Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Following concerns raised by Tesla CEO Elon Musk about Bitcoin’s energy consumption, global asset manager Ark Investment Management explained that the concerns are “misguided.” Referring to its research using real-world data, the in...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 years ago
A 17GB personal data leak reportedly sprung from the Pi Network mobile app. Disclaimer: This article has been updated to include comments from the Pi Network, which cl...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
BTC.top has signaled for Taproot in their most recently mined block. As of 0933 EST 2021-05-17 94.33% of mining power supports Taproot. Taproot will not be activated during this difficulty cycle, but there is a good chance we will hit 90% total block...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 years ago
The largest Bitcoin mining pools are signaling for Taproot, but the activation may not reach the 90% critical consensus mark during this current difficulty epoch. Disc...
by COINS NEWS - 3 years ago
Here’s a short quote from an article recently released by the guardian: “In the case of cobalt, 60% of the world’s supply comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo where large numbers of unregulated mines use children as young as seven as miner...
More / Etherum Reddit - 3 years ago
Conspiracy theory... Is just me that have a feeling that I'm paying almost 50% pool fee?? let me explain... so when difficulty was 7,5 p I was mining 0,005 eth/day with my rtx 3080... with the price increase of ETH it was like 20$/day (remember t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
On Friday, the bitcoin mining operation Greenidge Generation has announced that starting June 1st, the firm will be “carbon neutral” for the rest of 2021 and beyond. Greenidge’s announcement follows the recent statements from Tesla...
More / Etherum Reddit - 3 years ago
I am a big supporter of Ethereum, however I have found myself in a position without any eth. Would it be feasible to get a mining rig to get some eth? submitted by /u/TottenhamsHokage [link] [comments]
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 years ago
Turkey’s biggest bust against crypto mining smugglers resulted in the seizure of $600,000 worth of illegal Bitcoin ASIC miners and the detention of four suspects. Turk...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 3 years ago
Eco-focused blockchain companies are looking to promote a carbon-neutral crypto space.DMG Blockchain Solutions and Argo Blockchain have announced a partnership that will see the two eco-focused blockchain companies work towards the decarbonisation of...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
After bitcoin prices took a hit following Tesla’s recent u-turn, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty jumped over 25 trillion, the highest the metric has seen during the protocol’s lifetime. The mining difficulty spike follows the recent 12%...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 3 years ago
The tech giants are looking at ways to bolster protection for crypto mining operationsMicrosoft has teamed up with the semiconductor chip maker Intel on a project to combat the growing prevalence of crypto-mining malware.Microsoft’s Defender fo...
by COINS NEWS - 3 years ago
Yes, you read that well. Scientists discovered back in 2012 that it's possible to create and operate logic gates (transistors) with swarms of soldier crabs. I discovered this recently and inmediatly thought 'hey, there's a GPU supply shor...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 3 years ago
Me and my friend decided to try to mine cryptocurrencies using somewhat old (few years old) unused but somewhat decent gaming PC. We decided to create or join a mining pool to double our processing power.
Since, the coin reward in mining pool is gon...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 8 years ago
To an extent yes. It's bad that mining pools are so big and fairly concentrated. Work is being done to try to alleviate this.
A few points limit the threat though:
The amount of harm miners can do is limited. They can't outright steal money, or cr...