2021-6-1 19:45 |
Institutional miners and hobbyists alike are taking advantage of energy subsidies to cash in.
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Cryptocurrency miners in Argentina are taking advantage of the country’s subsidized electricity to reap outsized returns. The post Subsidized Energy Powers Argentine Crypto Mining Boom appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-6-1 18:40 | |
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A major chipmaker keeps making efforts to calm down the gaming community’s anger toward cryptocurrency miners who are taking the lead in buying graphic cards massively, boosting its prices. Nvidia has announced that it will deliberately limit the capabilities for some of its newly graphic cards to keep a balanced inventory for gamers. Cards With […]
2021-5-20 11:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency companies are taking full advantage of the ongoing bull market. There is a lot of euphoria present in the market as Bitcoin becomes a trillion-dollar asset and the overall crypto market cap grows past $1.
2021-3-12 20:33 | |
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Data shows that Bitcoin miners have ceased taking profit and have started to once again hoard BTC for the first time since mid-to-late December 2020. What’s notable about this, is the fact that the leading cryptocurrency by market cap appreciated in price by more than double during the sustained selling. If that’s the case, what […]
2021-3-2 04:00 | |
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Bitcoin has pulled back $10,000 from highs set earlier in the year, and according to on-chain data, it is due to extreme profit taking from early investors and miners. Here’s what past bull markets suggest about the current sell off and if this is an opportunity to “buy the dip,” or if the top is in.
2021-1-26 18:30 | |
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Bitcoin is rallying again, and some analysts are taking a closer look at data extracted from the underlying blockchain for signals on whether cryptocurrency miners are buying or selling. Or if they're HODLing.
2020-5-15 15:20 | |
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On April 8, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) underwent another halving, reducing its block rewards from 12. 5 to 6. 25 BCH per block. The decreasing block reward could be an issue going forward, since the on-chain metrics for BCH look grim, and a movement of miners to BTC is already taking place.
2020-4-10 14:10 | |
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BTC selling from miners could be impacting the price on spot exchanges, taking a closer look at Bitcoin’s mining difficulty provides some useful insights
2020-3-31 23:41 | |
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Talking to a TV anchor, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse criticized Bitcoin for being represented by ‘four miners in China. ’ Ripple is taking a more aggressive stance towards Bitcoin as it tries to position itself as a cheaper alternative.
2020-2-18 15:10 | |
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Monero [XMR] made headlines after becoming one of the first digital assets to obfuscate users’ identities, while also offering secure and faster transactions. The decentralized cryptocurrency recently recorded a value correction, following a botnet attack which was used to mine XMR worth $250,000.
2019-6-15 01:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Here we go again. Yet another article has surfaced taking potshots at the perceived threat of Bitcoin’s energy consumption. A recent article out of MIT Technology Review claims that: Mining Bitcoin is a hugely wasteful process.
2019-6-14 14:55 | |
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By CCN: Now that the bitcoin price is holding at the $8,000 level, investors are anxiously awaiting what comes next. Bitcoin’s value has expanded by 50% over the last 30 days, but the bulls are currently taking a breather and momentum appears to have stalled.
2019-5-23 00:15 | |
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When considering Bitcoin dominance in terms of market cap and trading volume, spare a thought for the poor miners. The miners of other altcoins, that is, as they share under 10% of the total fees value between them.
2019-5-14 22:00 | |
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Research has shown that the number of on-chain Bitcoin transactions has risen dramatically throughout 2019, nearing the volume of Bitcoin’s peak in December 2017. Even so, transaction fees are a fraction of what they were around bitcoin’s all-time high, likely due to the continued uptick of SegWit transactions on the network.
2019-5-8 00:53 | |
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Cryptojacking — the process of infecting computers with malware to mine cryptocurrency — has declined alongside prices during cryptowinter. But like any dextrous organism facing extinction, the virus and its propagators are adapting.
