Price of Verge Holds Above $0.50 Despite Major Attack

The past day for Verge (XVG) represents yet another fiasco for the highly controversial Dogecoin fork. Hackers have managed to mine an XVG block every second through a timestamp exploitation coupled with a 51% attack. To make matters worse, hasty developer responses have actually rendered the network even more incapable through an ineffective hard fork. … Read more

Verge Is Forced to Fork After Suffering a 51% Attack

Verge, a ”privacy coin” famed for the zealotry of its community, has fallen prey to a 51% attack. A malevolent miner gained majority control of the network hashrate, a feat that makes it possible for the controlling entity to modify transactions, calling the integrity of the entire blockchain into question. Around 250,000 verge were stolen … Read more

Cryptocurrency Mining Industry Sees Influx of New Hardware

On April 3, 2018, the Chinese based firm Bitmain Technologies had launched it’s latest miner the Antminer E3. The new pre-manufactured mining rig processes the hashing algorithm Ethhash, the PoW consensus protocol for the Ethereum network. Lately, Bitmain has been releasing a bunch of new products including the Antminer X3 which mines Cryptonight algorithms for … Read more

PR: Ubcoin Raises More Than $1 Million at Pre-Sale and Starts Main Token Sale Event

Ubcoin Market, a peer-to-peer ecosystem that would allow its users to become crypto investors by selling real goods and receiving cryptocurrency in exchange, announces the start of the main stage of its Token Sale. The team behind the mobile payments app Ubank launches the Token Sale for its blockchain ecosystem called Ubcoin Market whose participants … Read more

Our Love and Hate Relationship with Bitcoin Miners

It’s coming close to a decade since the creation of the bitcoin network and the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The protocol has produced a great deal of users, infrastructure, businesses and influential parties like developers and miners. Since the beginning of bitcoin’s mining history, individuals mined lots of coins with central processing units (aka home computers). Later, … Read more

Google Moves Against Cryptojacking, Bans Chrome Mining Extensions

James Wagner, Extensions Platform Product Manager of Google, took to the behemoth’s Chromium Blog on Monday in a post titled, Protecting Users from Extension Cryptojacking. “Starting today,” Mr. Wagner explained, “Chrome Web Store will no longer accept extensions that mine cryptocurrency. Existing extensions that mine cryptocurrency will be delisted from the Chrome Web Store in … Read more