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Wormhole and AMD Forge Alliance to Revolutionize Blockchain Interoperability

DIGIT — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 22:00:32 +0000

On Wednesday, the blockchain interoperability platform Wormhole revealed it is collaborating with the American multinational semiconductor company AMD (Advanced Micro Devices). Wormhole plans to utilize AMD’s Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology in order to bolster cross-chain communication and multi-chain scalability. AMD’s FPGA Tech to Power Wormhole’s Interoperability Ambitions Wormhole, an interoperability platform for blockchains, […]

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How Many People Mined BTC Alongside Satoshi? 2010 Data Shows Bitcoin’s Creator Wasn’t the Only Mining Whale

DIGIT — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:30:45 +0000

Throughout 2021, a great number of mysterious whale movements from miners who mined bitcoins in the early days have occurred. This week, 1,000 bitcoin from 2010 were transferred, and the miner has spent 11,000 bitcoin since last year. Old school whale movements like these have made some people assume that decade-old coinbase spends could stem […]

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Mining Rig Makers Race to Create Next-Gen Ethereum Miner Before Staking-Only Kicks In

DIGIT — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 01:00:14 +0000

The Ethereum network’s 2.0 transition has pushed the protocol to become one of the largest staking networks in the world with 1,683,905 ether locked into the contract worth $1 billion today. According to reports from China, while proof-of-work ethereum miners have two years left to mine the leading crypto asset, ten Chinese mining rig manufacturers […]

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Ravencoin Community Clash Over Mining Algorithm Continues

DIGIT — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:17:00 +0000

With ASICs increasingly dominating hash rate, the Ravencoin community is looking to build the project’s third mining algorithm

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FPGA vs ASIC Mining

DIGIT — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:20:29 +0000

The bitcoin mining ecosystem has undergone some massive changes over the past eight years. During the initial stage of bitcoin mining, using a computer’s processor was more than sufficient. Later on, software was developed to allow for GPU-based mining. Eventually, computers were replaced by FPGAs and the now ever-present ASIC miners. But what sets these […]

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