2019-11-5 01:45 |
Aragon votes against Ethereum changing its proof-of-work mining algorithm before Ethereum 2.0
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The Ethereum Merge could force many crypto miners to give up and abandon their expensive mining rigs amid a race to the bottom for profits.
2022-9-7 07:42 | |
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Bitfly, the firm behind Ethereum’s most significant mining pool Ethermine has revealed in a recent blog post that it will be ceasing all Ethereum Proof-of-Work (PoW) mining operations following The Merge.
2022-8-25 19:00 | |
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The response comes after researchers in Israel alleged the mining pool has been manipulating Ethereum block timestamps to obtain higher mining rewards.
2022-8-10 05:43 | |
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Data shows the Ethereum mining hashrate has declined over 10% in the last month as miner profitability has dropped. Ethereum Mining Hashrate Takes A Dip, Now Only Around 862 TH/s As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, factors like the declining ETH price and the coming merge is forcing some miners to […]
2022-6-25 22:00 | |
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Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining pool by hashrate, included Russia and Belarus in the list of forbidden countries.
2022-3-10 20:06 | |
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A solo Ethereum miner has just gotten what could be described as the lucky break of a lifetime after mining a single ethereum block that netted them a reward that ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
2022-1-20 20:00 | |
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As Ethereum’s transition to EIP-1559 and Ethereum 2.0 loom ever closer, discussions over the future of GPU mining have swept over the crypto mining community. If EIP-1559 fails to bring down Ethereum’s obscenely high transaction costs and thus drive Ethereum mining obsolete, the shift to proof-of-stake certainly will. While these thoughts are a dime a […]
2021-5-28 12:37 | |
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In a bid to save the Ethereum mining community, a group known as the Ethereum Genesys Foundation (EGF) successfully hard forked the chain to continue Proof-of-Work (PoW) mining. With the ETH 2. 0 upgrade well underway, the switch to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) would render miners redundant.
2021-5-1 15:20 | |
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The largest Bitcoin mining rigs manufacturer, Bitmain, announces a new proof-of-work mining rig for Ethereum. This follows accelerated plans by developers to launch Ethereum 2. 0, which will use a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism.
2021-4-29 21:30 | |
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The problems with Ethereum Classic (ETC) mining on Antminer E3 ASICs were discovered almost one month ago. Can the new Bitmain firmware release save the situation?
2020-3-25 16:05 | |
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Ethereum core developers reaffirmed during a meeting today that mining algorithm change "ProgPoW" would be added to a coming hard fork.
2019-3-15 22:10 | |
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Ethereum’s Constantinople hard fork scheduled to take place later in the month will come with some irreversible repercussions. According to Han Yoon, the chief executive of Lunar Digital Assets, Ethereum mining won’t be the same again – not due to the falling profit margin, but because of the expected end of Ethereum mining. Just published […]
2019-1-10 21:06 | |
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On November 14, 2018, quantitative trading firm Susquehanna published a report on the state of the digital currency mining sector. More specifically, the report focused on the Ethereum network and its steep decline in profitability.
2018-11-27 18:00 | |
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It is not uncommon for students to get crafty when they aim to mine cryptocurrencies. Some use the “free” electricity of their dorm to mine Ethereum and other altcoins. In China, one entire school seemingly had a secret Ethereum mining operation going for quite some time.
2018-11-14 04:22 | |
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Mining crypto is all about the money so why would miners leave transaction fee rewards on the table? The number of mined empty blocks has been increasing on the Ethereum blockchain at a steep rate – a 637% increase since September.
2018-10-8 22:34 | |
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Chen Min, the former chief chip maker at Bitcoin mining chip developer Canaan Creative, is turning her attention to Ethereum. Announcing her venture at the Ethereum Classic Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Chen’s new company, Linzhi, will focus on building cryptocurrency mining devices, and its first official products are a series of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miners designed specifically for Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.
2018-9-15 01:22 | |
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The Bitcoin mining company expands to the Ethereum network.
2018-8-31 00:43 | |
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BTC.com will now offer ethereum and ethereum classic mining pools, as well as a block explorer, the company announced Thursday.
2018-8-30 15:00 | |
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One of the richest man on earth, with an estimated net worth of $52 billion, is apparently mining ethereum according to Michael del Castillo reporting from the Blockchain Summit currently ongoing at Sir.
2018-7-8 19:08 | |
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Chinese cryptocurrency exchange BTCC has announced the official relaunch of its trading platform, while also suggesting that it will eventually offer its own token.
