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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. Now another new SHA-256 mining rig … Read more
Media accounts are leaning toward blaming a supposed lack of interest in cryptocurrency as the reason US chip behemoth Nvidia has backed out of the mining industry. It was only a little over a year ago the company hoped to make an impact in the space. Whether it’s the industry losing steam or the simple … Read more
On August 23, the China-based firm Bitmain Technologies revealed the company’s latest mining device, the Antminer S9 Hydro. The newly manufactured rig is a water-cooled SHA256 miner that commands a hashrate of around 18 trillion hashes per second (TH/s). Also read: Innosilicon’s T2-Turbo Bitcoin Miner is Powerful, But GMO’s B3 is Still the Champ The Antminer … Read more
He’s not flashy. He doesn’t post photographs of himself aboard yachts, arm-in-arm with scantily-clad groupies. A safe bet would be to assume he doesn’t own a sharkskin suit. Instead, his preference seems to be in the background, slightly obscured, faded almost. And yet he is arguably the most important man in cryptocurrency right now, and … Read more
Language in tech giant Bitmain’s investor deck alludes to investment from DST Global, despite recent official statements to the contrary Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
DST Global has denied involvement in crypto mining giant Bitmain’s IPO in an email to Cointelegraph, just days after SoftBank did the same. Reports have surfaced that Tencent was also not involved Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
Over the past few months, the idea of Bitcoin Cash powered token assets has been at the forefront of a lot of conversations. So far over the last few weeks, we’ve seen a slew of representative token creation platforms like Bitmain’s Wormhole, and Bitprim’s Keoken. Now, this week the developers at Cryptonize.it have launched a … Read more
Japanese tech giant Softbank denies alleged investment in Bitmain, and investment from Tencent remains unconfirmed. Bitmain has refused to comment Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
Bitcoin.com launches a powerful developer framework for token creation on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain, adding a significant rival to Ethereum, just days after Bitmain announced their Wormhole protocol. Developed by Bitmain, Wormhole–an Omni Layer fork–represents the latest step in enabling crowdsales, tokenization, ICO creation, and permissionless smart contracts, all on Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and without … Read more
A new competitor is advancing on plans to enter the mining hardware market by the end of the year. Canadian company Squire Mining has raised almost $20 million to finance the design, development, and testing of a new ASIC chip and bitcoin mining rig. Squire also wants to set up its own crypto mining facilities. … Read more