The Radeon RX 480 was released onto the GPU market without much fanfare, sold as a mid-range card at a low price – which is exactly how it performs. Despite the excitement in the gaming press about AMD’s Polaris architecture and the RX (and upcoming Pro WX) line of GPUs, particularly about the card’s price point, it seems to have been glossed over by the crypto…
In an amusing twist on thefiat vs digitalmoney debate, a former Federal Reserve employee who tried to fuse the two, was sentenced to 12 months’ probation and fined $5, for installing unauthorized software on a Fed server to connect with a bitcoin network, the Office of the Fed s Inspector General said. According to the WSJ, Nicholas Berthaume, who worked as…
Although many individuals who deal in Bitcoin do not mine their own coins, it is definitely a great skill to have. By actively partaking in Bitcoin mining, whether you do it manually or by utilizing specialized software, you will begin to understand how Bitcoin works on an entirely new level, as you will be involved in the entire process. Here is our beginner’s…
Bitcoin mining is getting more and more competitive and obviously development of mining equipment gains in importance. Companies that produce mining equipment are striving to ensure that their customers have the most advanced technologies at their service, therefore they invest largely in its development. UFO Miners boasts their experience in this pursuit of…
Even though I am a fond of huge in-house bitcoin mining rigs, I also love to experiment on PC altcoins’ mining, in an attempt to find the best altcoins one can mine using his/her PC. Accordingly, I decided to look through the altcoins one can mine with his PC and GPU. After researching through a considerable number of coins, which can be mined without ASICs…
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The bitcoin mining difficulty has undergone another major change. It seems the difficulty continues to increase by a higher percentage over the past few months. This latest change represents mining getting 16.64% more difficult, indicating a lot of new hashpower has come online over the past two weeks. It is unclear if this is the case, although the latest generation…
Bitcoin, Dogecoins, and other cryptocurrencies have grabbed a lot of headlines for their explosive growth (and bust, and growth, and, well…). The trick is that generating this currency— mining it—requires an awful lot of computing power. But wait! Instead of computers, let s use lots of smartphones! Unfortunately, security company Lookout says that the math…
Venezuelan authorities are cracking down on Bitcoin mining facilities and are focused on “weakening” these mining operations within the region. According to reports on January 27, the Organized Crime Bureau of the Bolivarian National Police (BNP) shut down an 11, unit Bitcoin mining undertaking. Also read: Venezuelan Bitcoin Miners Arrested for ‘Electricity…
What is Bitcoin Mining? New to bitcoin? Get started with – easy way to buy small amounts of bitcoin with cash Bitcoin mining is making computers do complex math problems to help run the Bitcoin network, and miners are paid with bitcoin for contributing. Bitcoin mining itself is the process of adding new bitcoin transactions to the blockchain – the public ledger…
With the surging popularity of Bitcoin, congestion on the Bitcoin block chain is rising. This has severe implications for the cost of a bitcoin payment. Constrained Supply and Rising Demand Miners currently observe a 1mb limit on the overall size of each Bitcoin block, which constrains Bitcoin to around 300, transactions per day. We’ve been bumping up against…
Ability to compute a lot of hashes very fast with dedicated hardware is a problem for password hashes, but not a new problem. Before the advent of ASIC specialized in SHA-256, we were already taking FPGA into account (see for instance this research machine, from already five years ago). An ASIC can roughly be clocked at two to three times the frequency of the…
After reading many, many different articles all over the internet, I still didn t have a good idea of what bitcoins were, how they could be made, and if it was possible for the average person to use them. The first few things I read, they were made out to sound like you had to have a computer science degree to get them. However, after reading on about them, I…
There are ways to profit with bitcoin mining. Ways to earn from bitcoin mining typically involve upfront investment of mining hardware. Raw mining earnings are calculated by mining power of your bitcoin mining hardware, measured in hashes per second, and the current difficulty and block reward of the bitcoin network. Most modern hardware measures its power in…
