Vincent Saggese, 34, is reported to have admitted to meeting an undercover agent last year where he is alleged to have tried selling computer equipment including bitcoin mining equipment from KnC Miner. A ten-year veteran of Plainfield Police Department, Saggese faces a probation period of up to five years and must serve 50 hours of community service. This isn’t…
Australian bitcoin miner Bitcoin Group is returning $5.9m it raised from investors after the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) said the firm needed to raise more capital and resubmit its application. The firm said in a 9th March statement to investors that it would return the funds after Australian securities officials deemed the firm ineligible to list due…
It should pay 100USD for every 713 shares (diff as I type). That refers to shares of a certain difficulty: diff 1 Litecoin shares or diff 65, 536 shares according to some mining clients (notably CGMiner). Each found share has its difficulty. If the share s difficulty is equal to or higher than the worker s difficulty, it gets submitted by the worker and accepted…
UPDATE (16th July 22:55 BST): Updated with comment from bitcoin core developer Peter Todd and Peernova president Emmanuel Abiodun. The draft summary of the summit can be found below. A summit meant to address the threat of 51% attacks against the bitcoin network has resulted in a renewed industry commitment to protecting the digital currency s transaction processing…
Although mining Bitcoin with regular computer hardware is no longer profitable, that isn’t keeping criminals from giving it a try. Over the past few years, there have been several types of Bitcoin mining malware, infecting computers all over the world. Three different types stand out so far, although it is expected more strains of this malware will pop up in…
Security researchers have spotted a new strain of malware that targets Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer virtual currency that exploded onto the tech scene earlier this year. In a report issued last week, Symantec researchers described a Trojan that uses the user s computer to mine Bitcoins on behalf of the intruder. They estimate that, at current exchange rates, a fast…
The official logo of Bitcoin, a digital cryptocurrency. But while it s generated a furore in the community of underground hackers and crypto-anarchists, most people are bemused by all the fuss. What is this bitcoin business, and why is it so important? Let s start at the beginning: What exactly is bitcoin? Australian Craig Steven Wright claims to have created…
If we do some quick math, we can determine the following: If SHA-1 collisions can be found in 2^65.3 hashes, that s one SHA-1 collision found every 45 seconds . Every combination of bits can be flipped in an 84-bit keyspace every year . If mining is done strictly with ASICs and each ASIC can produce 1 trillion hashes per second, that s 1, , ASICs . If each ASIC…
Over 100 miners responded to the question, and there are pros and cons on both size for maintaining the status quo or getting ahead of the curve. Here is what each side of the argument generally looks like, and a pie chart with the results of the poll below. Against an increase of the block size: Bigger blocks will destroy the market for transaction fees: If…
NEW YORK (InsideBitcoins) — Want to make money mining for bitcoin? If you think the cost of heavy-duty hardware stands in the way, consider a new cloud mining system being offered by GAW Miners, priced at an economical – and practically unbelievable — $15.99. But can you really make money with this thing? With the company’s Hashlet, a user buys a certain amount…
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This is the third feature in our three-part series on the growing data center market for Bitcoin mining. Read the first one about a new breed of colocation for Bitcoin infrastructure or the second one about the tough economics of being a data center provider for customers in the Bitcoin mining business. Bitcoin mining operations are expected to spend at least…
New research has found that unless the price of bitcoin goes up, there will be little room for new miners to compete. In Minting Money With Megawatts , released this September, Sveinn Valfells of Flux, Ltd and Jón Helgi Egilsson of the University of Iceland conduct a broad analysis of the health of transaction processing on the open public blockchain, ultimately…
As if running the third-largest bitcoin mining pool wasn t enough, China-based Bitmain announced the launch of its second mining pool yesterday. Unlike the other large mining pools, though, the new offering (launched through its subsidiary BTC.com) will be open sourced to its community of users. According to Bitmain, the pool is not meant as a replacement for…
With the release of the latest generations of powerful mining hardware such as the Bitmain AntMiner S7 and Avalon 6 that is available to normal miners and not only to large mining operations along with the increase of the Bitcoin price lately mining for Bitcoin has started to become profitable again. As a direct result of the new hardware getting released and…
I have very limited knowledge of bitcoin, but, I hope you don t mind my asking this question: As I understand it, mining bitcoin requires significant computational prowess. A lot of dedicated mining rigs have been built out of FPGAs, ASICs and GPUs. But, I have always wondered: would it not be possible to mine ALL the bitcoins if you had access to some of…
The Bitcoin Map was a nameless project based on the analysis of addresses exchanged by bitcoin nodes. (This is not to be confused with a collaborative map of Bitcoin exchanges, miners and users titled The Bitcoin Map.) Based on the collected information, and by passing the collected IPs through Maxmind s GeoIP database, a map was created. It was suggested on…
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Cryptocurrency mining is, as most forms of passive income, a very attractive investment, but not everyone has the technical expertise, time or space to buy new graphic cards, ASIC machines or other mining equipment. There is an alternative, however, you can rent hashing power online. There are several services that allow this service, the most common is cloud…
For Steve Vittitoe, bitcoin is a fun way to make some extra money. This unassuming 31-year-old family man, who is a computer programmer for a cybersecurity firm, runs a mini bitcoin-mining operation from the basement of his home in Valparaiso, Ind. It s as if there s a machine in my corner printing money,Vittitoe said. In one corner of his basement he has set…
The big news in the Bitcoin world, is that one entity, called GHash, seems to be in control of more than half of all of the mining power. A part of Bitcoin’s appeal has been its distributed nature: the idea that no one party is in control but the system operates through the cooperative action of a large community. The worry now is that GHash has too much power…
A government is the one who decides when to print paper money. However, due to the fact that Bitcoin is decentralized, it has a different way of churning coins: mining. There are two main aspects to mining: confirming transactions to the block chain and introducing new bitcoins to the system. To become a Bitcoin miner all you need is to run software with its…
Last week, the price of one Bitcoin surged above $1, 227, the price of an ounce of Gold. And the headlines soon followed, screaming, “Bitcoin worth more than Gold.” The implication, of course, that Bitcoin is the new Gold in the world. In reality, however, Bitcoin is hardly the “new” Gold, real or digital. In arguing for Bitcoin’s allure, enthusiasts tend to…
Bitcoin mining has become concentrated primarily in China, leading many in the community to believe that the country has too much power in what is supposed to be a global, borderless digital currency. In fact, mining pools located in China account for more than 60% of the total network power. Now, one Chinese mining hardware company and pool operator, Bitmain…
Editor’s Morning Note: Let’s end the week with a chart that points down. Bitcoin Mining In Action. Via NSA Archives. Happy Friday, friends, and welcome to our final entry together for the week. May the day go well, and when you reach that moment when you are finally closing more tabs than you open, enjoy it. The line shows the rise and fall in the dollar revenue…
Bitcoin mining today is dominated by mining pools. These mining pools arguably have a strong hold on the Bitcoin network, but also on their own participants. Since mining pools typically operate with little transparency, participants must issue a lot of trust in pool operators not to cheat them out of Bitcoin. Czech Republic-based Slush Pool – accounting for…
The only reasonable way is to join a cloudmining operation. One such operation is called and it has been running since 2014. They are still paying out profits daily without a problem. You can get started on with 6.20$ worth of Bitcoins, about 0.01 BTC, which will get you 20 kilohash/s. Your initial investment will be returned in approx. 2~ months. You can get…
