The word cryptography evokes images of spies, secret messages and covert agencies. But what is cryptography? Cryptography is the method of scrambling data so that it looks.
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With a jump of more than 350% in its price this year, Ethereum has outperformed major cryptocurrencies, bolstered by the rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, like liquidity aggregators and decentralized exchanges. These projects brought in viable use cases that could extend to everything from insurance to decentralized trading and loans to yield farming. However, the increasingly DeFi protocols relying on Ethereum contracts made the network a lot busier, which led to higher gas fees for making transactions. Though ETH 1.0 transition to ETH 2.0 is in progress, the network is far from improving issues like scalability, speed, and gas fees.
The Algorithm Series: Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Anytime I write about digital rights management (DRM), I m reminded that the opinions around codec or format wars are simple skirmishes compared to the strong feelings the term DRM evokes. On the one hand, there s the fact that many consumers despise DRM. And not just consumers who are bent on piracy. During my international travels, I can t tell you the number of complaints I ve overheard from parents who download several movies for their children to watch during a long-haul flight, only to have geofencing (restrictions around geographies), 24-hour time constraints, or some other form of rights management impede their ability to pacify their children.
The Algorithm Series: Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Anytime I write about digital rights management (DRM), I m reminded that the opinions around codec or format wars are simple skirmishes compared to the strong feelings the term DRM evokes. On the one hand, there s the fact that many consumers despise DRM. And not just consumers who are bent on piracy. During my international travels, I can t tell you the number of complaints I ve overheard from parents who download several movies for their children to watch during a long-haul flight, only to have geofencing (restrictions around geographies), 24-hour time constraints, or some other form of rights management impede their ability to pacify their children.