers better explainability, and has proven ROI. Rather than choosing between the two, businesses should leverage both technologies' strengths: predictive AI for data-driven forecasting and decision-making, and generative AI for content creation and natural...

Watched "The Ben and Marc Show" where Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz discuss how Trump's victory could revolutionize tech startups. They highlighted past challenges from stifling regulations, especially in crypto, and emphasized supporting innovation in AI and energy without excessive regulation.

MicroStrategy and El Salvador are using straightforward strategies to accumulate Bitcoin, inspiring potential institutional and governmental adoption. Proposals like a U.S. Bitcoin reserve could significantly impact BTC prices, driving them to new heights.

Large Language Models running on the GPT technology may be nearing a plateau in their development. This goes against all the Ray Kurzweilian hype by Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever as seen in the video. The problem, she explains, is the **Decoupling of Scales**

The Bitcoin Standard is the solution for forever wars. But, how far away is it in the future? In the meantime, we have to deal with our deeply flawed human nature.

CHARLESTOWN, Saint Kitts and Nevis, November 18th, 2024/Chainwire/--WeFi, the next-generation financial platform dedicated to reimagining access to global financial tools, successfully holded the highly anticipated Token Generation Event for its native $WFI token on Friday, November 15th. Following the TGE, $WFI deb...

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, November 17, 2024? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Lunokhod 1: 1st Successful Lunar Rover Landed in 1970, First COVID-19 case traced back to China in 2019, Film Director Martin Scorsese Was Born in 19...

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, November 16, 2024? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, John Ambrose Fleming received a patent for the thermionic valve in 1904, NASA launched Skylab 4 in 1973, NASA launched Artemis 1 in 2022, and we pres...

Use images to spruce up your article and keep your readers engaged. If you’re talking about deeply complicated stuff, it might be nice to add some graphs or statistics to your article. If your article is lengthy and is split up into sections, adding images to signify the beginning of a part could be a good idea.

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. Unmasking VEILDrive: Threat Actors Exploit Microsoft Services for Command & Control By @hunters [ 30 Min read ] Discover ho...

Security is not an add-on to thoroughly flushed-out Generative AI infrastructure. It should be weaved in and through the entire infrastructure