Iran Bans Crypto Mining Due to Power Shortages
Iran is taking strong measures against crypto mining. By introducing a temporary ban, the local authorities are trying to prevent excessive energy consumption caused mainly by unregistered farms mining BTC, among other things.
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May 27, 2021
China to Ban Crypto Mining? BTC Exchange Rate Dips
Bitcoin mining in China may be restricted or banned - the value of BTC is dipping.
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May 25, 2021
Chia Cryptocurrency Eats SSDs, but Remains Popular
Chia is eating up SSDs at an alarming rate, but this does not discourage its miners. The popularity of the new cryptocurrency is growing all the time.
hardware & software
May 24, 2021
Important Changes in Mining Ethereum Give Hope to Players
Big changes coming to one of the major cryptocurrencies - ETH. You can even risk calling these updates a small revolution. Is it possible that the twilight of crypto mining as we know it today is coming?
hardware & software
May 20, 2021
Chia Cryptocurrency Can Damage SSDs in the Span of Few Weeks
It turns out that the increasingly popular Chia cryptocurrency does not only affect the availability and prices increase of SSDs. First information about the increased failure rate of SSD media, which wear out very quickly during the mining proces, appeared on the web.
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May 12, 2021
Dogecoin Drops; Elon Musk Will Re-launch It to the Moon
Elon Musk joked on Saturday Night Live that Dogecoin is a scam. The stock price plummeted. Now SpaceX will send a satellite to the moon and pay for it in Dogecoin.
hardware & software
May 10, 2021
Dogecoin Is Worth More Than Activision Blizzard and Twitter
Thanks to recent price increases, capialization of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency reached nearly $87.7 billion. This means that it has a higher market value than companies like Nintendo, Activision Blizzard, Ford and Twitter.
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May 5, 2021
Nvidia to Refresh Entire RTX 3000 Line Because Cryptocurrencies
According to unofficial reports, Nvidia is preparing to refresh the entire GeForce RTX 3000 series. Apparently, crypto miners have contributed to the release of the new revision of all Ampere GPUs. What changes can we expect?
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April 29, 2021
Russian Man Arrested in US for Laundering $336 Million in Bitcoin
Roman Sterlingov allegedly laundered 1.2 million BTC, worth nearly $336 million. He was arrested in Los Angeles after 10 years of operating the Bitcoin Fog mixing service.
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April 29, 2021
This Dedicated Crypto Mining Rig Gives Hope to Gamers Without GPUs
Bitmain is preparing another hardware for crypto miners. The Antminer E9 is expected to provide Ethereum yield equal to 32 units of the GeForce RTX 3080.
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April 26, 2021
HDDs at Record High Prices in Asia
HDD prices in China and Japan have even increased by more than 60%. The reason for the problems is the Chia cryptocurrency, which has sparked interest in this type of components.
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April 26, 2021
Cryptocurrency Exchange CEO Flees With $2 Billion
When it comes to stealing, there are sums worth taking risks for. This was probably the motto of the CEO of Thodex, a Turkish cryptocurrency trading platform, who fled to Albania after misappropriating $2 billion belonging to the investors.
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April 26, 2021
New Cryptocurrency Could Cause More PC Component Shortages
It turns out that the new cryptocurrency known as Chia may affect the availability and increase prices of other PC components. This time it would affect HDDs and SSDs.
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April 20, 2021
Radeon RX 580 Recall Frauds Reported in China
Chinese retailers have started scamming customers for AMD Radeon RX 580 GPUs, all due to their desire to make money from crypto mining.
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April 15, 2021
Elon Musk Wants Dogecoin on the Moon, Literally
Elon Musk came up with the idea to put the Dogecoin cryptocurrency on our natural satellite. He published such information on Twitter, and the price of DOGE immediately went through the roof.
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April 2, 2021
Nvidia Prepares a Crypto Mining GPU to Dethrone RTX 3090
According to leaks, Nvidia is working on the most powerful crypto mining device in history. The powerful chip A100 may be the heart of the 220HX, a card intended aimed specifically at miners.
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March 23, 2021
Hacker Steals Almost $6 Million in Crypto Tokens
Cryptocurrency website Roll fell victim to a hacker attack. Cybercriminals cracked passwords and stole the equivalent of $5.7 million in Ethereum-based tokens.
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March 19, 2021
AMD Will Not Restrict Crypto Mining on Radeons
AMD's Nish Neelalojanan confirmed that Radeons will not have limitations that would slow down Ethereum mining. Company's production manager believes that the very architecture of the new cards makes them a poor proposition for crypto miners.
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March 18, 2021
Nvidia Accidentaly Removed Anti-mining Limiter in RTX 3060
The performance limiter on cryptomining implemented in GeForce RTX 3060 was supposed to remedy the dire situation with the card's availability on the market. However, the safeguards have accidentally been removed in driver code.
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March 16, 2021
Bill Gates Warns: Bitcoin Mining Will Affect Climate Change
It's been almost six months since the next cryptocurrency boom began. Bill Gates warns that mining BTC and similar digital money will have a negative impact on the climate.
hardware & software
March 10, 2021