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Australia’s DC Two & D Coin to Create Solar-Powered Bitcoin Mining Farm Built by Hadouken

Australia Could Have The First Solar-Powered Bitcoin Mining Farm In A Coal Town A data center operator from Australia and its crypto subsidiary are developing a first, a Bitcoin mining farm that uses solar power to work, making it one of the most interesting ways to use renewable energy for Bitcoin mining. DC Two, a […] дальше »

2018-8-10 23:57


DMG Blockchain Builds Electrical Substation to Power Cryptocurrency Mining Operations

Cryptocurrency mining requires a lot of electricity and a lot of money. In recent times, miners have sought access to cheap and accessible electricity to accelerate operations. In this vein, a Canadian company is attempting to build an electrical substation to power its cryptocurrency mining enterprise. дальше »

2018-8-3 20:07


Steam removes controversial game accused of mining cryptocurrency

Steam has removed “trivial platformer” game Abstractism from its store following accusations that the game is surreptitiously stealing users’ computing power to mine cryptocurrency. “We have removed Abstractism and banned its developer from Steam for shipping unauthorized code, trolling with content, and scamming customers with deceptive in-game items,” Doug Lombardi, VP of Marketing at Steam, told Hard Fork in an email. дальше »

2018-7-31 12:50


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Power Grid Operators Are Tracking Down Bitcoin Mining Electricity Thieves

Crypto mining is one of the world’s largest sources of energy consumption. Typically, you pay money for electricity, and this is an accepted cost of mining. But you can make even more money through crypto mining when you steal electricity – and that’s what people around the world have started to do. Approximately $90 billion […] дальше »

2018-7-31 08:56


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Mining Round-Up: AMD GPU Sales Decline, Hut 8 Claims to be Largest Miner in Canada

In recent mining news, AMD has reported declining sales of mining hardware during the second quarter of 2018, Hut 8 has claimed to now comprise the largest bitcoin mining company in Canada by operating power following the construction of its second facility, and Chinese authorities have shut down what they have described as “illegal” mining […] The post Mining Round-Up: AMD GPU Sales Decline, Hut 8 Claims to be Largest Miner in Canada appeared first on Bitcoin News. дальше »

2018-7-27 03:15


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Some Crypto-Mining Operations Are Not What They Say They Are

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining has become a very competitive industry, and the amount of processing power hashing away to mine these digital assets is truly amazing. However over the years since the inception of GPU and ASIC mining, essentially when home mining turned into an industry, the cryptocurrency mining space has been riddled with fraudulent […] The post Some Crypto-Mining Operations Are Not What They Say They Are appeared first on Bitcoin News. дальше »

2018-7-22 18:35


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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


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Amidst Bear Market, Crypto Miners Repurpose Mining Equipment

A growing number of cryptocurrency miners are finding other ways to put their equipment to use as depressed digital asset prices make it increasingly difficult to stay afloat in the market. This is the theme of a special report in the Los Angeles Times July 17, 2018, which outlines amongst other things, how a surplus in computing power is making crypto. дальше »

2018-7-20 13:00