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%...

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...

Intel has registered a patent for a processor and a hardware accelerator developed specifically for the SHA-256 encryption algorithm used in Bitcoin mining. This equipment is tailored for mining the leading cryptocurrency and is designed to make it more efficient and less energy-intensive...

According to research by the Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI) group, only two of the twenty-five largest cryptocurrency exchanges do not artificially inflate trading volume in pairs with Bitcoin. The ranking of platforms compiled by BTI, based on real daily trading volume rather than on the data that crypto exchanges provide to CoinMarketCap (CMC), was topped by Binance...

The decline in the value of cryptocurrencies — both Bitcoin and altcoins — lasted throughout 2018 and continues even now. Compared with December 2017, digital money has dropped in price many times over. And a reasonable question arises: what to do with your cryptocurrency assets so as not to regret it later?