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HIVE Digital announced two significant developments on Nov. 10: the acquisition of 6,500 new Canaan Avalon A1566 ASIC miners and the construction of a 100-megawatt mining facility in Paraguay. According to a company release, HIVE has ordered 6,500 ASIC miners… origin »
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Ethereum Security Lead Joins Effort To Oust Blockchain’s Big Miners There is a strong movement building inside of the Ethereum network to block ASIC miners. As many users believe that the decentralization is important, they seem concerned that ASIC miners could centralize the decision on the network too much and, because of this, some people […]
2018-10-1 00:57 | |
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Bitcoin mining, hardware maker, Bitmain, has announced a new next-gen mining ASIC chip dubbed the BM1391. Bitmain’s co-founder, Jihan Wu, recently made the announcement at the Digital Mining Summit in… The post Bitcoin Mining Giants Woo Miners with Next-Generation Chips appeared first on CoinCentral.
2018-10-1 19:57 | |
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Martin Holst Swende who joined the nonprofit Ethereum Foundation in 2016 as the lead security to ensure that any code change within the second largest blockchain platform for the development of decentralized applications do not halt operations in the blockchain had voiced his opinion against the use of ASIC miners in Ethereum mine.
2018-9-29 19:45 | |
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Security lead for the Ethereum Foundation said today that he supports swift action to remove ASIC mining hardware from the ethereum platform.
2018-9-29 23:05 | |
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Bitmain, the biggest company in bitcoin mining, has filed for its IPO in Hong Kong. As part of the approval process, the company submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong stock exchange at the end of August 2018.
2018-9-28 23:08 | |
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2018-9-26 02:13 | |
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The China-based Ebang Communication, one of the largest ASIC mining chip makers in the region has announced a new series of mining rigs this week at the World Digital Mining Summit in Tbilisi, Georgia.
2018-9-25 06:40 | |
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Bitmain has been targeted by critics around its IPO, its miners and the revenue it’s making. And indeed, investors are uncertain about the future of the company. However, there are other companies developing new interesting and powerful products.
2018-9-21 18:59 | |
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As controversies surrounding Bitmain’s looming IPO spell uncertainty for the future well-being of the mining goliath, competitors are fast to move in on the manufacturer’s territory.
2018-9-21 01:04 | |
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Chen Min, the former chief chip maker at Bitcoin mining chip developer Canaan Creative, is turning her attention to Ethereum. Announcing her venture at the Ethereum Classic Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Chen’s new company, Linzhi, will focus on building cryptocurrency mining devices, and its first official products are a series of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miners designed specifically for Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.
2018-9-15 01:22 | |
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About 8 years ago, in 2010, GPU entered the mining stage and outperformed CPU, leading to stock shortages at some point. In 2018 we are facing a new global trend: ASIC miners, which first appeared in 2013 and have been gaining popularity ever since, are the latest word in crypto mining.
2018-9-15 17:31 | |
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Chen Min, formerly Canaan's chief chip maker, is releasing a line of ethereum ASICs through her new venture, Linzhi.
2018-9-14 19:05 | |
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Miners are discussing whether they can get a hardware change added to remove ASICs from an upcoming ethereum software update.
2018-9-11 11:00 | |
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In December 2018, the long-awaited mining equipment - Mineberg BTC Immersion Chassis with a hashing power of 130 terahashes per second based on the new BitWare 7nm SHA256 ASIC chip - will appear on the market.
2018-8-31 10:47 | |
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In December 2018, the long-awaited mining equipment – Mineberg BTC Immersion Chassis with a hashing power of 130 terahashes per second based on the new BitWare 7nm SHA256 ASIC chip – will appear on the market.
2018-8-30 23:06 | |
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve been reporting on the wide variety of new cryptocurrency miners entering the digital asset economy. Some of these newly created miners are bringing faster processing power and more optimized chips, while others have even built mining rigs that tether to a water-cooling system.
2018-8-28 21:55 | |
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The crypto industry has scored another first, as a junior U. S. Senator from Montana, Steve Daines, has lobbied against the planned closure of a coal-fired power plant in Rosebud County, arguing that its closure could harm the growing cryptocurrency mining industry in the state.
2018-8-28 19:11 | |
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In the face of the coming difficulty bomb and reduction of block rewards, some in the community are pushing for ASIC-resistant consensus algorithm ProgPOW to maintain decentralization.
2018-8-28 01:02 | |
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A hydroelectric dam in eastern New York State is being converted into a dedicated crypto mining farm, taking advantage of low-cost, renewable energy, according to Dpw Holdings whose subsidiary is building the mining farm.
2018-8-28 17:15 | |
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Following a high-level proposal in July to ban the importation of all cryptocurrency mining equipment into Vietnam, the Vietnamese Customs Department has announced a total ban on all mining rig imports, according to a local news outlet.
2018-8-16 21:58 | |
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Over the weekend, information surfaced that could suggest that mining giant Bitmain may be facing an uphill battle as it looks to launch an IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
2018-8-15 00:47 | |
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The production of ASIC mining rigs has always been somewhat controversial. Because the miners using ASIC are considered by some blockchains to be “cheating,” many companies have to constantly come out with new versions of their own ASIC tech in order to dodge the bans and patches on major cryptocurrency blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. […]
2018-8-13 19:55 | |
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The digital currency industry had been facing fears of centralization as BitMain, world’s largest crypto mining setup, had come to control about 70-80% of the entire scene and the ASIC miners were dominating the space.
