2019-11-4 11:17 |
The Berlin hard fork will probably be used to code another delay for the mining ice age.
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Last Wednesday, French police shut down a massive botnet that managed to install malware on over 850,000 computers. This network was partially used to distribute ransomware and carry out data theft.
2019-9-3 14:33 | |
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After the end of the Soviet Union and the economic fallout that happened in Russia, several industry facilities were abandoned. Now, cryptocurrency miners are giving these abandoned places a new breath of life by using them as mining farms.
2019-9-3 23:42 | |
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Ex-Amazon employee, arrested last month over Capital One data breach, has also been accused of hacking over 30 more companies. In addition to stealing data, Paige Thompson allegedly used the compromised servers to mine cryptocurrency.
2019-8-31 13:00 | |
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Oles Slobodenyuk, the CEO of Hotmine, has created a very interesting product. His company decided to create a Bitcoin mining machine that could be used as a way to heat homes. The place in which it will be used? Siberia, one of the world’s coldest regions. The idea of his project is to be able […]
2019-8-24 21:29 | |
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Two raids of the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant uncovered GPUs, hard drives, and cooling equipment used to mine cryptocurrencies.
2019-8-23 00:00 | |
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Craig Wright’s claims of using between 60 and 100 computers to mine Bitcoin in January 2009 were debunked by crypto researcher SeekingSatoshi. The low hash rate recorded in Bitcoin’s earliest days showed that Wright simply couldn’t have used that many machines to mine the researcher said, uncovering yet another layer of potential lies told by […] The post Researcher debunks Craig Wright’s claims of heavy Bitcoin mining during BTC’s early history appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-8-10 02:49 | |
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It has been known for some time that Blockstream mines at a small scale, with it unclear what pools they used, but you can probably guess. Now they’ve announced the... The post The Merger of Mining and Development, Can Blockstream Rule Bitcoin? appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-8-10 15:00 | |
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Gominer Token is a Peer-to-Peer token that has a sophisticated level of security for a multi-functional digital currency and for all future use expansion. The token is created to help our user to interact and expand the way of their earning in Cloud mining.
2019-7-28 17:33 | |
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Crypto mining was a new frontier in 2011. Bitcoin’s ledger had just launched a couple of years earlier. Most were still barely getting used to the idea, and possibilities. At that point, it was common for Bitcoins to be mined from computers in basements and college dormitories.
2019-7-27 15:14 | |
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Enterprise search engine Elasticsearch is under threat of being turned into a sophisticated cryptocurrency mining botnet to be used in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro describes a new malware strain that launches multi-stage attacks on publicly accessible databases and servers that run old versions of Elasticsearch software.
2019-7-23 17:54 | |
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Iran’s Economic Commission has agreed to set electricity tariffs for bitcoin mining activities based on the prices used for electricity exports. The new tariff scheme is expected to come into effect as soon as it gets approved by the Iranian Cabinet, according to a Financial Tribune report, July 21, 2019.
2019-7-23 19:00 | |
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The government of Iran has opted to introduce specific electricity prices for cryptocurrency mining. The west Asian country, which has had a complicated relationship with cryptocurrency in the past, plans to set prices around the same tariffs that are used for exporting electricity.
2019-7-22 15:32 | |
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If you are looking to get a Bitcoin miner in China, well the sad thing is it is becoming very difficult. The official sites you have been used to looking are actually out of stock, and if you are thinking of getting the second-hand mining machines well this is valuable now. Before they would get […]
2019-7-14 19:12 | |
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As most of our regular readers are probably well aware of, Ethereum Classic [ETC] first came into existence during the latter half of 2016. Upon its inception, the currency was viewed as a fork of ETH that stuck to the original Ethereum blockchain and could be used by developers to create a host of novel […]
2019-7-8 20:27 | |
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When in doubt, look inward. Well, that’s the motto Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain is employing. Bitmain, manufacturers of mining equipment used to mint the largest cryptocurrency in the market, Bitcoin, has finished rolling out employee options as their initial public offering [IPO] looms.
