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Here’s how proof-of-stake chains, where the network is secured by staking, could help to solve today’s mining problems
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New code for mining pools could fix problems associated with transaction censorship and more, say its supporters.
2019-12-3 13:00 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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Using the TRON network for derivative asset creation may cause problems similar to EOS.
2019-11-11 14:54 | |
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On one hand, everything seems to be going well for the cryptocurrency market with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have regained most of its lost value, while also seeing an overall positive sentiment.
2019-10-27 16:37 | |
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Ethereum’s Ropsten testnet is currently unstable following the activation of the Istanbul upgrade, a stepping stone towards ETH 2. 0. The testnet is currently mining on two separate chains.
2019-10-2 20:14 | |
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It’s about remembering the people who were there in the beginning. All the cryptocurrency in the world traces its origins to raw mathematics — if you can solve complicated math problems faster than anyone else, then you stand to profit.
2019-8-26 10:28 | |
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Litecoin (LTC) miners are facing problems recently. Many of them have decided to unplug their mining devices after the most recent halving happened. Data from the LTC network shows that the difficulty is going down because of that.
2019-8-24 23:37 | |
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Chinese Bitcoin Miners Allegedly Stealing Electricity Through Fish Ponds To Power Mining Activity One of the problems with Bitcoin mining is its halving. Bitcoin’s next halving is expected to take place about a year from now in May 2020.
2019-6-13 21:53 | |
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Programmatic Proof-of-Work [ProgPow] has undoubtedly been one of the most controversial upgrades of Ethereum. The algorithm that promises to ward off ASIC mining would probably not make it till after the Istanbul hardfork.
2019-5-24 14:55 | |
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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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What Is Ammut? AMMUT is a digital platform that is designed to provide a holistic model that answers to multiple technologies. Specifically, the AMMUT platform is ideal for solving problems that require high computing power such as deep learning, mining, scientific calculations, 3-D rendering, and CGI rendering among others. The software enables anyone to easily […]
2019-5-8 11:03 | |
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You might have contemplated getting into cryptocurrency mining but are concerned that you don’t have the technical skills, time or money to invest in the field. Cloud mining eliminates these problems and lets you benefit from joining forces with a large operation.
2019-4-28 11:35 | |
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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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In the present scenario of blockchain technology, cryptocurrency mining plays an imperative role. Miners are the ones that solve mathematical problems, generate new blocks, and verify transactions within the blockchain network.
2019-3-16 10:23 | |
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The level of centralization in mining is one of the more credible problems with Bitcoin today. While there has not been much activity in terms of actual attacks made possible through mining centralization (although some would refer to SegWit2x as an attack), it does add questions to the level of security offered by various layer-two […] The post BetterHash Can Improve Bitcoin Mining Decentralization, But When? appeared first on Coinjournal.
2019-3-12 16:15 | |
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Alistair Milne, the chief investment officer at Atlanta Digital Currency Fund, has said that the block reward halving of Bitcoin could push the price of the dominant cryptocurrency to massive gains in the next 12 months.
2019-3-9 19:47 | |
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There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology.
2019-3-1 19:43 | |
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In January of 2019, student Conner Brown attended a guest lecture by a Professor Susan Athey at the University of Stanford Graduate School. She gave a presentation to his “Evolution of Finance” class titled “Blockchain and the Future of Finance.
2019-3-1 03:39 | |
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In a blog post published February 18, 2019, the Chinese cryptocurrency mining juggernaut Bitmain announced the launch of their next generation 7nm ASIC chip, named BM1397. The new chip facilitates faster and more economical mining for cryptocurrencies that use the SHA256 algorithm for computation of mathematical problems.
2019-2-20 13:00 | |
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Zcash mining is more lucrative than bitcoin mining. Its hash rate has grown by over 400 percent within the past 12 months. The post Zcash Mining More Profitable Than Bitcoin & Ethereum, Faces Inflation Problems appeared first on CoinCentral.
2019-1-29 23:46 | |
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One problem that concerns many is the centralization of mining within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Fortunately, there are talented developers working to solve this problem and Matt Corallo, full-time Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, is one of them.
