Mining

The Chinese crypto industry giant BitMain is to this day the largest manufacturer of ASIC miners and the largest player in cryptocurrency mining, despite the fact that its share declined by the end of 2018 — the share of pools affiliated with BitMain fell from 53% to 39% of Bitcoin's hashrate...

Premine refers to a way of easily mining crypto coins when a new cryptocurrency is launched. However, despite the name, premined coins may in fact not be mined at all, but simply embedded into the zero block, into the algorithm...

The research company Diar has presented an analytical report on the results achieved in the cryptocurrency market in 2018. The report lists the achievements and declines that occurred in the crypto market in 2018...

The cryptocurrency industry uses such terms as Instamine and Premine. They are often equated with each other, but in fact they have a somewhat different nature. In this article we will figure out what the term Instamine means, when Instamine occurs, and the consequences of Instamine arising in a crypto network...

At the annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled the next-generation RTX 2060 6Gb graphics card based on the new Turing architecture. This graphics card belongs to the mid-price segment and will replace the previous-generation GTX 1060 graphics card, which is popular among

Mongolia is known for its cheap electricity, and it is not surprising that mining companies choose this country for cryptocurrency mining. Thus, the Japanese company Ginco Mongol plans to significantly expand its mining capacity in Mongolia — at least 1000 new miners will be launched this year...

The 60-millionth coin has been mined on the Litecoin cryptocurrency network. The milestone LTC crypto coin was mined on Saturday, January 12. Thus, to date about 71.5% of the total issuance of 84,000,000 LTC has been mined...

Monero is the most popular coin among cryptojackers, who mine cryptocurrencies using hidden mining viruses. Scientists from the Carlos III University of Madrid and King's College London reached this conclusion after conducting a study. The next most popular cryptocurrency among cryptojackers is Bitcoin...

Despite the fact that the ProgPoW (Programmatic Proof-of-Work) algorithm existed earlier as well, until recently it did not generate such a buzz around itself. However, after Ethereum's (ETH) decision to switch from Ethash to ProgPoW in the near future, interest in this algorithm is beginning to grow...

The response to the Ethereum developers' decision to block ASIC miners' access to the Ethereum network was the intention of the Chinese mining company Linzhi to develop a new ASIC miner that will make it possible to mine Ethereum (ETH) using a new algorithm – ProgPoW...