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Bitmain’s Nishant Sharma Talks China and Crypto in the Humans of Bitcoin Podcast
19.6.2019
This week on the Humans of Bitcoin podcast host Matt Aaron chatted with Bitmain’s Nishant Sharma who shared his story and discussed the western hemisphere’s false impressions of China and Bitcoin. During the interview, Sharma conversed about his work with Bitmain, one of the largest...
Bitmain Launches Low-Cost Special Edition Antminer S9
18.6.2019
On Monday, June 17, the Chinese mining rig manufacturer Bitmain Technologies announced the launch of a low-cost miner called the Antminer S9 version SE. The new 16 terahash per second (16TH/s) S9 SE is $350 per unit and the launch celebrates the company’s most popular product, the original...
Iran’s Energy Minister Wants Crypto Miners Charged Real Electricity Prices
10.6.2019
Iran’s deputy energy minister has said that power bills for crypto mining should be calculated in real electricity prices and no longer subsidized
Crypto Miners’ Electricity Shouldn’t Be Subsidized: Iranian Energy Minister
10.6.2019
Low electricity costs make Iran a popular mining destination. That could change
74% of the World’s Bitcoin Mining Operations Driven by Renewable Energy Says Report
7.6.2019
There’s a lot of debate over whether bitcoin mining is bad for the environment. Many bureaucrats and mainstream media pundits claim that mining is wasteful and bitcoin’s energy consumption cannot be ignored. However, these claims have been refuted in the past and on June 6, Coinshares...
Bitcoin Miners 'Highly' Profitable Again, China Still Dominates
6.6.2019
At current prices, the average miner is highly profitable again, with even older gear and high-cost producers currently able to make profit, crypto investment firm CoinShares concluded in its newest report on Bitcoin mining. It also claims that China still dominates both the mining hardware...
Study: Publicly Listed Chinese Firms Quietly Participate in Bitcoin Mining
29.5.2019
According to regional reports, a few publicly listed Chinese companies have been secretly mining bitcoin by pretending to provide cloud or web hosting services. Moreover, recent studies have revealed a growing trend of mystery miners processing the BCH and BTC networks at the same time as these...
Honest Nodes Spoiling a Theft Attempt Is Not a 51% Attack, BCH Devs Detail
27.5.2019
A number of Bitcoin Cash detractors and media publications have recently been spreading a false narrative that the BCH network was ‘51% attacked.’ In reality, however, honest nodes used their hashrate to stave off attacker nodes that were attempting to steal funds on the network. Also...
Two Miners Purportedly Execute 51% Attack on Bitcoin Cash Blockchain
25.5.2019
Two miners, BTC.top and BTC.com, have reportedly executed a 51% attack on the bitcoin cash blockchain
Traders Are Now Banned From Using Localbitcoins Exchange in Iran
24.5.2019
Traders from Iran have been banned from using the peer-to-peer trading platform Localbitcoins.com within the country. The Iranian section of the website displays a short message that states that the exchange is “currently not available.” The news follows significant Iranian rial trade...
Bitcoin Cash Miners Undo Attacker’s Transactions With ‘51% Attack’
24.5.2019
Two mining pools recently carried out a 51 percent attack on the bitcoin cash blockchain
Crypto Miners Dominate Top 10 List of Most Prolific Malware Threats
16.5.2019
A global threat report has concluded that the three most common malware variants detected in April were crypto miners
Crypto Spring Brings Strong Profits to Next-Generation and Older Mining Rigs
16.5.2019
Over the last few weeks, cryptocurrency markets have been on a tear accumulating considerable gains following the notorious ‘crypto winter.’ Since the recent price hike this spring, mining digital assets with next-generation miners has allowed participants to secure significant gains...
All of It Dark, All of It P2P: After the Binance Hack, Bitcoin Doesn’t Cut It
10.5.2019
That Binance could have colluded with miners to roll back hack transactions means bitcoin is not resistant enough to censorship, says Amir Taaki
Bitcoin’s Software Has Been Rolled Back Before
9.5.2019
When Binance lost $40 million to hackers this week, the crypto community discussed reorganizing the chain after it was suggested by a developer from MIT. Many people were upset by this proposition, declaring that there was no way a coordinated effort with miners could be pulled off. However, most...
Decentralization First: Privacy Coin Monero Cuts Out ASIC Miners to Stay Independent
13.3.2019
Privacy coin Monero introduces ASIC-resistance so it can remain an independent, open-source project — here are the details
GAW Miners and the Disappearing $20 Paycoin Floor
7.1.2015
CoinDesk looks into the recent controversy surrounding US-based crypto mining company GAW Miners and its recently launched digital currency, paycoin