2019-1-26 23:50 | |
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Last year ended with major problems in the crypto mining industry, as Bitcoin mining started to become less fruitful. GMO Internet Group, a major force in the IT industry in Japan, recently published a monthly report on the mining operations that happen in-house.
2019-1-9 23:07 | |
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Although Proof-of-Work (PoW) has proven through Bitcoin to be the most secure mechanism for securing a blockchain, this past year has shown that mining as we know it is not secure. As PoW problems be continuously revealed and amplified over the course of 2018, the value and success of mining has been increasingly contended.
2019-1-2 09:08 | |
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INTRODUCTION We want to build an exchange website known as Bittrader where many coins will be listed and the main pair will be the TRD Coin. Similar to Binance, some of the notable features of Bittrader include strong security, privacy, and untraceable features.
2018-12-11 09:03 | |
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The Israeli research and development arm of cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain will close, resulting in the firing of all 23 staff due to market “turmoil. ” Glikberg: Bitmain ‘Forced’ To Reevaluate As local media outlet Globes reported December 10, Bitmain, which continues to face financial problems of its own this year, will formally end all activities at its offshoot just three years after it began operations.
2018-12-10 18:00 | |
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Electroneum (ETN) have provided the community with the following update: There’s been quite a few reported issues with the existing mobile miner having problems. Unfortunately we’ve taken the decision that instead of spending time tracking down the bug (we spent dozens of man hours on that), the time is better spent racing to finish off a …
2018-12-13 14:00 | |
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Bitcoin mining is a term that everyone in the cryptocurrency and even many outsiders are familiar with. This is a process performed by high-powered computers (also known as nodes), which solve complicated computational math problems.
2018-12-5 17:47 | |
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Bitcoin mining is a term that everyone in the cryptocurrency and even many outsiders are familiar with. This is a process performed by high-powered computers (also known as nodes), which solve complicated computational math problems.
2018-12-3 17:43 | |
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Bitcoin slid even further downhill this weekend, as the crypto market shed a total $17bn in market capitalization. But the problems might be just the beginning, as further drops threaten to cause a domino effect in the incentives that keep mining networks running.
2018-11-27 22:42 | |
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Centralization in the cryptocurrency has been an ongoing struggle over the past few years. This issue has become apparent in the mining department, but also on the exchange side of things. A recent brief AWS outage in South Korea caused major problems for a lot of domestic trading platforms.
2018-11-23 10:31 | |
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Charles Hoskinson is best known today as a co-founder of both Ethereum and IOHK, where he leads the research, design and development of Cardano. But before these projects, there was Bitcoin.
2018-11-20 23:08 | |
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Bitmain has denied reports that its CEO Jihan Wu was ousted as the mining firm’s board director while confirming that the board has undergone restructuring. Setting the record straight, Nishant Sharma, international marketing manager of Bitmain Technologies Limited, told Bitcoin Magazine that, instead of losing his position, Wu will continue on as a co-director of the board amidst a wider reorganization.
2018-11-15 21:26 | |
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As a company looking to give users full control over their digital rights, Blockstack is piloting a new app mining program that encourages designers to create new applications directly on Blockstack’s platform and earn rewards in bitcoin.
2018-10-24 00:30 | |
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Introducing The Daily 2, the all new video series by Crypto Daily and proclaimed crypto evangelist, Brian Wilson. Don’t miss a thing, be sure to subscribe to The Crypto Daily Official YouTube channel which can be found here.
2018-10-15 15:00 | |
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There has been a wealth of news of late about China and the Chinese authorities new position on cryptocurrency. In the shortest possible terms, the government want to totally ban cryptocurrency trading and investment and wish to stamp out the Bitcoin culture that has slowly built up in China.
2018-10-15 23:00 | |
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OsiaNetwork LLC has reached out to the Federal Election Committee (FEC) in the hopes that it will allow computer sharing for crypto mining for campaign donations. Osia says it would like to be the platform in which volunteers share their computer power to mine cryptocurrencies, which are then donated to political campaigns of their choice.
