Sentences with phrase «not by miners»

Ethereum history is written by developers and investors, not by miners now,» the representative said.

Not exact matches

The failed $ 6 - billion bid by China Minmetals (another state - owned enterprise) for Noranda, a Canadian copper and zinc miner, in 2004 had similar consequences: Canada did not see another major Chinese bid until this year.

News of Lucara's discovery of the Lesedi La Rona diamond (it was named in a national contest held in Botswana and translates into «our light» in the Tswana language) has helped invigorate a mining category that has languished in the wake of a global recession, not to mention a campaign by Blood Diamond star Leonardo DiCaprio to promote synthetic alternatives to alleviate working conditions of miners in Africa.

As CNBC noted, miners not only have to deal with increasing competition and a falling Bitcoin price — they're also being stung by another part of their revenue, transaction fees.

If miners choose to mine blocks that do not abide by these rules, then the full nodes will reject the block.

But the alarm isn't being sounded by a miner.

Because the Bitcoin code is not managed by a central authority, changes to the code require buy - in from developers and miners.

In POS, the mining of coins doesn't involve the use of expensive hardware and software products by miners.

Unfortunately, measures were not taken on time, and today we still have this artificial limit set in the Bitcoin Core client, which is the most widely used by nodes and miners.

The Northern Miner, Monday, December 15, 2008 Commentary: Survey Shows Miners Upbeat Over The Long Term By Andrew Pollard Special To The Northern Miner It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the mining industry is not immune to the goings on of the world financial markets.

As with other decentralized cryptographic tokens based on Ethereum and similar protocols, CTKs are susceptible to attacks by miners in the course of validating CTK transactions on the Ethereum blockchain, including, but not limited, to double - spend attacks, majority mining power attacks, and selfish - mining attacks.

Our web miner isn't blocked by Anti-Viruses or AdBlock and if it gets blocked eventually, we react and work hard to unblock it.

However, a developer or group of developers could potentially propose a modification to the Bitcoin Network that is not accepted by a vast majority of miners and users, but that is nonetheless accepted by a substantial population of participants in the Bitcoin Network.

Had not the greedy miner, backed by the only country that considers the slaughter of women and children in time of peace to be a legitimate tactic, and also the country that has created the most dictatorships in history, not run his thugs into independent countries, apartheid probably would not have happened.

During the Gold Rush they were used by gold miners and cowboys who were in need of a sturdy fabric that wouldn't become destroyed from their work.

I don't see how say a coal miner could bypass that by «selling it themselves»; it's not a realistic possibility.

Mr. Akwasi Kyei explained that operative word used by their flagbearer at the time was «to regularize» and does not mean President Akufo - Addo will allow these miners to cause destruction to vegetation.

It is our reckoning that the militarized approach adopted by His Excellency President Akufo Addo towards small scale mining leaves much to be desired of, considering the fact that small scale miners are hardworking citizens of Ghana whose contribution to the national economy can not be underestimated.

He recently became very popular when he led a media campaign against illegal mining in the country, forcing the NPP government's hand against galamsey, even though President Akufo - Addo had promised illegal miners, during the 2016 campaign, that galamsey would not be discouraged by an NPP government.

It also includes money to permanently extend health benefits for retired miners, a top priority of Senate Democrats facing reelection next year such as Sens. Joe ManchinJoseph (Joe) ManchinTrump to hold Nashville rally amid efforts to boost GOP Senate hopeful Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (W.Va.)

He observed the floods were caused by the obstruction of water by a man made dam constructed by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and not by the activities of illegal miners as earlier claimed.

Cameron attempts to shut up Dennis Skinner by saying: «I know he wanted miners to join the government, but not Lord Myners,» he says.

According to them, it appears they have been targeted by the ban which does not apply to large - scale miners despite the fact that both small and large - scale mining is regulated by the same law.

According to him, most of them were fined by the courts, a punishment he said was not «heavy» enough to deter other illegal miners from engaging in the act.

This is typical Rothschild: considering the bends not as a human ailment, first documented by a miner in 1841, but as a vertebrate's disease, one that can be tracked backward through more than 200 million years of mammalian evolution.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

Kearstin, silicosis is caused by the inhalation of silica particles in the lungs, it is not a cancer, this is from Wikipedia «Silicosis (previously miner's phthisis, grinder's asthma, potter's rot and other occupation - related names)[1] is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust, and is marked by inflammation and scarring in the form of nodular lesions in the upper lobes of the lungs.

An elderly miner played by Bill Nighy and a community leader played by Imelda Staunton (whom you remember as the abortionist in Mike Leigh's 2004 film «Vera Drake») add zest to the proceedings, which yield not only the new camaraderie between miners and «perverts» (as the gays call themselves to «own» the pejorative) but a new entente between one young man and his family.