“The failure of the Klondike project was one. Chase, our bank, shut down our accounts. Also the delay in the shipment of the chips has resulted in a lot of customers asking for [a] refund, ” said someone using the TerraHash account in the official TerraHash forum. “We already owe a lot of money to PayPal, and with all the refund requests, it is impossible for…
Setting up a mining pool will require some programming, so based on your self-identification as a business man, I would suggest to start with asking yourself how much this will be worth to you. Many would say that running a bitcoin pool is likely a bit of an altruistic endeavour: If you want to attract people to join your pool, you are competing with others…
When you build a mining rig you need to take into consideration are you going to ever want to use the GPU s for something else? If so buy with them brand new and make sure you get it the GPU registered since they will be cranking at 100% at about 75C. If not get them used, I prefer this method as you can buy a 6850 for about 75 bucks if you do it right. Also…
MGT Capital Investments Inc first announced its debut into the Bitcoin mining business in late June and has reported its mining rewards for Phase One. The Bitcoin operation started when John McAfee, creator of McAfee Antivirus, took over the MGT earlier this year and has steered the company into Bitcoin and Blockchain technology. “We appreciate the efforts of…
Fundamentals Hello Miners! Some of you may have already voted, but others might be wondering what for is the voting feature on Slush Pool. It is actually quite simple! In mind with the philosophy of decentralization, Slush Pool has decided to give our miners a say in the blocksize debate. If you do not know what is the debate over the blocksize, please check…
They pay for, house and maintain the machines, and you lease (a part of) the machine for a year. The cost is around $2 per GH/s (Gigahash per second) for beginning plans and towards $1.7 per GH/s for larger plans. The payouts are done automatically per day to your desired Bitcoin address. I was offered to test their 150Gh/s plan. It costs $279 a year, and it…
Biostar announces its latest B250 motherboard to join its product line this generation with the introduction of the BIOSTAR TB250-BTC mining motherboard designed for dense bitcoin mining operations. Press-release: The new BIOSTAR TB250-BTC motherboard features enhancements provided by the new Intel 200 series as well as improved efficiency by the latest 7th-generation…
A few months ago, we ran out of X11 contracts and every day, we received more and more emails from customers asking when they would be able to buy X11 contracts again. Well, the day has finally come! X11 is back and better than ever! Our new X11 mining will feature brand new ASIC technology that no other mining company is using. What does this mean for you? BETTER…
The long wait for my Avalon ASIC 3 bitcoin miner was finally over. Almost my entire stash of bitcoin went into this purchase (just over 100btc). Based on the bitcoin mining calculators at the time, this thing was going to pay off my mortgage and then some. Unfortunately, it showed up several months beyond the promised delivery date which, given the increase in…
What do the 1950s military avionics technology and bitcoin mining servers have in common? In a word – heat, or, more precisely, cooling requirements. Blowing cold air over the innards of military aircraft and satellite electronics 60 years ago was as inefficient as blowing cold air through power-hungry bitcoin mining servers today. It was in the 50s that 3M introduced…
Can data centers tap unused server capacity to mine for Bitcoins? The question occurred to the team at the online backup service iDrive , which performs most of its customer backup jobs overnight, leaving its 3, quad-core servers idle for much of the day. So the company ran a test with 600 servers to see whether Bitcoin mining could become a secondary revenue…
Screenshot A multi-player server on the wildly popular video game Minecraft has introduced bitcoin to its world as a way of teaching children about digital currency. While in-game currencies exist in several different minecraft worlds, using bitcoin means that players can take their money out of the game and use it in the real world too. The server, PlayMC, features…
The people who got rich during the California and Alaskan gold rushes were not the gold miners, but the business who sold the shovels (and other supplies). Or at least that s how common wisdom goes. And it makes sense. Anyone can buy a shovel or a bitcoin mining rig, there s not much barrier to entry. Profitability should approach break-even or worse as new entrants…
