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Co-founder of mining pool F2Pool has published a list of cryptos and types of miners, showing when coins become unprofitable to mine Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
He’s not flashy. He doesn’t post photographs of himself aboard yachts, arm-in-arm with scantily-clad groupies. A safe bet would be to assume he doesn’t own a sharkskin suit. Instead, his preference seems to be in the background, slightly obscured, faded almost. And yet he is arguably the most important man in cryptocurrency right now, and … Read more
Bitcoin mining is a very competitive industry. It has grown exponentially over the last few years. During the last nine months, there’s been a bunch of new entrants joining the mining rig manufacturing business like GMO Group, Halong Mining, and Ebang. Now there’s a new firm that has partnered with Samsung’s semiconductor foundry called, Innosilicon, … Read more
The scientific research of economist Alex de Vries on the Bitcoin network’s energy consumption shows that it will use .5 percent of energy globally by end of 2018 Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
ASIC miners are hugely profitable machines – provided you’re the manufacturer. That’s the view of Siacoin lead developer David Vorick, who’s published his thoughts on the monopoly enjoyed by manufacturers such as Bitmain and Halong Mining. In “The State of Cryptocurrency Mining”, Vorick also accuses manufacturers of using the machines themselves, before passing them on … Read more
With mass miners production leading coins are joining ASIC resistance campaign #ANALYSIS Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
On Friday, April 20th the mining operation Antpool explained that the public may have recently noticed a fraction of bitcoin cash being sent to an unspendable address every time Antpool mines a block. Antpool says that it is burning the funds sent to the “black hole address” voluntarily for the good of the BCH economy. … Read more
On April 3, 2018, the Chinese based firm Bitmain Technologies had launched it’s latest miner the Antminer E3. The new pre-manufactured mining rig processes the hashing algorithm Ethhash, the PoW consensus protocol for the Ethereum network. Lately, Bitmain has been releasing a bunch of new products including the Antminer X3 which mines Cryptonight algorithms for … Read more
Higher education is the industry more likely to crypto mine or be cryptojacked than four other surveyed industries combined, new report shows #NEWS Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
ASIC-resistant Monero releases code for update that will change its PoW to block any ASIC miners’ ability to mine the altcoin #NEWS Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
