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Bitcoin Miner’s Future Looks Bleak as Hash Rate Drops by 24% in Three Months
According to a report published by Bloomberg, November 26, 2018, the Bitcoin Network’s hash rate has dropped by a whopping 24 percent from its ATH in late August 2018. This, in turn, could force many small and medium scale bitcoin miners to abandon their mining operations due to the inability to breakeven costs. дальше »
2018-11-27 16:00 | |
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Hash Wars: Battle Comes to an End as BSV Plans to Add Replay Protection
It’s been less than two weeks since the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard fork and blockchain split that occurred on Nov. 15. Since then there’s been a lot of discussion concerning the hash war, with BSV and BCH miners acquiring blocks, gathering hashrate and accumulating proof of work. дальше »
2018-11-26 19:55 | |
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Bitcoin Price Crash Forces the Chinese Miners to Sell Their Equipment As Junk
It is not only the HODLers who are affected by the recent dip in the price of bitcoin, as a report by International Times, published November 23, 2018, posits that cryptocurrency miners in China are selling their expensive mining rigs at giveaway prices. дальше »
2018-11-25 00:00 | |
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Norway: Government Removes Electricity Subsidy for Bitcoin Mining Facilities
According to a report published by Norway’s largest distributed newspaper Aftenposten to November 21, 2018, the Scandinavian country’s government has decided to do away with electricity subsidy provided to bitcoin mining entities. дальше »
2018-11-24 15:00 | |
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Norway Ends Power Subsidies for Cryptocurrency Miners
Norwegian news outlet Aftenposten reported recently that the government wants cryptocurrency miners to have standard power tariffs instead of their previously subsidized rates. The revised power rates will be effective from the New Year, raising the power liability of the miners significantly and affecting their profitability. дальше »
2018-11-24 14:59 | |
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Bitcoin Mining No Longer Profitable for Some as Bitcoin Price Hits 13-Month Low
Bitcoin miners learned the hard way that Bitcoin mining is still a Wild West after Bitcoin’s price tanked to a new 13-month low last week. According to data from CoinMarketCap, Bitcoin’s price is now below $4,300, a far cry from its peak value of almost $20,000 in December last year. дальше »
2018-11-23 16:14 | |
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HIVE Blockchain Company Updates Crypto Cloud Mining Agreements, Appoints New Executives
HIVE Blockchain Technologies has revealed the progress made regarding the impending transition to HIVE 2. 0. The corporation operates several cryptocurrency mining centers. Firstly, HIVE issued updates concerning its ASIC miners which were launched at the end of September. дальше »
2018-11-28 18:06 | |
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HIVE Blockchain Company Updates Crypto Cloud Mining Agreements, Appoints New Executives
HIVE Blockchain Technologies has revealed the progress made regarding the impending transition to HIVE 2. 0. The corporation operates several cryptocurrency mining centers. Firstly, HIVE issued updates concerning its ASIC miners which were launched at the end of September. дальше »
2018-11-22 16:14 | |
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Hoskinson: Satoshi Did “An Amazing Thing”...But There Are Lessons to Learn
Charles Hoskinson is best known today as a co-founder of both Ethereum and IOHK, where he leads the research, design and development of Cardano. But before these projects, there was Bitcoin. дальше »
2018-11-20 23:08 | |
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Cryptocurrency Miners May Have to Pay More for Electricity in Chelan County
There is little doubt that cryptocurrency mining is extremely power intensive, with particular emphasis on coins that still rely on the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism. Recognizing this, Washington State’s Chelan County Public Utility District (PUD) has proposed a rate hike for mining enterprises within the region. дальше »
2018-11-18 17:00 | |
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NVIDIA Q3 2018 Earnings Report Solidifies Drying Crypto Mining Business
American technology company NVIDIA released its Q3 2018 earnings report on November 15, 2018, which states that the company’s graphics processing units (GPU) sales among cryptocurrency miners has plummeted a great deal since Q4 2017 cryptocurrency boom. дальше »
2018-11-18 15:00 | |
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One Day After the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork: Takeaways and Latest Developments
Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins: “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCH ABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV” (BCH SV). дальше »
2018-11-17 02:13 | |
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Nvidia Shares Fall 19% After Company Reveals Q4 Revenue Might Fall Short By $700M Due To Falling Crypto-related GPU Demand
Even without directly investing in cryptocurrencies, Nvidia was one of the biggest winners in 2017’s crypto boom. With last year’s soaring prices of digital currencies, the company’s GPUs were selling like hotcakes as crypto miners, who were busy building their mining rigs back then, snapped up stock worth $776 million in 2017 alone. дальше »
2018-11-16 16:09 | |
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Competing Bitcoin Cash Forks Show Differing Outcomes; Miners Support SV while Traders Side with ABC
Ahead of Bitcoin Cash’s (BCH) impending fork on November 15, 2018, miners maintaining the network may be taking two different paths for the protocol if data from Coin Dance is considered. Competition in Decentralization The two teams, Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV, led by Bitcoin Cash proponent Roger Ver and CoinGeek CEO Calvin Ayre respectively, are engaged in a fierce. дальше »
2018-11-15 08:00 | |
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Bitcoin Mining May Trigger the End of Paraguay’s Economic and Debt Crisis
Paraguay’s hydroelectric powered-towns, long associated as dugouts for drug cartels, smuggling, and ammunition rackets, are now home to miners connected in a sophisticated network circuitry to mine cryptocurrencies for their owners. дальше »
2018-11-12 16:00 | |
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Bitmain 7nm Antminer S15 and T15 now available for purchase
CryptoNinjas Bitmain, the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology company has announced that the newest Bitmain next-generation 7nm miners – Antminer S15 and Antminer T15, with two variations of each – are available for purchase as of. дальше »
2018-11-9 22:07 | |
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Bitmain’s New 7nm Chip Miners Are Available for Purchase Today
Chinese mining giant Bitmain's 7nm Bitcoin miners go on sale today, November 8, 2018. Announced in September of 2018, the miners allegedly offer considerably faster hash rates (though Bitmain didn’t disclose any specifications) and come in two separate Antminer models: the S15 and T15. дальше »
2018-11-9 18:52 | |
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Huobi Research: Blockchain Assets Remain Stable, Bitcoin Miners’ Fees Increase Slightly
The Huobi research weekly report for the period ending on Oct. 28th was published on Nov. 7th. Digital currencies remained relatively stable, and the market value dropped by 0. 99 percent. The prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum, two of the world’s biggest cryptocurrencies, fell by 0. дальше »
2018-11-8 16:29 | |
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Bitfury Secures $80M in Private Funding Round
Cryptocurrency mining firm Bitfury Group has closed a Series C, $80 million funding round led by EU-based Korelya Capital. The round also included crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital, Lian and Jabre Group, Dentsu Inc. дальше »
2018-11-7 01:06 | |
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BTCC Announces the "Indefinite" Closure of Its Mining Pool
BTCC will be shutting down its mining pool by the end of the month. According to a recent notice made by the Hong Kong-based exchange, BTCC will deactivate its mining pool servers on November 15, 2018, and cease all operations entirely come November 30. дальше »
2018-11-7 21:29 | |
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Sia Completes Hard Fork That ‘Bricks’ Miners As Disabled ASIC Crypto Miners Create Competitor
Sia network has finally completed its network hard fork. The distributed cloud storage blockchain was able to change its consensus rules in a way that no ASIC mining devices can be used to mine tokens from the network anymore. дальше »
2018-11-2 10:26 | |
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Op Ed: Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Is Neither Frivolous Nor Excessive
As the CEO of Hut 8, one of North America’s largest cryptocurrency miners and the world’s largest publicly traded cryptocurrency miner, I’m often asked questions about energy consumption in the mining of cryptocurrency. дальше »
2018-11-1 23:35 | |
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J.P. Morgan to Use Ethereum-Based Quorum for Tokenizing Gold Bars in Pilot Experiment
J. P. Morgan’s Quorum blockchain, an enterprise-grade DLT solution built on Ethereum, is being deployed for tokenizing traditional assets to test the robustness of blockchain technology, reported Financial Review on Oct. дальше »
2018-10-31 22:00 | |
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Have Ethereum Miners Been Losing Money Since August?
