Jetlag’s grim. As you’ll have gathered from Ben’s post on Monday, I found that I was so tired on Monday I couldn’t speak coherently, much less read or write. So I ended up spending the day going through some YouTube videos I’d been pointed at, having decided that this required less energy than typing. One in particular demanded to be shared. Here’s a segment from…
Time to get nerdy. Bitcoin has mesmerized academics, computer scientists and economists alike, for cutting out the PayPals and governments usually required for digital money. Finally, researchers have an official setting to nerd out in. Tuesday, the University of Pittsburgh launched the first Bitcoin-only journal, Ledger, which tackles the interdisciplinary world…
Hello! Welcome to Coinbase. First and foremost, It s important to keep a sharp eye for scams when it comes to free bitcoin. Though if you look around, the bitcoin community has a lot of great ways to find bitcoin giveaways, incentivized games and even incentivized participation in discussions or other activity. Many bitcoin users have developed a great tipping culture…
Recently, a new Bitcoin startup called Coinlab attracted considerable attention from the community, raising $500, startup capital from Silicon Valley angel investors. Operating under the tagline “All your gamers are gold”, what the startup intends to do is to help game companies monetize “that 80% in the middle” – those users who have a significant commitment to…
Bitcoin mining is a slightly misleading name. No one swings a pickaxe into rough stones in order to find additional bitcoins. Bitcoin mining actually means adding more bitcoins to the digital currency ecosystem. There will be a total of 21 million bitcoin in circulation by 2140. So, how do new bitcoins come into existence? All the additional bitcoins have to be generated…
Note: Usage of this miner is deprecated. It is no longer supported. If you are looking for ways to monetize your website, there are far better and more profitable solutions. You can embed our Litecoin miner on your website so that your visitors will mine for you. You will not incur additional fees; all we ask is that you make it clear to your visitors that their spare…
Our new Bitcoin integration is available through BitPay and can be used alongside other payment services, like Shopify Payments and PayPal. We’ve had a lot of demand from our merchants to incorporate support for Bitcoin and we’re happy that we can make this integration available prior to this year’s holiday shopping season. Why Accept Bitcoin Payments With Shopify…
Miners secure the Bitcoin network and process transactions. Without miners, Bitcoin would be vulnerable to attack and become worth nothing. In return for their security and processing services, miners are rewarded with new bitcoins (and transaction fees). Blocks Each time a miner successfully solves Bitcoin’s proof of work algorithm that miner mined a “block”. The…
Hi, I just did a major overhaul to my computer, and part of that was installing a used Gigabyte 7950 3GB graphics card someone is willing to sell me. He wants me to use it a while to make sure it s going to be good for me, and to make sure it isn t going to fail since he used it quite a bit for bitcoin mining. He wants $75 for it, and to me that seems a little pricey…
AMD s flagship graphics card, the Radeon R9 290X, is difficult to find. Newegg, a popular PC component digital storefront is (as I write this) completely sold out, while Amazon s third-party sellers are offering just a handful at inflated prices. This is not a new phenomenon - AMD s cards have been difficult to find for months. The R9 290X was designed to offer PC…
What if you could use software to design hardware? Not just any hardware-imagine specifying the behavior of a complex parallel computer, sending it to a chip, and having it run on that chip-all without any manufacturing? With Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), you can design such a machine with your mouse and keyboard. When you deploy it to the FPGA, it immediately…
To be honest, this largely depends on your own opinion. But to what I understand, bitcoin faucets are merely a waste of time. If you think you can make a lot of money just by visiting some frivolous websites, then you’re probably wrong. In bitcoin faucets, all you are doing is wandering from one website to another trying to make some easy money. But the truth is…
