Norton Crypto 用電腦剩餘資源挖礦 雲端電子貨幣錢包防止惡意軟件

Norton Crypto 用電腦剩餘資源挖礦 雲端電子貨幣錢包防止惡意軟件

Norton 作為知名防毒軟件公司，近日發佈表示即將推出 Norton Crypto，為其消費者提供了一種安全、可靠的方式來成為礦工挖掘以太坊（Ethereum）。而且推出 Norton Crypto Wallet 讓用戶將電子貨幣儲存到雲端上。

知名防毒軟件公司 NortonLifeLock 今天宣布推出 Norton Crypto，並表示這是一項新功能，將有效為用戶提供安全以及輕鬆的方式，善用未使用的運算空間成為礦工挖掘以太坊（Ethereum），並將其轉化為一個經常性收入來源。另外，Norton 亦開設一個新的電子錢包服務 Norton Crypto Wallet，讓用戶將挖礦所得儲存到雲端，從而避免佔用硬碟空間又或者接觸未經審查代碼，甚至因此而被植入惡意軟件。

Norton 表示目前已選定 Norton 360 客戶為第一批受邀可以參與以太坊挖礦計劃的成員，而 Norton Crypto 預計將於未來幾週內向所有 Norton 360 客戶提供。但有報道指出，此舉或將造就成千上萬的新礦工，或加重耗電量，對環境或造成巨大影響。而且有人指，長期挖礦將會對電腦的 GPU 造成巨大負擔。

資料來源：Norton

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Opinion: Everyone you know is talking about crypto. Uh oh

Paul R. La Monica is a digital correspondent for CNN Business. He writes daily about the markets and blue chip companies and also appears regularly on CNNI’s business programs. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.

“What do you think about bitcoin?”

This is often the first question I’m asked by friends and family members whenever I bring up my job. And any time I introduce myself to someone new and tell them what I do, the conversation quickly turns to cryptocurrencies, especiallyCEO Elon Musk and his obsession with dogecoin

I’ve had doctors, dental hygienists, doormen in my building and parents of kids on my son’s soccer and baseball teams all grill me about crypto and share their stories of trading bitcoin, ethereum and other more obscure digital currencies.

I’m not alone.

“I was talking to a school traffic cop recently and he started to go on about buying dogecoin,” Dan Pipitone, co-founder of brokerage firm TradeZero America, recently told me.

“There is definitely no lack of interest, especially once people make a little bit of money. For a lot of new investors, it’s just been a ride up,” Pipitone added.

But there are some investors who have a lot more than a couple of Benjamins at stake. That’s troubling because what’s going on with cryptos is a speculative mania, the likes of which we haven’t really seen since the late 1990s with tech stocks.

Now don’t get me wrong: It’s a good thing for people to be taking charge of their finances and investing for the future. It’s also okay to have some proverbial “fun money” in crypto assets.

A mom of one of my younger son’s friends recently confessed to me that she was slightly annoyed that she bought Coinbase stock when it was trading in the $300s. I gasped. The stock is currently hovering around the mid-$230s. She then admitted that she owned only one share. Whew!

But just like we saw during the late 1990s dot-com/Nasdaq bubble, there are too many people who may not really realize the risks they are taking and are getting in over their heads.

Tech stocks came tumbling down and many didn’t survive

I’ve been covering the markets as a financial journalist since 1995. Back then, I also got peppered with investing and trading queries by friends and random people such as cab drivers, barbers and bartenders.

Qualcomm QCOM Cisco CSCO They wanted to know aboutand hot initial public offerings of the day. Remember the old search engine Ask Jeeves? Its shares soared 364% on their first day of trading in July 1999!

Here’s the thing though. The bubble eventually burst. Spectacularly. The Nasdaq hit a record high of above 5,000 in March 2000 and didn’t get back there until March 2015.

IAC IAC It took 20 years for Qualcomm shares to return to their levels from late 1999. Cisco is still trading below its all-time highs from 2000. And Ask Jeeves? It’s now a tiny part of Barry Diller’s, which ditched the Jeeves butler logo and name and rebranded the site simply as Ask.com.

And Ask is one of the lucky dot coms. Scores of other tech startups crashed and burned. RIP to Webvan, eToys and theglobe.com. Not to mention Pets.com and its once ubiquitous sock puppet.

Amazon AMZN In other words, not every e-commerce or tech stock from 20 years ago matured likedid.

Alibaba BABA Spotify SPOT Uber UBER “Crypto is just like the internet bubble. 100 percent. There will be winners but most of them will be losers. It’s really hard to make money for the long term,” said Mitchell Green, founding partner of Lead Edge Capital, a venture capital firm that invested inand

“When I have friends who do not work in financial services tell me it’s easy to make money, then that’s a bubble. It won’t end well,” Green told me. “People say it’s different this time. No, it isn’t. Many cryptos may go up like an escalator and down like a rock.”

Investors have gotten a taste of how volatile cryptos can be after bitcoin suffered its worst monthly drop in a decade last month.

Some long-term crypto bulls think that makes this a buying opportunity.

“Cryptos are here to stay. I do think the sector has grown up and transitioned to a wider audience,” said Jeremy Welch, chief product officer at Kraken, a cryptocurrency exchange.

But that’s precisely my point. You should never invest in something just because a friend at a party is touting it or you see stories about how much the price has gone up.

“People have to be okay with missing out,” said Ron L. Brown, president of R.L. Brown Wealth Management, when I asked him what he advises his clients, many of whom are professional athletes, if they want to buy cryptocurrencies.

“This is more like Vegas as opposed to investing,” Brown said.

Polygon becomes part of Bitwise 10 Large Cap Crypto Index

NEW DELHI: Homegrown crypto startup, Polygon, has become part of the Bitwise 10 Large Cap Crypto Index (BITX), which tracks the returns of the 10 largest crypto assets, as measured and weighted by free-float market capitalisation. Bitwise Asset Management, which manages the index, is a crypto-specialist asset manager, with assets under management (AUM) worth $1.5 billion.

As part of the May month-end index reconstitution process, Polygon (formerly Matic) entered the index, which also constitutes Bitcoin, Ethereum, Chainlink, Bitcoin cash and Litecoin, among other crypto assets. Polygon replaced crypto token Aave in the May reconstitution and rebalancing of the index.

Index constituents are screened every month for liquidity, custody, and other risks, and rebalanced.

The current index value stands at 46,473 with a market capitalisation of $1.12 trillion. The index has surged 64.79% on a year-to-date basis against a 29.87% rise in Bitcoin.

In recent times the demand for layer 2 scaling solution is attracting capital inflows, which is, in turn, has been fueling the rise in Matic tokens, which is the native cryptocurrency of Polygon.

Polygon has a 1.03% weightage in the Bitwise 10 Large Cap Crypto Index, while Bitcoin has a weight of 63.92% and Ethereum 28.85%.

The Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund, available to pre-selected investors and institutions, seeks to track the Bitwise 10 Large Cap Crypto Index. The AUM of the fund is $817 million and has delivered 369% returns in the past year.

Polygon, which was co-founded in 2017 by three Indian software engineers — Jaynti Kanani, Sandeep Nailwal, and Anurag Arjun, is a layer 2 Ethereum scaling solution. The company aims to improve the usability and convenience of the current decentralized ecosystem.

The rise in Matic’s price has turned its co-founders into India’s first crypto billionaires, part of it stemming from their current stakes in the cryptocurrency at around 4-5%. Billionaire investor Mark Cuban of Shark Tank fame, who is also the owner of NBA team Dallas Mavericks, recently invested an undisclosed sum into Polygon.

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