Cryptocurrencies

On the night of Wednesday, December 19, the difficulty of mining Bitcoin fell by 9.5%, which increased the profitability of mining the cryptocurrency. At the beginning of winter, the mining difficulty of Bitcoin underwent the second largest drop in its entire history — by 15%...

At present, 90% of all Monero has already been mined. What next? Next comes an emission period called Tail Emission. The issuance of coins will not stop, but the block reward will decrease and will amount to 0.3 XMR per minute...

The other day, while using NVidia GTX 1060 3 GB graphics cards for mining rigs, a problem was discovered - these graphics cards have simply stopped mining ETC and will soon be done with Ethereum. And this situation is sad also because, at current exchange rates, a rig of even eight GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards earns only about 2 dollars in ETH equivalent...

On December 17, Western Union Global Money Transfer, a company specializing in providing money intermediary services, announced its readiness to work with cryptocurrencies to facilitate international payments. Odilon Almeida, president of Western Union Global Money Transfer, said that Western Union is ready to make maximum use of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies in its operations...

In the run-up to the New Year, hackers appear to be working tirelessly, releasing ever more new kinds of malicious software. Just recently researchers discovered a new variety of cryptojacking malware called L0rdix...