The visual data mining process, seen in the first part of this two-part article, revealed patterns in four dimensions between cumulative gas well production and independent variables. "Jump ...

The presence of hydrocarbons beneath earth’s surface produces some microbiological anomalies in soils and sediments. The detection of such microbial populations involves pure bio chemical processes ...

Determining and characterizing rock types is essential for every discipline and industry sector interested in earth sciences. The description of rock types is utilized at every stage, from the design ...

Mining centralization is probably one of the biggest challenges digital currencies face. Many of Bitcoin’s properties, such as censorship resistance and double-spend protection, rely to a large extent ...

A professor has helped create a powerful new algorithm that uncovers hidden patterns in complex networks, with potential uses in fraud detection, biology and knowledge discovery. University of ...

Could an IBM mainframe from the 1960s mine Bitcoin? The idea seemed crazy, so I decided to find out. I implemented the Bitcoin hash algorithm in assembly code for the IBM 1401 and tested it on a ...

Every 2016 blocks, or about every two weeks, bitcoin resets how tough it is for miners to mine. Early Friday morning, as expected, the bitcoin code automatically made it about 7.3% more difficult to ...

Quantum computers pose a genuine long-term risk to bitcoin, but current fears often conflate wallet vulnerabilities with largely impractical threats to mining. New research finds that a quantum 51% ...