Ethereum miners may not be having a good time. Though the price of the Ether coin has stabilized at around $200 and it continues to be the second largest cryptocurrency in the world by market cap, miners may not be winners in this case. дальше »
2018-10-29 21:29 | |
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De Beers secures world’s biggest diamond miners for blockchain pilot
De Beers, the world’s leading diamond producer by gem value, has just announced a deal with Alrosa, perhaps the most critical partner in its quest to port the entire diamond industry to the blockchain. дальше »
2018-10-29 19:46 | |
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How to Mine Vertcoin (VTC) on a Windows Laptop
Vertcoin (VTC) is an older cryptocurrency project that has been around from a time when airdrops and ICOs were almost unheard of. Launched in 2014, Vertcoin was initially touted by many as a significant challenger to the dominance of bitcoin. дальше »
2018-10-29 12:00 | |
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New York’s Plattsburg Pushing for Crypto Mining Regulations
Access to cheap electricity and a relatively cooler climate makes a city or county a more preferred location for cryptocurrency miners. The power-heavy industry needs electricity not only to power its miners but also to keep facilities cool. дальше »
2018-10-28 16:29 | |
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IOTA Explains Node Behavior and Free Transactions
The IOTA Foundation recently published a blog titled “IOTA and Freedom” on its Medium page which provided information on node behavior in its ecosystem. It is the first among a series of blog posts that will focus on the miner-less infrastructure of the system. дальше »
2018-10-28 23:04 | |
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CoinGeek’s Public Mining Pool Opens for Bitcoin Miners
SVPool, the public mining pool for miners on the Bitcoin BCH network, announced that it has opened for business on Monday, Oct. 22. The public pool is managed by CoinGeek Mining and claims to be following the original vision of Satoshi Nakamoto, which helps miners in generating long-term revenue. дальше »
2018-10-24 14:59 | |
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Op Ed: In Defense of Bitcoin: A Response to Nouriel Roubini
Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it. дальше »
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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Sia Blockchain Network Shares New Hard Fork Code to Ban Crypto ASIC Miners
Sia blockchain network released a formula code for an imminent hard fork, which will block miners from using hardware produced by Bitmain and other manufacturers. CEO and founder of Nebulous David Vorick announced that it has released a code version 1. дальше »
2018-10-22 19:17 | |
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RecordsKeeper ICO
RecordsKeeper is an open-source public platform for Record Keeping & Data Security. RecordsKeeper technology is currently live & available for production use. RecordsKeeper Mainnet & Testnet users can publish the key-value pairs of any kind of data records of up to 8MB in size per transaction in RecordsKeeper Public Blockchain & query the records like NoSQL Database using published record key or transaction id. дальше »
2018-10-22 17:05 | |
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What is a GPU and What Role Does It Play in Mining Cryptocurrencies?
By Patricia Bajis Ever since 2009, coders, developers and your computer-savvy friends have been mining cryptocurrencies in order to gain the currency themselves. With the cap of the amount of Bitcoin in the world being 21 million, miners are seeing diminishing returns on their work as we approach the cap and more people join in […] What is a GPU and What Role Does It Play in Mining Cryptocurrencies? was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. дальше »
2018-10-20 13:08 | |
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Circulor Partners with Rwanda To Trace Tantalum Mined in the Country
Circulor is partnering with the Rwandan Government to track tantalum, a precious metal used in consumer electronics. According to Circulor’s post released on October 16, 2018, the project which is currently live, will help miners in Rwanda follow guidelines laid out in international agreements to eventually eradicate any source of conflict Tantalum from the supply chain. дальше »
2018-10-19 19:00 | |
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Chinese Bitcoin Mining Equipment Manufacturers Suffer Setback as Trump Increases Tariffs
Bitmain’s $3 billion initial public offering (IPO), as well as that of other Chinese bitcoin mining equipment manufacturers such as Canaan and Ebang, may be adversely affected by the June categorization of the firm’s Antminer S9 ASICs miners as “electrical machinery apparatus. дальше »
2018-10-19 05:00 | |
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Everything You Need to Know About Monero’s Upcoming “Beryllium Bullet” Hard Fork
Monero announced to miners and users alike the scheduled hard fork for October 18, 2018, in a blog post made October 11, 2018, listing the details of the “Beryllium Bullet” release. A whole slew of updates is announced with some of the major ones being Bulletproofs enabled for reduced transaction size and an updated PoW algorithm to be less ASIC. дальше »
2018-10-18 15:00 | |
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Why Are Miners Mining “Empty Blocks” and What Affect Does It Have on Blockchain Networks?