2018-10-5 23:57 | |
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Giga Watts launches new data centers to smooth cryptocurrency mining problems The current cryptocurrency mining business is getting less and less profitable as more coins are mined. This has caused one of the largest cryptocurrency mining solutions company in North America, Giga Watts, to add more data centers to boost the crypto mining communities. The […]
2018-10-2 05:31 | |
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Monero has officially released its Malware Response Workgroup website yesterday. In an effort to help protect Monero’s community, the website aims to provide resources to educate about the types of malware that may take advantage of users.
2018-9-29 23:18 | |
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Bitmain have announced the release of a new mining rig, specifically designed for the mining of Decred. Named the Antminer D3, the new rig will mine Decred at 7. 8 TH/s. The mining economy is sat within a spot of difficulty at the moment.
2018-9-24 15:30 | |
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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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BitForex has announced that it will continue with its controversial reward model, which is known as transaction mining. The exchange introduced the feature in early August, and according to COO Garrett Jin, the “transaction mining system has been running well” ever since.
2018-9-10 19:48 | |
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University College, the oldest College at Oxford University have announced that they are to open a blockchain research centre, led by the ex-head of Oxford’s computer science department, Professor Bill Roscoe.
2018-8-29 17:30 | |
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Based on five-year-old research, Bitcoin enthusiasts and critics alike have often held that Satoshi Nakamoto originally mined some 1,000,000 bitcoin in the early days of the network.
2018-8-24 01:05 | |
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Nearly a thousand people have signed a petition for the extradition of Leh Minh Tam, the CEO of Sky Mining, a cryptocurrency mining firm based in Ho Chi Minh City. The signatories are calling for Tam’s deportation from the United States following allegations that he fled after defrauding investors of $36 million.
2018-8-5 17:00 | |
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MetaMask, a popular web plugin that functions as an Ethereum wallet and allows users to run dApps in their browser, was briefly removed from Google Chrome’s web store today. Users speculated that the removal was related to Google’s ban on extensions that can be used for mining.
2018-7-26 21:36 | |
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MetaMask, a popular web plugin that functions as an Ethereum wallet and allows users to run dApps in their browser, was briefly removed from Google Chrome’s web store today. Users speculated that the removal was related to Google’s ban on extensions that can be used for mining.
2018-7-26 03:38 | |
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Crypto Mining hardware maker for Apple, Nvidia, and Bitmain lowers GPU sales prediction figures due to low demand. Manufacturers also face saturation problems. The post Nvidia Chip Maker Lowers Prediction Figures Amidst Changing Crypto Mining Trends appeared first on CoinCentral.
2018-7-24 05:12 | |
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With bitcoin becoming more competitive, a new organization looks to bring decentralization back to mining by renovating the Proof of Work (PoW) consensus algorithm that some miners have come to love.
2018-7-18 19:00 | |
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With more and more instances of malicious mining attacks, people are failing to recognise the problems that can be caused by this sort of activity. Often, these sorts of attacks can be seen as harmless, at the end of the day, they simply just utilise a small amount of your computing power, right? Whilst this may be the case, often, there is a great deal of principle that needs to be considered here.
2018-6-29 17:30 | |
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Monad's EVM network now features dWallet Network's multi-chain DeFi, enhancing developer capabilities and interoperability. The post dWallet Network enhances Monad with multi-chain DeFi support appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Industry watchers are hoping for a younger, tech-savvy cohort of politicians that can push innovation-friendly policy forward.
By not having a strong infrastructure with RPC node runners, many blockchains can offer good services today, says Yair Cleper. The post “We don’t see killer apps because blockchain structure is not reliable today”: Lava Network core contributor appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Tanssi Foundation's "Lets Forkin' Dance" is an incentivized testnet campaign designed to enhance the Tanssi's ecosystem. The post Tanssi launches incentivized campaign for its Dancebox testnet appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Nibiru Chain invests over $15M in developer grants to support its smart contract platform's growth and ecosystem expansion. The post Nibiru Chain reveals $15 million grant for developers appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
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