2018-8-9 05:20 | |
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How Does the Canaan Avalon A9 a 30 THS Bitcoin ASIC Miner Work? We have some fresh information about the next generation of the Avalon A9 Bitcoin ASIC miner. The Canaan Creative gave some clues about the miners based on 7nm technology and that will be providing 30 THS hashrate using 1720 Watts of power […]
2018-8-6 21:19 | |
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Chinese mining company Bitmain has announced it is exploring new policies that will boost the company’s transparency and communication with the cryptocurrency community.
2018-7-26 19:33 | |
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Although the ideas behind the current Ethereum protocol have largely been stable for two years, Ethereum did not emerge all at once, in its current conception and fully formed. Before the blockchain has launched, the protocol went through a number of significant evolutions and design decisions.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Bitmain, known for its Application Specific Integrated Circuit [ASIC] miners, has recently proposed developing and implementing a protocol for smart contracts on the Bitcoin Cash [BCH] blockchain. The proposals reportedly emerged from Chinese WeChat groups comprising of developers from the company.
2018-7-18 14:24 | |
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The cryptocurrency mining sector is poised for imminent shakeup thanks to the latest news about new mining hardware being launched soon. Even though Bitmain has been rather secretive about what kind of mining equipment they are releasing, it is expected to be a mini version.
2018-7-14 12:08 | |
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Bitmain has introduced a lot of new ASIC miners over the past twelve to eighteen months. Most of those devices have been met with a fair amount of scrutiny, mainly because they facilitate mining centralization.
2018-7-13 19:00 | |
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The mobile-based crypto coin has seen a difficulty increase again as ASIC miners are back in the game.
2018-7-9 11:29 | |
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According to a Chinese language Economic Daily News report, graphics cards and ASIC mining systems are expected to see a short-term surge in orders from the crypto mining sector in Sichuan province, where reportedly over seventy percent of the mining systems are located in China.
2018-7-6 18:50 | |
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The cellphone-based blockchain platform, Electroneum (ETN) performed a U-turn by bringing ASICs back to confirm transactions after originally forking to become ASIC-resistant. Electroneum’s founder and CEO, Richard Ells, said in the company’s Telegram group they decided to take ‘urgent action’ and re-introduce ASIC miners, reversing a fork that had integrated ASIC-resistant code at the end of […] The post U-Turn: Electroneum Fork Welcomes ASICs Back To ETN Network appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2018-7-6 01:30 | |
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Bitcoin Gold announced successful activation of hardfork, aimed at making it impossible to mine the cryptocurrency on powerful ASIC miners and centralize the network.
2018-7-5 20:02 | |
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Bitcoin Gold changed its existing Equihash PoW algorithm to Equihash-BTG in a bid to stop ASIC miners and double-spend attacks.
2018-7-4 19:04 | |
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Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away.
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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According to the results of a governance panel led by the Zcash Foundation and announced at the Zcon0 conference in Montreal on Thursday, the ballot, which proposed to prioritize ASIC resistance and “discourag[e] the use of ASIC mining equipment in favor of [graphics card] mining equipment,” saw 19 votes in favor, with 45 votes against
2018-6-29 09:47 | |
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Members of the zcash community have voted not to prioritize ASIC resistance.
2018-6-29 20:02 | |
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Mining pools controlled by the largest Chinese ASIC miners producer Bitmain, mined more than 42% of bitcoin blocks last week, and their share in the network hashrate is growing, making a '51% attack' on bitcoin more real.
2018-6-26 22:14 | |
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In the case of currencies using the Equihash algorithm, it seems a large amount of the combined hashrate is provided by ASIC hardware. It’s a worrisome development which could introduce a lot more 51% attacks in the future.
2018-6-18 08:21 | |
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This week the Zcash Foundation and researchers from the University of Luxembourg have released a study that finds the presence of ASIC and FPGA miners may be controlling around 30 percent of the overall Equihash mining hashrate.
2018-6-16 22:45 | |
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ASIC miners has rapidly captured more than 30% of the ZCash hash rate. Miners are afraid that mining on ASICs will gain controll over 51% of the network in a couple of weeks.
2018-6-16 21:09 | |
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The shift has already started; finance is moving onto the blockchain, leveraging the decentralization and disintermediation benefits of the technology’s architecture.
2018-6-14 23:52 | |
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DeepHash leads 2025 cloud mining with renewable energy farms, AI optimized yields, fast daily payouts, and the highest earning short term contracts.
JPMorgan upgraded Cipher and CleanSpark, and cut targets for MARA, RIOT due to the increased risk of shareholder dilution. Bitcoin miners are increasingly diversifying their operations from hashrate to high-performance computing.
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin-miner Bitmain Faces Federal Investigation Over National Security Issues: Report Bitmain, the Chinese manufacturer behind many of the world’s Bitcoin miners, has been under US national security scrutiny for potential espionage or sabotage risks, including in Trump family-backed ventures, though the company denies any wrongdoing.
Hive Digital stock jumped by over 500% from its April low to its October high; it pivoted to AI and HPC industries. But its Bitcoin mining revenue is still strong.
Bitcoin crossed a watershed moment in its monetary history on Nov. 17, surpassing 19. 95 million mined coins and pushing the network past 95% of its immutable 21 million supply cap. This leaves the network with less than 1.
Cloud mining beats solo mining as Bitcoin climbs, and GBC Mining offers a $20 bonus plus instant hash power for daily BTC earnings with no hardware needed.
Power markets are starting to price Bitcoin mining that can switch on and off as a grid service. Curtailment remains elevated in regions with high renewable penetration, and short scarcity bursts continue to set value for fast demand reduction, which creates room for load that soaks midday surplus and idles during tight hours.