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Home-based crypto mining is booming in Brazil

Tue, 01 Jun 2021, 09:26 am UTC

Brazilians have found an alternative source of income in crypto mining amidst the rising unemployment in the country due to the coronavirus pandemic. Mining rigs were even spotted in homes located in favelas as home mining...

Insights & Views Technology

Announcement of Bitcoin (BTC) Mining Council worries some crypto proponents

Wed, 26 May 2021, 02:22 am UTC

The announcement of the creation of a new Bitcoin Mining Council that will promote the use of renewable energy seemed to have calmed the crypto market with BTCs price trading between $37,000 and $39,000 lately. However,...

Technology

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

Wed, 19 May 2021, 08:16 am UTC

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...

Technology Regulation

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

Mon, 17 May 2021, 15:51 pm UTC

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...

Business Technology

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

Wed, 21 Apr 2021, 09:53 am UTC

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...

Business Technology

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

Wed, 14 Apr 2021, 12:07 pm UTC

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...

Technology

Ethereum Hashrate Breaks 9.5 T/s

Fri, 09 Apr 2021, 06:32 am UTC

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...

Technology

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

Thu, 01 Apr 2021, 13:49 pm UTC

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...

Technology

Ethereum Devs Proposed EIP-3455

Thu, 01 Apr 2021, 09:54 am UTC

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...

Technology

Gavin Wood: Kusama Parachain May Be Launched Soon

Thu, 01 Apr 2021, 07:03 am UTC

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...

Technology

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

Wed, 31 Mar 2021, 10:58 am UTC

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Technology

First Carbon-Neutral NFT Scaling Platform Launched By Immutable X

Wed, 31 Mar 2021, 09:12 am UTC

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...

Technology

Crypto ransomware is a threat the average American is concerned about, says cybersecurity expert

Sun, 28 Mar 2021, 08:52 am UTC

Crypto adoption has risen in recent months as more companies started to accept digital currencies as a payment option and the rise in prices of popular cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) has attracted...

Technology

AMD won’t restrict the crypto mining capabilities of its GPUs

Tue, 23 Mar 2021, 12:40 pm UTC

With the rally pushing the prices of popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) higher, crypto mining is becoming more profitable. Demand for graphics processing units (GPU) is expected to rise with the...

Technology

Ethereum Devs Put Forward Proposal To prioritize The Merge After London #278

Fri, 19 Mar 2021, 09:18 am UTC

With the recent Vitalik Buterins quick merge proposal, there is a possibility to deliver the merge sooner. The main advantage of the proposal is that it introduces fewer required changes to make the consensus upgrade on...