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Warren is now calling for greater transparency from cryptocurrency miners due to concerns over the environmental impact of Bitcoin, the bellwether cryptocurrency origin »
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Even though the cryptocurrency market has experienced a rough year, miners are still staking their claims across many of America’s small towns. Some people are enthusiastic about a new ‘virtual gold rush,’ but countless others don’t believe the hype.
2018-8-27 16:00 | |
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Driven by cheap electricity prices and the potential for profit, cryptocurrency miners have expanded their horizons and set up operations in smaller localities across the world. Some residents embrace the potential for an economic boom.
2018-7-8 12:00 | |
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Quebec province has decided to raise the power tariff for cryptocurrency miners in the region. The policy will apply to all miners until the province finds an alternate solution to feed the power-hungry industry.
2018-6-22 21:43 | |
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Genesis Mining is the leading cloud mining provider in the cryptocurrency world, and they’re once again issuing Bitcoin mining contracts for miners who don’t have the time, expertise, or wherewithal to get their shovel dirty in the crypto sphere.
2018-6-22 17:30 | |
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Even though Canada has become a very important country for cryptocurrency mining, it seems things are changing behind the scenes. The Quebec provincial regulator has decided to allow utility providers to hike electricity prices for Bitcoin miners.
2018-6-22 05:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency mining can get rather costly, given its massive energy consumption. But the Southeastern European country of Kosovo could provide a solution to that dilemma. While Kosovo might be recognized as one of Europe’s poorer countries, it does have one of the cheapest electricity rates in the region.
2018-6-20 23:02 | |
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Energy-rich province raises stakes for crypto miners looking to set up base by imposing threefold increase in power rates.
2018-6-20 22:26 | |
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Quebec’s electric utility regulator Regie de l’energie, has increased the power prices for miners. The increase will be 3 times for new miners, while older miners have a breather until end of this year.
2018-6-20 17:48 | |
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In the case of currencies using the Equihash algorithm, it seems a large amount of the combined hashrate is provided by ASIC hardware. It’s a worrisome development which could introduce a lot more 51% attacks in the future.
2018-6-18 08:21 | |
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This week the Zcash Foundation and researchers from the University of Luxembourg have released a study that finds the presence of ASIC and FPGA miners may be controlling around 30 percent of the overall Equihash mining hashrate.
2018-6-16 22:45 | |
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According to data from EOS Authority, EOS has finally acquired the minimum votes required for its network to go live. After EOS failed to launch its platform on its projected launch date of June 2, a live-stream vote was called, where users voted “Go” to launch the blockchain network.
2018-6-15 03:10 | |
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Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse claims that “Bitcoin is controlled by China” through “four miners that control over 50%” of the leading cryptocurrency
2018-6-14 04:48 | |
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The shift has already started; finance is moving onto the blockchain, leveraging the decentralization and disintermediation benefits of the technology’s architecture.
2018-6-14 23:52 | |
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The CEO of the global settlement platform Ripple has once again addressed the current state of the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. Brad Garlinghouse spoke at the 2018 Stifel Cross Sector Insight Conference.
2018-6-13 21:00 | |
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Canada’s government has released draft regulations for “virtual currencies” with a consultation period of 90 days, saying that proposed regulatory changes could mean a loss of $60 million over 10 years for businesses that deal in cryptocurrencies but will improve Canada’s international reputation and make it easier for crypto businesses to deal overseas.
2018-6-13 20:24 | |
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Crypto currency trading has expanded exponentially over the past 18 months. Most of the notoriety followed a surge in prices in December of 2017. Crypto currencies focus on different needs including payments, as well as smart contracts allowing developers and miners to create and market products.
2018-6-13 15:42 | |
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Bitmain — the largest and most established manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining chips — is considering an IPO, or initial public offering. This could potentially open the company’s books to the world and allow the stock market to assign the company real-time value.
2018-6-11 01:34 | |
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Canada’s Quebec province has announced that it will be suspending all approvals for new digital currency-mining projects so officials can consider deeper restrictions and potential energy price hikes.
2018-6-11 03:08 | |
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Coinmint, a cloud mining service provider, has confirmed it will go ahead with its proposed plan to open a cryptocurrency mining plant in an abandoned smelter previously used by Alcoa, in Massena, New York.
2018-6-11 01:16 | |
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