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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
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
Bitmain has released its Ethash ASIC miner with the first units set to ship in mid-July. #NEWS Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
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 says mining in Chrome extensions will no longer happen after June. #NEWS Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
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
Chairman of Kazakh National Bank cites lack of regulation and possibility for money laundering as case to ban crypto mining and exchanges to the national currency. #NEWS Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
Higher education is the industry more likely to crypto mine or be cryptojacked than four other surveyed industries combined, new report shows #NEWS Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
A report published by cybersecurity company Vectra has detailed what it describes as an “alarming surge in cryptocurrency mining on college campuses.” Also Read: Markets Update: Cryptocurrencies Lose Over 20 Percent This Week Colleges Become Hotbed for Mining Activities Vectra’s report asserts that opportunistic students, malicious hackers, and even cryptocurrency mining scripts hosted by websites, are sapping … Read more
The chairman of the central bank of Kazakhstan said that the bank has prepared legislation to prohibit the sale and purchase of cryptocurrencies in the country as well as any kind of crypto mining, citing several risks he sees. Also read: Japan’s DMM Bitcoin Exchange Opens for Business With 7 Cryptocurrencies National Bank’s Crackdown on Crypto … Read more