2018-7-3 17:25 | |
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MBA team mines Ethereum Mining The Sacramento Kings are now mining Ethereum, the team announced on Wednesday. Also read: Coinbase Founder Launches Cryptocurrency Fueled Charity ‘Givecrypto’ Tech-Savvy MBA Team Enters the Crypto Space The American basketball team the Sacramento Kings reportedly started mining ether three weeks ago using Nvidia mining rigs. The owner of the NBA
2018-6-29 12:14 | |
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The Sacramento Kings are now mining Ethereum, the team announced on Wednesday. They are the first sports team entering the crypto space, and in doing so are introducing crypto to sports fans and offering a local group that supports black communities to buy and sell ether.
2018-6-29 10:55 | |
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Sacramento Kings, the American professional basketball team on Wednesday announced a charitable programme called “MiningForGood”. The team started mining using “Nvidia”- the mining rigs, bought from a partnership with the MiningStore.
2018-6-29 21:05 | |
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Chinese police have arrested a suspect on charges of alleged power theft, seizing 200 bitcoin and ethereum mining computers in the process.
2018-6-25 03:00 | |
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A Chinese man has found himself in police custody after attempting to steal electricity to fund his unprofitable Bitcoin mining operation, local media outlet Xinhua reports June 22. The suspect, known only by his surname Ma, allegedly mined Bitcoin and Ethereum on two hundred computers in the country’s Anhui province, all of which have been
2018-6-22 19:06 | |
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Mining firm and blockchain software service company Bitfury wants to expedite blockchain development for traditional enterprise and business. Working toward this goal, the company announced today that it’s introducing Java binding for its blockchain service, Exonum.
2018-6-20 20:13 | |
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It’s been a turbulent time for the cryptocurrency markets, so now is a good time to reflect on how and why we got here in the first place. First, an op ed makes the ideological case for Bitcoin.
2018-6-16 04:35 | |
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Jeff Garzik first tuned the world into his latest venture in the fall of 2017. The Bloq co-founder unveiled Metronome (MET), a cryptocurrency he founded alongside Matthew Roszak, at the Las Vegas Money 20/20 conference in late October, and the project caught the attention of Bloomberg and Fortune at the time.
2018-6-16 23:51 | |
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Coinbase dominated headlines across the space this week with a pair of significant developments. The San Francisco–based exchange announced on Monday, June 11, its intention to add Ethereum Classic to its trading platform and then quickly followed the news on Tuesday with the official opening of a crypto index fund.
2018-6-14 01:32 | |
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According to Chinese internet security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab, hackers have stolen $20 million in ether from poorly configured Ethereum mining rigs and third-party applications. Experts at the firm say the cyber-attacks target unsecured Ethereum nodes on the Internet.
2018-6-12 19:00 | |
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With the creation of Bitcoin and its blockchain, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced an entirely new practical application for cryptography, unearthing an unexplored area for computer science and technological development.
2018-6-11 17:04 | |
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Optimism (OP) surged after Binance announced upgrade and hard fork support Optimism (OP) price rose by more than 5% on Dec. 27, breaking to intraday highs of $1. 89. The gains for the native token of the layer-2 blockchain network came as the community reacted to positive news.
Ethereum has launched the “short-lived” Mekong testnet to test key upgrades for the upcoming Pectra fork. The Ethereum ecosystem is taking another step toward the Pectra fork with the launch of the Mekong testnet, a short-lived environment designed to test…
Cardano has completed its Chang upgrade, marking the switch to a decentralized governance system that allows ADA holders to have a say in the network’s future direction. Named after Chinese mathematician Ch’ang Shou, the upgrade was completed at block 10764778…
Binance has announced that it will support Cardano’s upcoming network upgrade and hard fork. Cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance disclosed its readiness to support Cardano (ADA) for its Chang hard fork in an announcement on Aug. 30. Ahead of the hard…
The EOF proposal is a series of smaller EIPs that include measures aimed at updating and improving the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), the programming environment that executes smart contracts on the blockchain, and arguably Ethereum’s secret sauce that made it different from Bitcoin and other early distributed networks at the time it launched in 2015.
A blockchain developer is set to fork the BRC-20 token standard to introduce decentralized finance capabilities to the Bitcoin network. A blockchain developer under the alias Mikael.btc, best known as the creator of the BRC-100 token standard, wants to fork…
ADA is currently eyeing an inverted hammer formation on its weekly chart, but a significant sell wall threatens a roadblock to any potential rally. Cardano (ADA) has continued to witness a downward push following its 8% collapse last week. However,…