2019-4-27 22:07 | |
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They’re doing it in British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta and Labrador — bitcoin miners in Canadian provinces are taking advantage of the country’s cool climate and abundant supplies of hydroelectric power.
2019-4-17 20:52 | |
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The Bitcoin (BTC) price advanced three percent on March 5, taking major altcoins to gains approaching 20 percent — despite worries over the markets’ short-term prospects. Bitcoin Price Nears $3900 Data from Coinmarketcap tracked Bitcoin (BTC) as it made daily moves upwards Tuesday — with BTC/USD trading around $3810 at press time.
2019-3-5 20:00 | |
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Miners Do Not Agree With JP Morgan Regarding Bitcoin’s Fair Value Of $2,400 Cryptocurrency miners disagree with JP Morgan regarding the proposed “fair value” for Bitcoin close to $2,400. The bank has released this estimation during a report launched last month.
2019-2-22 19:17 | |
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Whilst debate raged throughout the Bitcoin community over whether the block size limit should be increased and how, Luke-jr for years stood out for arguing the exact opposite position.
2019-2-15 19:18 | |
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Police in Adelaide, Australia raided the home of Rob Butvila expecting to find a marijuana grow room, but instead they found an elaborate crypto mining set up, complete with a ventilation system to keep heat the miners generate at bay.
2019-2-12 23:01 | |
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The world’s most popular cryptocurrency is a now a little bit more decentralized, thanks to the waning influence of Bitmain and the return of the anonymous Bitcoin miner. Blockchain research unit Diar has published new data revealing exactly who has been validating the Bitcoin network.
2019-1-15 19:46 | |
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The market crash for the prices of nearly all cryptocurrencies has been taking a major toll on everyone. From investors to developers to miners, the community is suffering, and the changing prices have had a ripple effect.
2018-12-11 00:56 | |
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The continued bear market is taking its toll on cryptocurrency investors, miners, and businesses alike, and has prompted ConsenSys to consider restructuring its business plans so it can adapt to the new market environment and continue to thrive.
2018-12-6 23:00 | |
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As the market continues to tumble (and mining profits have dwindled), Bitcoin’s mining difficulty dropped by its largest percentile in seven years — the second largest downward correction in the cryptocurrency’s lifetime.
2018-12-4 01:01 | |
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Thanks to Josh Mandel idea, 23 different businesses in the state of Ohio will begin paying their taxes in Bitcoin. This new “convenience and adaptation” goes to show how BTC is taking root and is nowhere from being quashed despite draw downs that has seen miners in several parts of China auction their gear.
2018-11-26 09:33 | |
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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.
2018-11-20 23:08 | |
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Along with the recently declared Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Hash Wars taking center stage for a countless number of cryptocurrency miners and enthusiasts, it's very easy to have some otherwise weighty developments just slip off the radar by comparison.
2018-11-18 05:32 | |
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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.
2018-11-15 08:00 | |
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The fast-approaching BCH hard fork has shaken up the crypto community as there are indications that miners might be taking different paths than previously stated. Bitcoin Cash SV is the leading proposition, with support from more than 61% of all mining power.
2018-11-14 19:30 | |
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The law offices of Pomerantz LLP in New York have filed a series of civil suits against MGT Capital Investment and its executive officers on behalf of several of the trading firm’s past or present customers.
2018-10-18 20:05 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-10-2 17:27 | |
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Bitmain, the biggest company in bitcoin mining, has filed for its IPO in Hong Kong. As part of the approval process, the company submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong stock exchange at the end of August 2018.
2018-9-28 23:08 | |
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Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
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Several Chinese researchers from Fudan University, Tsinghua University and the University of California Riverside have produced the first systematic study of the malicious mining of cryptocurrencies, known as cryptojacking, unveiling increasing complexity over time.