In early-October 2018, reports detailing a rise in the number of empty blocks on the Ethereum blockchain came to light. Using data from the Ethereum network, data analytics firms, as well as media companies were able to confirm the presence of a disproportionately high number of blocks devoid of any data related to transactions sent over the network. дальше »
2018-10-18 17:00 | |
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SV Pool Mines Its First Block as November’s Bitcoin Cash Fork Approaches
On Wednesday, Oct. 10, the mining operation SV Pool mined its first Bitcoin Cash block. The pool operators led by the blockchain firms Nchain and Coingeek say that hundreds of miners from all around the world have signed up to mine with the pool. дальше »
2018-10-12 04:30 | |
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Crypto Mining Not as Profitable Anymore: New Diar Report
Weekly crypto outlet Diar’s new report is proving to be disappointing for the crypto community. The Oct. 8 report suggests that Bitcoin miners are now seeing fewer profits. It contradicts the fact that Bitcoin miners’ revenues for the first half of 2018 have already gone past the 2017 numbers. дальше »
2018-10-11 17:49 | |
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Report Links 74% of Bitcoin Mining to China, Sees Threat to Network
Bitcoin, the world’s most sought-after cryptocurrency, could be at the wish and whim of Asia’s economic giant. A recent study titled “The Looming Threat of China: An Analysis of Chinese Influence on Bitcoin,” jointly researched by Princeton University and Florida International University researchers, suggests China’s mining scene has an overwhelming influence over Bitcoin, something that could invite network manipulation. дальше »
2018-10-11 00:29 | |
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Blockstream’s Liquid Network for “High Value” Bitcoin Payments Is Live
The Liquid Network is up and running. More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada's Government Forum in Ottawa, Blockstream’s bitcoin scaling solution made its public debut on October 10, 2018, after going live among its partners on September 27. дальше »
2018-10-11 20:44 | |
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Bitcoin Mining in China is 30 Times More Profitable EVEN IN A BEAR MARKET
Theoretically, cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash for example are meant to be decentralized in line with the dictates of blockchain. But, apparently, this has not been the case. Decentralization in crypto is a myth. дальше »
2018-10-10 12:16 | |
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Bitcoin miners hit $4.7B in revenue this year, but its becoming unprofitable
Bitcoin miners have raised over $4. 7 billion in revenue so far this year, but rising electricity prices have rendered cryptocurrency mining almost completely unprofitable, even for the world’s biggest pools. дальше »
2018-10-9 15:33 | |
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Mining empty blocks is spiking on Ethereum – that could be a problem
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. дальше »
2018-10-8 22:34 | |
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Crypto Mining Continues to Rise in Q2, Claims McAfee Quarterly Threat Report
In their latest Quarterly Threat Report, McAfee Labs suggests that the crypto craze isn’t going to end anytime soon. The consistent rise in crypto mining activities during the second quarter of 2018 shows that falling crypto prices do not deter the miners who continue to reap profits. дальше »
2018-10-7 17:59 | |
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Federal Election Committee Asked to Consider Crypto Mining for Political Contributions
OsiaNetwork LLC has reached out to the Federal Election Committee (FEC) in the hopes that it will allow computer sharing for crypto mining for campaign donations. Osia says it would like to be the platform in which volunteers share their computer power to mine cryptocurrencies, which are then donated to political campaigns of their choice. дальше »
2018-10-5 23:57 | |
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