The police warn of a rise in malware and ransomware attacks on users of Claymore
Ethereum mining software and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Not exact matches
A newly discovered variant of the Satori botnet is targeting computers dedicated to
mining cryptocurrency to steal
Ethereum coins by exploiting a flaw in the Claymore Miner
software, researchers have reported.
As
Ethereum's core developers and the majority of its community went ahead with the hard fork, the minority that stayed behind and didn't upgrade their
software continued to
mine what is now known as
Ethereum Classic (ETC).
He is a co-creator and inventor of
Ethereum, described as a «decentralized
mining network and
software development platform rolled into one» that facilitates the creation of new cryptocurrencies and programs that share a single block chain (a cryptographic transaction ledger).
If you'd like to try
mining or developing
Ethereum software (ICOs, tokens, dapps), or if you just want to control your own node and thus your own wallet's key, thereby signing your own transactions instead of relying on third party
software, installing and getting to know Geth and Mist is definitely worth the trouble.
Speaking in the meeting, core developer Piper Merriam went so far as to detail a proposal to mitigate the
mining hardware, an action which, while requiring a change to
ethereum's underlying
software would keep lower - cost GPU cards as the primary
mining mechanism.