2018-9-25 23:59 | |
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When Bitcoin launched in 2009, it became the world’s first cryptocurrency. By utilizing miners that contribute their excess computation power to validate a movement of funds, it allows the network to remain decentralized.
2018-9-19 22:03 | |
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Today, cryptocurrency mining operators could benefit from taking out loans while using their mined coins as collateral to cover their expenses and persevere during the current bear market. Miners Can’t Hodl…or Can They? Large-scale miners have enormous fixed costs, which they must pay regardless of the price their mined coins are currently worth.
2018-9-11 22:00 | |
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The Russian crypto association is working on two projects to create mining pools offering better conditions to the local mining companies. The industry has seen robust growth with an estimated 70,000 enterprises currently operating in the field, according to the organization.
2018-9-9 03:10 | |
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The Russian crypto association is working on two projects to create mining pools offering better conditions to the local mining companies. The industry has seen robust growth with 70,000 enterprises currently operating in the field.
2018-9-9 03:10 | |
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A hydroelectric dam in eastern New York State is being converted into a dedicated crypto mining farm, taking advantage of low-cost, renewable energy, according to Dpw Holdings whose subsidiary is building the mining farm.
2018-8-28 17:15 | |
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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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The bearish trend that has been haunting crypto investors since the beginning of 2018 is now taking a visible toll on mining firms as well. Following the footsteps of rival Hashflare, the Iceland-based cloud crypto mining platform Genesis has announced a drastic step that yet again depicts the woes of a progressively distressed global mining […] Genesis Mining Asks Unprofitable Miners to Upgrade Contract or Face Termination was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.
2018-8-20 16:29 | |
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Cheap energy prices are sending crypto miners to the U. S. -Canadian border, turning hydropower into hash power, but the authorities are beginning to fight back. Taking Advantage of the Public Utilities Plattsburgh, a small town on the North American border has become ground zero for crypto mining.
2018-7-31 21:30 | |
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Today, the days of hobbyist crypto miners are long gone, and thanks to the growth of larger miners (namely Bitmain) we can enjoy a more reliable, stable and faster network. However, this comes at a price.
2018-7-29 11:00 | |
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With crypto miners making up a large portion of total cyberattacks, the rate of cryptocurrency hacking is taking rise. In a policy update released July 26, 2018, Google banned crypto mining applications from its Play Store.
2018-7-29 03:00 | |
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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.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Here is a file that contains data, extracted from geth, about transaction fees in every block between 4710000 and 4730000. For each block, it contains an object of the form: { "block":4710000, "coinbase":"0x829bd824b016326a401d083b33d092293333a830", "deciles":[40,40.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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One major class of attacks to hit the hacking landscape recently is cryptomining. While cryptomining on its own supports a good cause when being done consciously, it also allows nefarious actors to make a lot of money fast, and, with the sheer number of cryptocurrencies available to mine, it is becoming a popular choice for attackers.
2018-7-18 23:18 | |
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On July 3, 2018, Binance suspended all trading and withdrawal services due to "irregular" Syscoin (SYS) trades carried out "from a number of API users. " The exchange has since resumed all activities, according to a blog post.
2018-7-5 20:11 | |
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Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away.
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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Revealing the junk science used by the United Nations University to attack bitcoin mining. The first report from the “FUD Fighters” series.
Charles Edwards of Capriole Investments says that despite the current headwinds, Bitcoin’s fair value sits at $45,000.
With a welcoming regulatory environment and burgeoning energy industry, Florida is an emerging hub for Bitcoin mining operations to flourish.
Banning or taxing crypto mining out of existence isn’t going to solve this country’s issues around power consumption and grid stability – but supporting Bitcoin just might.
After Kazakhstan forced out Bitcoin mining operations, the majority of global hash rate is now produced with clean energy.
Bitcoin miners appeared to be the model consumers for the ancillary services in the state.
Powering bitcoin mining operations with landfill waste is the latest trend in sector growth as miners capitalize on wasted and stranded energy resources.