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What’s behind Eastern Europe’s crypto boom?
The cryptocurrency craze seems to have stagnated in recent months, following a peak at the end of last year that saw Bitcoin reach an all-time high of $19,783.06, and Ethereum and Ripple make percentage gains of around 9,200 percent and 35,000 percent, respectively, in 2017. Yet interest in digital …
BusinessTop Five Biggest Crypto Mining Areas: Which Farms Are Pushing Forward the New Gold Rush?
The mining industry is probably the oldest activity related to cryptocurrency. It all began in 2009, when Satoshi Nakamoto generated the first block …
BitcoinGenesis Mining Opens Bitcoin Mining Contracts Again
Genesis Mining, the largest cloud mining provider in the space, announced last week the relaunch of their popular Bitcoin cloud mining contracts. …
BitcoinBitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Fortunes and Fallacies
This week, leading South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb experienced a major hack, while Mt Gox, the most notorious exchange to be hacked in bitcoin …
CryptocurrencyBitcoin Inside: Crypto Mining Farm to Open in Former Intel Facility
<b>California-based 3G Venture II has paid $13 million for a significant portion of an old Intel chip plant in Colorado Springs, which it intends of</b> …
BitcoinChinese Police Seize 200 Bitcoin, Ethereum Mining Rigs Over Electricity Theft
Advertisement<p>Chinese police have reportedly seized over 200 computers used to mine bitcoin and ethereum in a crypto-mining operation that allegedly …
BitcoinProof of Rental (or Shared) Work
In this article we would like to introduce a new variant of Proof of Work, with the aim of mitigating the mining power centralization problem and the …
BitcoinCan GPU Prices And Supply And Demand Find A Balance In The Market?
According to a report by Venture Beat, now may be the time to pull the trigger on that GPU purchase you have been holding off on. With cryptocurrency on the decline and the mining industry pulling back its expenditures on GPUs, you could spend less on a graphics card than ever before.<p>The market is …
Artificial IntelligenceChinese Police Arrest Bitcoin Miner Who ‘Stole’ 150 MW of Electricity
A Chinese man has found himself in police custody after attempting to steal electricity to fund his unprofitable Bitcoin mining operation, local …
CryptocurrencyLuxury Brands Are Testing the Tech That Powers CryptoKitties
Sure the cypherpunks love CryptoKitties, but turns out luxury fashion brands are also taking a shine to the digital fluffballs.<p>Or at least, they're …
CryptocurrencyToday In Cryptocurrency: Japan Money Laundering Crackdown, Market Flooded With ICOs
The cryptocurrency market finished yet another week on a low note Friday, with most major cryptocurrencies trading down more than 8 percent on the …
CryptocurrencyMarkets Update: Cryptocurrency Prices Tumble Before the Weekend
<b>Cryptocurrency markets are slumping today as most digital asset markets are seeing losses between 8-20 percent over the past 24-hours. Lots of</b> …
CryptocurrencyBig Tech Isn’t the Problem With Homelessness. It’s All of Us
The icons of downtown San Francisco are the same whether you’re looking at the buildings or at your phone. In the blocks around the undulating, …
ScienceAbundant Renewable Energy Makes Iceland a Crypto Mining Powerhouse
Few countries around the world lend themselves to cryptocurrency mining. Iceland has always been a key region in this regard. Although it was never …
BitcoinHIVE Blockchain: The Mining Company Providing The Backbone For Cryptocurrency
It’s no secret that the Bitcoin boom has rapidly evolved to transform the way we imagine global currency in a digital world. As cryptocurrency continues becoming a normalized alternative to cash, coins and credit cards — more merchants are accepting this digital money as a viable payment …
BitcoinGiga Watt And WTT Token Explained
Giga Watt and WTT token origination<p>Headed by Dave Carlson, Giga Watt is one of the largest cryptocurrency mining companies in the USA. Carlson was …
CryptocurrencyDecentralized Blockchain Governance
We, the EOS community, have embarked on a grand experiment to see if a global community can govern itself without the well documented pitfalls of …
BlockchainIt's Bitcoin in a box as Nordcoin introduces Mobile Mining Containers
<b>It's a moveable feast of cheaper, cooler, greener electricity for building blockchains</b><p>Shipping containers are wonderful things that have changed the …
Sustainability“No Grounding In Reality”: BIS Report Tells A Strange Crypto Story
Earlier this week, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland issued a new document as part of its annual economic report that warns …
BitcoinResearchers Find 21,000 Exposed Container Orchestration Systems
<b>Researchers Discovered More Than 21,000 Container Orchestration and API Management Systems Exposed to the Public Internet</b><p>Public cloud and container …
VirtualizationFilipino Bank to Launch Japan Remittances Using IBM and Partners
The Philippines’ RIZAL COMMERCIAL Banking Corp (RCBC) announced plans to launch blockchain remittances to Japan June 20 in a partnership with two …
MockupsCentral bankers say cryptocurrencies could face ‘complete loss of value’
It’s been a tough few days for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. After research by the University of Texas last week suggested the Bitcoin craze of 2017 …
CryptocurrencyThe Four Most Expensive Words in the English Language
There are currently a number of attempts to deploy a cryptocurrency-based decentralized storage network, including MaidSafe, FileCoin, Sia and …
BlockchainEverything you know about Bitcoin is thanks to this Czech grandpa
The Wikipedia page’s most prolific editor doesn't even own cryptocurrency.<p>Ladislav Mecir is a 57-year-old computer programmer who lives in the small …
The FutureHydro-Quebec hikes electricity price for cryptocurrency miners
Quebec will make electricity prohibitively expensive for cryptocurrency miners until it figures out how to deal with a surge in demand from the energy-hungry industry.<p>Provincial regulator Regie de l’energie authorized utility Hydro-Quebec to charge 15 cents per kilowatt hour to blockchain …
CryptocurrencyBi-Weekly Economic Review: Examining Rates
Is the rate hiking cycle almost done? Not the question on everyone's minds right now, so a good time to ask it, I think. A couple of items caught my …
BusinessMillion-Dollar Box Conjures Up a Fortune for Bitcoin Visionary
A former New York hedge-fund titan deployed his giant, million-dollar BlockBoxes to Canadian tar-sands country. A Chinese fintech pioneer runs his …
CryptocurrencyExposed Container Orchestration Systems Putting Many Orgs at Risk
More than 22,600 open container orchestration and API management systems discovered on the Internet.<p>New research confirms that many organizations are …
DevOpsA new report claims bitcoin could break the internet — the crypto world thinks it's missing the point
LONDON — Who's right about bitcoin: the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) or cryptocurrency advocates?<p>The BIS, which is often dubbed the central bank of central banks, released a chapter from its upcoming annual report on Sunday dismissing bitcoin as "a poor substitute for the solid …
Tech TrendsBIS Blasts Cryptos In Special Report: "Beyond The Hype"
<i>The BIS blasts cryptos over scaling issues, energy, and trust. The BIS is correct. Cryptos are fatally flawed as money.</i><p>A Bank of International …
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