Mining
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170Final countdown to Ethereum’s Constantinople upgrade – here’s what you need to know
It has happened! The Ethereum Constantinople/St. Petersburg upgrade successfully completed at 19:52 UTC on the 28th February 2019. Here’s everything you need to...
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143$320m CME trade just happened – the biggest ever. Bitcoin futures jump $500 – the bulls are back in town
On 18th February at around 01:00 UTC, somebody placed the biggest ever trade in the history of CME futures. Approximately 16,000 contracts...
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158Binance’s CZ to Elon Musk: Let me trade Bitcoin for a Tesla
Elon Musk has long been fan of crypto and despite many hundreds of fake Elon Musks offering free (fake) giveaways over the...
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126Chinese mining giant Bitmain reports $500 Million loss
Mining hardware giant Bitmain lost about $500 million in the third quarter of 2018 due to the current bear market according to reports,...
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155Chinese Bitcoin mining whale predicts Bitcoin will surge to at least $74,000
Zhu Fa, co-founder of crypto mining pool Poolin, has made a bullish statement on Bitcoin’s price. In a WeChat group he predicted that...
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164Australian police mistake crypto mining rig for suspected pot farm
A man is demanding answers after his quiet suburban home was raided by Australian police, tipped by members of the public who...
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187Firefox to offer cryptomining blocking in May release
Mozilla, the non-profit open-source software foundation, is adding new cryptomining and fingerprinting protection options to its custom content blocking preferences in Firefox...
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143Are you mining for cryptocurrencies – or is someone else?
As investments in cryptocurrency become more popular, threat actors have started to develop coin mining malware to take advantage of its increasing...
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198Miners flock back to Bitcoin as its hashrate hits three-month high – Bitcoin price recovery may be imminent
After hitting a low of 32 million TH/s, Bitcoin’s hashrate has seen a marked recovery in recent weeks indicating miners are showing...
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181Big changes coming at Bitmain, as cryptocurrency mining giant looks to rebuild
It looks like there’s going to be a change at the top for Bitmain… It’s been a taxing few months for Bitmain,...
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153Chinese crypto mining giant looks to U.S. IPO
Having stepped away from seeking a Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing, one of China’s large crypto mining hardware makers is now looking...
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153The cryptocurrency mining market has claimed another victim
The sizeable Japanese e-commerce firm DMM has abandoned its ambitions to become one of the biggest cryptocurrency mining firms in the world…...
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130Georgia state senator indicted for insurance fraud involving crypto mining machines
Michael Williams, Republican senator for the US state of Georgia, has been indicted for a number of charges including insurance fraud.
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1602018, Bitmain, and the fall in cryptocurrency mining
As crypto’s value has dropped across the board, so too has the cost effectiveness of crypto mining, and nowhere has felt the...
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124Bitmain confirms layoffs as the cryptocurrency mining fall pinches hard
Bitmain denies that half of its workforce is being laid out – but confirms that job losses are incoming… One of the...
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136Over 1 million Bitcoin mining machines have been turned off in the last six weeks
The cryptocurrency mining industry is facing very heavy pressures… Yesterday, we reported on the findings from BitMEX, that demonstrated how the mining...
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149Was the bitcoin price fall due to a sell-off by miners?
Research suggests that unusually large amounts of bitcoin moved from miner wallets during November. Yesterday, we looked at research by BitMEX that...
