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Mining
Looking for alien life and folding proteins was a thing long before crypto mining with your computing power became a thing. And while the SETI@HOME project has announced that it will stop distributing work and will go into hibernation at… Continue Reading →
The Ethereum Classic (ETC) crypto project has reduced the block reward for miners from 4 ETC to 3.2 ETC as per their monetary policy after just reaching block number 10 Million. This 20% reduction has been introduced with the acceptance… Continue Reading →
It has been a while since we have last talked about PegNet (PEG) CPU mining at the Orax Pool, so we have decided to check if there is any development lately. Well, there is apparently a new miner since the… Continue Reading →
If you thought crypto could not get any weirder, then think again, the latest genius idea comes from the Czech adult industry in the form of a porn video with an adult model having sex with a crypto farm operator…. Continue Reading →
The ProgPoW mining algorithm is still not widely used by crypto projects, some of you migh remember Bitcoin Interest (BCI) as the first to switch their PoW mining to ProgPoW, but now the project is pretty much dying a slow… Continue Reading →
The latest NBMiner 27.7 update comes with improvements for Handshake (HNS) and HNS + ETH Dual mining on Nvidia GPUs, bringing a bit better performance as well as some fixes like for the NVML initialization failure on certain cases and… Continue Reading →
The Scala (XLA) project, formerly know as Torque (XTC), and Stellite (XTL) prior to that, may have some controversy surrounding it along the way, but we are not going to be talking about that. The project has just released their… Continue Reading →
The Alternative.me website analyzes emotions and sentiments from different sources and crunches them into one simple number called The Fear & Greed Index for Bitcoin and other large cryptocurrencies. The crypto market behavior is very emotional. People tend to get… Continue Reading →
A few days ago we have mentioned the Handshake (HNS) project and the fact that mining has recently started with GPUs and FPGAs that offer slightly faster hashrate at a bit lower power usage and that ASIC miners are also… Continue Reading →
The latest GMiner 2.00 miner adds support for the ProgPoW algorithm used by the Super Zero (SERO) project. SERO’s use of the ProgPow mining algorithm is not new,but apparently it has lately caught more attention of users and hence more… Continue Reading →
The latest release of the XMRig 5.9.0 comes with support for a new RandomKEVA algorithm to be used by and upcoming Kevacoin (KEVA) fork as the relatively new crypto project currently uses CryptoNoght R as proof of work algorithm. The… Continue Reading →
It seems that the Todek TODDMINER C1 is not going to be the only Eaglesong ASIC miner out there, Bitmain is also joining the fun with their Bitmain AntMiner K5 ASIC miner. The TODDMINER C1 promises to deliver 1.6 TH/s… Continue Reading →
The DERO project is another crypto that last year had announced their plans to switch the mining algorithm to a RandomX variant and they are finally doing it. Tomorrow, March 7th at block 4550555, marks the time that DERO will… Continue Reading →
Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root DNS naming zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing Certificate Authorities and naming systems. Handshake is an experiment… Continue Reading →
It is not only the Brave browser struggling to attract users with its advanced privacy features and crypto token rewards, there is also the CryptoTab Browser that tries to attract users with its crypto mining features. Both are Chromium-based browsers,… Continue Reading →
It seems that the mysterious 21 company is continuing to try to figure out what and how they should capitalize on their huge investments and Bitcoin. Their latest incarnation is a combination between an email and social media service with… Continue Reading →
Bitmain has announced their new Antminer S19 series of SHA256 Bitcoin ASIC miners, though only specifications for now, no price and availability info. The Antminer S19 has 2 variants, a 95 TH/s and 90 TH/s model, with a power efficiency… Continue Reading →
There is apparently a new ASIC miner coming right around the corner called TODDMINER C1 for the Eaglesong algorithm used by the Nervos (CKB) project. The device is made by a new Chinese company with the Toddminer being their first… Continue Reading →
AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Processor is the latest and highest-end workstation CPU from AMD offering staggering 64 cores and 128 logical threads to the user or with other words really massive performance if you can manage to take advantage. The… Continue Reading →
Applications and services trying to get people from outside crypto currencies to start mining are nothing new for example Minergate. The problem with these however is that they are targeting regular users that may not have the right hardware for… Continue Reading →