Monero Successfully Upgrades Its Protocol
Monero (XMR), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency launched in 2014, announced that it has successfully performed a protocol upgrade on March 9, 2019. Hard Fork Aims to Improve...
Bitmain Adds 5 New Billionaires to China’s Wealthiest List
China’s latest rich list for 2018 sees five billionaires joining China’s wealthiest for the first time thanks to Bitmain’s market lead on cryptocurrency mining. The Hurun...
David Vs. Goliath: Companies Like MicroBt Look To Challenge...
Bitmain is well-known across the cryptocurrency community for dominating the mining hardware market. Some think the Chinese giant might be losing its edge, and a growing number of...
Sia Announces Hard Fork to Brick Bitmain ASICs
After close to a year of debates within its community, Sia has finally gone ahead with a hard fork to brick out Bitmain and Innosilicoin ASICs. Following the hard fork, only miners...
BTC Price Signals a Bull Market! What Cryptos Could Follow? (EVX...
BTC price once again has torn through resistance levels and with many October catalysts seems to be on the cusp of a bullish breakout. Could a bull run be on the horizon? Market...
Bitmain Fights Rumors by Launching New ASIC Chip
As Bitmain’s IPO date approaches, negative news involving the company could add up. The CEO of Bitmain, Jihan Wu, countered the pessimism by launching a brand new “algorithm...
Mining Firm Bitfury Debuts New ASIC Chip
Bitfury has announced the release of a new Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chip, as well as a new generation of its Bitcoin mining hardware. The Bitcoin mining firm...
Nvidia Calls Off Cryptocurrency Mining Production Amid Low Earnings
Graphics chip manufacturing giant Nvidia saw huge growth in late 2017 and throughout most of 2018 as demand for its high-end Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), used for cryptocurrency...
Squire Ltd. to Develop Next Generation 10nm ASIC Chips and Trade...
Squire Mining Ltd. recently announced the closing of a non-brokered private placement equity financing of Canadian $25,500,000 to fund the developing, manufacturing, and selling data...
Will AMD and NVIDIA Give Up on GPU Mining as Cryptocurrency Prices...
Graphics card manufacturers NVIDIA and AMD have been raking in huge profits — thanks, in part, to the influx of cryptocurrency mining over the past year. Recently, however, the...
Bitcoin Gold Plans Hard Fork to Prevent Further 51% Attacks
The Bitcoin Gold (BTG) team plans a hard fork as a solution to two pressing issues: the prevention of future 51% attacks and the threat of ASIC miners flooding its network. The team...
Nvidia Expects 2/3 Decrease in Sales to Crypto Miners in The Next...
Nvidia announced that they had a successful 1st quarter in terms of sales, in part due to the fact that cryptocurrency-related sales boosted their revenues by 10%. Despite the good...