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Gauntlet Attack Simulation and Analysis Found that Mina, the World s Lightest Blockchain, is Highly Resilient to Attacks
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Gauntlet s research report on Mina Protocol reveals that Mina s use of recursive zk-SNARKs improves scalability while retaining high resilience to 51% attacks
Gauntlet s report shows that not only have we improved scalability from legacy blockchains, but Mina is also highly attack-resistant, and launching an attack would be cost-prohibitive. SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) February 02, 2021
Gauntlet, a financial modeling platform for decentralized finance, released its research report on Mina, the world s lightest blockchain. The report explains that Mina s use of recursive zk-SNARKs reduces chain size to a constant 22kb, dramatically improving scalability from legacy blockchains. The question Gauntlet s analysis set out to answer was, does this technological improvement have security trad
When Cody Heller created “Dummy,” it had the ingredients of a hit show.
The comedy starred popular actress Anna Kendrick, and its story about a woman’s interactions with her boyfriend’s sex doll certainly had potential for water cooler talk.
But just six months after “Dummy” debuted on Quibi, the streaming service announced it was shutting down, causing more than 75 programs to go dark in December.
“The saddest part of it was, ‘Oh, no. Now “Dummy” is just gone disappeared,‘ Heller said. “There’s no way to watch it now, and it all happened so fast.”
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Now Heller has a second chance. On Friday, Roku said it had acquired the global rights to Quibi’s catalog. The shows which include the Emmy-winning drama “#FreeRayshawn” will later this year join the Roku Channel, a free, ad-supported streaming service.
The final chapter in defunct streaming service Quibi is coming to an end.
The Hollywood company, which shut down in December, sold the global distribution rights to more than 75 shows and documentaries to San Jose, California, streaming platform Roku for an undisclosed price.
The programs, which inc
As Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman prepared to launch their streaming service Quibi, the powerhouse executives pitched it as a happy home for filmmakers to bring their short-form shows and movies. The company was what every producer wants to see in Hollywood a big-spending new buyer hungry for fresh material.
Best of all, creators would be able to retain ownership of their projects, a potentially attractive deal given the demand for content in the streaming era.
“Our deal is one of the most attractive deals that anybody can [get] today,” Katzenberg said at a 2018 industry event.
But after Quibi’s sudden collapse, announced this week, showrunners and studios are left scrambling to figure out what to do with the productions they’ve spent months developing for the platform, which now do not have an obvious home.