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What are cryptocurrencies and how many people are actively using cryptocurrency today?

By ShamsDecember 23, 2017Economyadvent of cryptocurrency, alternative finance, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, cryptography, digital assets, garrick hileman

More than 3 million people (three times previous estimates) are estimated to be actively using cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, finds the first global cryptocurrency benchmarking study by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. (more…)

Skin colouring of rhesus macaque monkeys linked to breeding success

By Guest PostOctober 9, 2014Natureadvent of cryptocurrency, dana manalang, dinner in dark, garrick hileman, jerry paros, marine faults, potential mates, predict, pressure sensor, sexual selection, southeast asia, university of exeter, wechselspiel der mikroorganismen

Skin colour displayed amongst one species of monkey provides a key indicator of how successfully they will breed, a new study has shown.

The collaborative international research also shows that skin colouration in male and female rhesus macaques is an inherited quality – the first example of heritability for a sexually-selected trait to be described in any mammal. (more…)