Veterans Staunton, Nighy and Considine are ably supported by a fine cast, particularly Schnetzer (the button - eyed co-star of «The Book Thief» serves up revolutionary fervor and a Morrissey pompadour with equal conviction) and Jessica Gunning as a miner's wife who finds her voice fighting not just for the strike but also for LGSM's right to visibly rally for the workers» cause.

Indignation and antipathy by White laborers escalated until it erupted on September 2, 1885, when it was rumored that miners in Colorado were receiving a pay raise but those in Rock Springs, Wyoming were not.

Excellent article — it might be good to remember that in the Great Gold Rush the richest people by far were the ones selling the shovels, tents and equipment to the miners — not necessarily the miners themselves!

The next Fortnite challenge is following the treasure map found in Salty Springs and even though data miners usually had that one by Monday, this time around it didn't happen.

Each character class has their own unique ability and stats; the barbarian has a ton of health (but isn't really good at magic), The paladin is able to block enemy attacks by hitting triangle (which depletes his mana instead of health) and the miner (which I found myself using a lot) gets more money from chests, enemies, and furniture.

It shouldn't be forgotten that the tokens on the blockchain represent a real value, which is backed by the computing power of blockchain miners — unlike, for example, the dollar, which is no longer backed by gold.

«Gigantic» jade stone discovered in Burma Miners in Kachin state, Burma, have discovered an enormous jade stone weighing 175 tonnes and measuring 4.3 m by 5.8 m. Though not the largest jade ever discovered, the stone is valued at a reported $ 170 million.

But coal is not «cheap» for the Appalachian communities destroyed by mountaintop removal (see appvoices.org), nor for the miners killed or sickened because worker safety would be too costly for mine owners, nor for the areas made permanently dead from the mining practices, nor for the children poisoned by the toxic fumes of even the cleanest - burning coal plants, not to mention the entire planet, every species, every community, every neighborhood being damaged and degraded by the global warming coal burning causes.

Since they were presumably going to operate as base load as opposed to peaker power, it's likely they were intending to sign long term contracts so that their incremental addition to the demand for coal would be absorbed not by creating an additional demand on the spot market but by identifying a fixed source with a standing order and putting a few American miners to work on a full - time basis.

The human rights group Survival International says it has received reports, not yet independently verified, of a July massacre of a Yanomami Indian community by Brazilian gold miners in the Venezuelan portion of the Amazon rain forest along the border with Brazil.

Translation: «In medieval times people could not believe that the worsening climate and the advancing glaciers were happening naturally, and saw in them the punishment by a higher being for the godless manner, in which both mine owners and miners had behaved.

A CDP report asked if miners are «chasing fool's gold» (PDF), noting, «Some companies have not set targets to reduce their emissions over time, despite the fact that several are using internal carbon prices of up to $ 50 per ton, which could potentially reduce their profits by $ 10 billion a year.»

I don't know if Slawyers ever heard the wonderful comedy sketch by the» 60's English group Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller) in which a coal miner bemoans his fate, and opines: «Yes, I could have been a Judge but I never had the Latin.

While solicitors may argue at the SDT that the award is wrong, we are concerned that miners should not be disadvantaged by the delay the hearing inevitably creates.

The three «weightiest histories» found by full nodes are relayed to «farmers,» not miners.

He was inspired by Bail Bloc, a cryptocurrency miner developed by The New Inquiry that generates money for people who couldn't pay their court bail.

If we are unable to make a conclusive determination as to which Forked Network has the Greatest Cumulative Computational Difficulty, or if we, in consultation with the NYSDFS and our Licensing Partners, determine in good faith that Greatest Cumulative Computational Difficulty is not a reasonable criterion upon which to make a determination, we will support the Forked Network that we, in consultation with NYSDFS and our Licensing Partners, deem in good faith is most likely to be supported by the greatest number of users and miners and will call its Digital Asset «ether» and use the ticker «ETH.»

Interestingly enough, equipment costs are noted by Fundstrat as the leading expense for miners, not electricity costs as many would presume.

His stories for The Times have taken him to Greece, where he wrote about the country's growing ranks of nurses who aren't really nurses; Ukraine, where he covered the economic devastation caused by war; and Poland, where he followed so - called rathole miners into illegal coal pits.

Bitcoin Gold decentralizes mining by adopting a PoW algorithm, Equihash, which can not be run faster on the specialty equipment used for Bitcoin mining (ASIC miners.)

Miners even have the ability to not upgrade their software if they do not agree with a change made by the development team behind the current reference implementation of the protocol.

A good feature about the extension is that you can reverse the change i.e, if you do not mind lending your CPU for usage by the miner, you can remove their sites from the list of blocked domains.