Cryptocoins Exchanges / Coinbase - 3 years ago
As Bitcoin has become increasingly mainstream, questions about how it works have naturally arisen among both investors and the general public. One of those questions is about the potential environmental impact of mining, which is the process the bloc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Following some stern warnings from a few major trade associations and regulators in China, two prominent exchanges, Huobi and Okex, have stopped offering services to Chinese residents. After the two exchanges halted specific services to residents of...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 3 years ago
Huobi and BTC.TOP have said they will suspend services in reaction to the crackdown, even as Bitcoin remains lodged below $40k.
Bitcoin miners have been impacted by renewed efforts by the Chinese government to crack down on cryptocurrency mining busi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
When billionaire Elon Musk announced that Tesla would no longer accept bitcoin as payment for its electric vehicles, the price of the crypto asset tanked. In justifying this decision, Musk cited bitcoin mining’s inefficient use of electricity a...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
In short, China's obsession about controlling every aspect of currency and money making in China is going to clamp down on mining using the convenient story angle that controlling mining is about controlling energy and green sustainability. In m...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
While bitcoin prices have slid in value and the high network difficulty, the leading crypto asset is still quite profitable to mine according to current data. Despite the profitability, these days there are only a few manufacturers producing applicat...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
I live in a mining town. There are 2 companies here mining nickel and copper. Our beautiful forest landscape was decimated, people have died, union wars have crippled our local economy. The acid rain was literally eating the paint off of cars. NASA e...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Iran is using Bitcoin mining to circumvent and lessen the effect of the economic sanctions that the U.S. and other countries have applied to the country since 2006, according to a new study by Elliptic, a blockchain analytics and financial crime comp...
by COINS NEWS - 3 years ago
The biggest drawbacks of the “most secure, decentralized network in the world” is that such a majority of its hashrate comes from a dystopian authoritarian country. Yes the mempool would be unstable and flooded for a week or two, but then the diffic...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
A recent report from the Chinese government’s financial committee has reiterated the country’s stance on bitcoin mining and that it would continue to monitor the sector closely. The report follows a recent article from Reuters published t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
On Wednesday, the firm Bit Mining Limited, formerly known as 500.com, announced it has entered into a binding investment in a cryptocurrency mining data center located in Texas. The binding investment worth $25 million is with Dory Creek, LLC as the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
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 t...
by COINS NEWS - 3 years ago
In late 2016 my friend asked me if I wanted to help him setup some mining rigs. It seemed like a no brainer. Buy the rigs, have a 6 - 8 months ROI, live like kings, and if the market crashes he could sell all the GPUs at his PC/cell phone repair shop...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 3 years ago
GPU manufacturer Nvidia has made its GeForce RTX cards unappealing to cryptocurrency miners.
Graphics card maker, Nvidia, has extended its campaign to diminish the use of its RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 Ti cards being used for crypto mining. The...