2019-7-6 16:30 | |
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With bitcoin overtopping $10,000, the demand for mining equipment in China has increased drastically. Used mining rigs jumped twice in price.
2019-7-3 21:25 | |
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Hackers have found a way to exploit loopholes in open Android Debug Bridge (ADB) ports, a client-server program used in the development of Android applications, to mine blockchain-based digital assets.
2019-6-24 17:00 | |
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It’s a new week, which means only one thing: it’s time for Hard Fork’s roundup of cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines from over the weekend. Let’s get to it. 1. Security researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a new type of cryptocurrency mining botnet.
2019-6-24 10:55 | |
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The price of cryptocurrency is determined by two main factors. The purchase or sales flow of cryptocurrency (purchase of cryptocurrency increases price, selling lowers its price) The volume of exchange for cryptocurrency given that, for cryptocurrencies, a transaction corresponds to verification of that transaction through mining that introduces, into the market supply, new cryptocurrency units as a reward to the verifiers This suggests that the value of a cryptocurrency depends only on its users.
2019-6-21 18:26 | |
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Authorities in China have arrested a man after he reportedly stole electricity from an oil well to mine Bitcoin. The arrest was made after the police received a phone call from Daqing Oilfield, located in Haerken district (Tsitsihar, China) on May 28th.
2019-6-14 15:23 | |
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By CCN Markets: One of Africa’s largest insurers, Old Mutual, has announced it will no longer cover crypto mining equipment due to lack of regulation. After researching the industry, the Pan-Africanist financial group discovered a number of reasons that prompted it to make the decision that will not sit well with crypto miners.
2019-6-14 11:31 | |
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Pan-African insurance firm Old Mutual Insure will no longer insure the computer equipment used by crypto mining operations, citing the unregulated nature of the industry and its ties to cybercrime as two major factors.
2019-6-13 18:53 | |
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It seems we can’t go more than a week without news of a new cryptocurrency mining malware or botnet being discovered. This time, security researchers have uncovered another Monero mining botnet that’s targeting China.
2019-6-13 16:02 | |
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We all know that banks make it difficult for blockchain businesses by denying them access to conventional banking services and accounts. Well now, it seems insurance firms are throwing a spanner in the works for cryptocurrency mining businesses in Africa.
2019-6-13 13:41 | |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is chasing hackers — including the founder of cryptocurrency mining marketplace NiceHash — over an alleged plot to create and distribute malware through major dark web forum Darkode.
2019-6-12 16:40 | |
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The concept of Bitcoin [BTC] mining has always been looked at like an evil spawn by many mainstream industries and its proponents. But a new report from Coinshares has quashed that notion by stating that 74 percent of the world’s BTC mining operations were driven by renewable energy.
2019-6-9 19:30 | |
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Not for the first time, JPMorgan & Chase is raising a stir in the crypto community. In a recent note, the bank’s strategists announced that they had calculated a fundamental valuation for Bitcoin (BTC), with a cost of production determined from the energy and resources used in the mining process, as Bloomberg reports.
2019-6-3 17:10 | |
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The energy used to mine bitcoin has long caused debate over whether it’s a wasteful process. As the arguments have rumbled on, some people have been focused on mining coins with renewable energy.
2019-5-31 16:50 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Vincent He. Although China has shut down bitcoin trading platforms and deemed them illegal, its attitude toward bitcoin mining is still ambiguous.
2019-5-31 20:14 | |
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A recent analysis made by the cybersecurity group Guardicore Labs has discovered that as many as 50,000 servers around the world are currently infected with a malware that is being used for cryptojacking.
2019-5-29 22:10 | |
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Ethereum Classic network faced a double 51% attack on its platform in the month of January which led to a loss of $1 million. The attackers were able to accumulate 51% of the hash power required to manipulate the network and continued the attack for several days. The attackers used their control on the ETC […]
2019-5-29 18:22 | |
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged a government employee alleged to have misused government IT infrastructure for personal cryptomining operations, per a press release.
