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Nvidia limits Ether (ETH) mining hash rate on the new batch of GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 Ti GPUs

Chipmaker Nvidia is making sure that its new models of graphics cards, which are geared for gaming, go into their intended users. The company is putting an Ethereum hash rate limiter on the hardware to make them less...

Mark Jason Alcala

Wed, 19 May 2021, 08:16 am UTC

Technology Regulation

Personal data leak affecting 10K Vietnamese might be linked to a mobile crypto mining app

Crypto mining app for mobile users Pi Network is now reportedly linked to a massive data leak. The leak involved the personal data of thousands of users of the popular app. The leaked personal data came from the Know...

Mark Jason Alcala

Mon, 17 May 2021, 15:51 pm UTC

Business Technology

Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) can now be traded in Venmo

When PayPal launched its crypto trading feature last year, the payments giant also announced that the same feature will be arriving on its Venmo app. That day has finally arrived as Venmo users can now start trading in...

Mark Jason Alcala

Wed, 21 Apr 2021, 09:53 am UTC

Business Technology

Bitcoin (BTC) mining in North America is on the rise but challenging China’s dominance could take time

For years now, Chinas status as the worlds crypto mining leader remained unchallenged. But that could change as North American firms have started to beef up their mining capacity that could challenge the dominance of their...

Mark Jason Alcala

Wed, 14 Apr 2021, 12:07 pm UTC

Technology

Ethereum Hashrate Breaks 9.5 T/s

Citing data from Bitinfocharts, the average hashrate of Ethereum has reached 9.541 T/s over the past 24 hours, creating a record high since 2020. The mining difficulty also goes up to 131.244...

Coinness

Fri, 09 Apr 2021, 06:32 am UTC

Technology

Bitcoin (BTC) mining concentrated in areas with excess unused energy, says Coin Metric co-founder

With the soaring prices of cryptos such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), cryptocurrency mining has become a very profitable enterprise. This prompted some to raise their concerns over Bitcoin mining claiming that the...

Mark Jason Alcala

Thu, 01 Apr 2021, 13:49 pm UTC

Technology

Ethereum Devs Proposed EIP-3455

Ethereum developers William Morriss and Baptiste Vauthey have submitted a proposal EIP-3455 to introduce new operation code, in a bid to allow any sender address to recall issued tokens. At present, the Ethereum network...

Coinness

Thu, 01 Apr 2021, 09:54 am UTC

Technology

Gavin Wood: Kusama Parachain May Be Launched Soon

According to PolkaWorld, Gavin Wood, founder of Polkadot, shared the latest development of Polkadot, revealing that Kusama parachain may be launched in the next few...

Coinness

Thu, 01 Apr 2021, 07:03 am UTC

Technology

Polkadot-based Darwinia has successfully secured a slot on Rococo parachain.

Coinness

Wed, 31 Mar 2021, 10:58 am UTC

Technology

First Carbon-Neutral NFT Scaling Platform Launched By Immutable X

The Immutable X platform aims to tackle the increasing energy cost and carbon footprint of producing non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the Ethereum network. NFTs on Ethereum use gas to mint them on its proof-of-work...

Coinness

Wed, 31 Mar 2021, 09:12 am UTC