2019-5-22 18:47 | |
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On March 21, 2019, Dutch news outlet NL Times reported that “Berry van M. ,” a 33-year-old Dutch businessman and the operator of now-defunct trading platform Koinz Trading, has been arrested on charges of deceiving investors with a bogus bitcoin mining scheme.
2019-5-21 19:56 | |
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On May 9, 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), issued new “interpretive guidance” about how its regulations apply to businesses that conduct money transmissions in virtual currencies.
2019-5-11 21:34 | |
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Chinese crypto miners are in a frenzy over pre-owned bitcoin mining devices following the recent price upsurge that saw the lodestar digital coin’s value rise from sub $4,000 figures to… The post Why Chinese Miners are in a Frenzy over Used Bitcoin Mining Rigs appeared first on CoinCentral.
2019-5-10 18:59 | |
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Hut 8 Mining (named after Hut 8 in Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing broke the enigma code and accelerated the end of World War II) has just filed its audited financial statements for 2018, detailing a tight but still profitable bitcoin mining business.
2019-5-10 20:04 | |
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In a handful of oil fields in the Great White North, natural gas, an otherwise wasted drilling by-product, is being put to work. But it’s not being used to well more oil; it’s being used to mine bitcoin.
2019-5-8 20:07 | |
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Cybercriminals are getting bolder and smarter all the time and it is hard to keep up with them, as they keep finding new exploits in several pieces of software. Now, it was recently discovered by the security intelligence company Trend Micro that the Confluence software, created by Atlassian, was used to spread crypto mining malware. […]
2019-5-8 02:30 | |
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MinerGate, a multicurrency mining pool, is excited to introduce MinerGate Token (MG), which is a utility token designed to be crucial to fueling the MinerGate ecosystem and to be used as a loyalty tool.
2019-5-6 21:51 | |
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The market is moving quickly to take advantage of the increasing price of Bitcoin. April has been great to anyone who is mining Bitcoin, but those who were thinking to get into the game right now are claiming that prices are getting ridiculous.
2019-5-4 18:43 | |
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Although prices continue to ebb and flow, Dash mining activity is at an all-time high. According to data from Bitinfocharts, the processing power used to secure the Dash blockchain has just hit record numbers.
2019-5-1 01:32 | |
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Cryptojacking — the process of infecting computers with malware to mine cryptocurrency — has declined alongside prices during cryptowinter. But like any dextrous organism facing extinction, the virus and its propagators are adapting.
2019-4-27 22:07 | |
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On April 24, 2019, the first bitcoin ATM in the Islamic Republic of Iran was revealed at the 12th International Exhibition of Exchange, Bank and Insurance in Tehran.
2019-4-27 21:31 | |
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An intelligence branch of the Russian government used bitcoin to fund its cyberwarfare efforts to interfere with the 2016 U. S. presidential election, the Mueller Report claims.
2019-4-19 23:21 | |
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They’re doing it in British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta and Labrador — bitcoin miners in Canadian provinces are taking advantage of the country’s cool climate and abundant supplies of hydroelectric power.
2019-4-17 20:52 | |
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By CCN: Antoine Le Calvez, a researcher for CoinMetrics, set out to determine how Bitcoin’s environmental impact compares to that of the auto industry. His striking conclusion? US vehicles consume roughly the same amount of energy in three days as Bitcoin has consumed in its entire existence.
2019-4-15 22:00 | |
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With the growth of the market, mining is recovering. Meanwhile, mining technology also did not stand still all this time. The ASICs are now replacing by the FPGA cards that were already used for mining before.
2019-4-13 22:56 | |
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Popular browser solution Mozilla Firefox is finally rolling out its long-awaited system for stopping internet baddies from secretly mining cryptocurrencies with your computing resources. As of today, users of Firefox‘ Nightly and Beta browsers are equipped with the option to automatically block crypto-jacking scripts (like the infamous CoinHive).
2019-4-9 15:59 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Chloe Jiang. Bitmain, the world’s largest bitcoin miner manufacturer, has announced specifications for its Antminer 17 series machines, which will be globally available on April 9, 2019.
2019-4-9 20:14 | |
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