Sentences with phrase «big mining operations»

It wouldn't be surprising to see more big mining operations pop up in the country as demand for cryptocurrency grows — which inevitably puts more strain on the network.

This steady decline of the bitcoin price began to question the profitability of big mining operations due to high energy costs.

Wu Jihan, CEO of Bitmain Technologies Ltd., the world's biggest mining operation, said in an interview that regional governments are welcome to legally set up bitcoin mining farms which are clean and considered part of the high - tech industry.

Nevertheless, China is still the home of the world's biggest mining operations.

Not exact matches

(Kitco News)- Miners could not even see Canada's biggest gold deposit until «glacier receded» and uncovered what lay beneath, according to one mining executive with operations in northern British Columbia.

The control of the difficulty adjustment is extremely important because bigger miners could artificially warp and influence the mining difficulty by switching their operations on and off to get greater gains.

BTC.Top, the third - biggest mining pool, is opening a facility in Canada and ViaBTC, ranked No. 4, has operations in Iceland and America, their founders said.»

It is unclear whether this is a full on ban of bitcoin mining or simply a closure of the biggest mining farms, but after banning crypto exchanges and ICOs, China now seems to be moving towards fully curtailing bitcoin operations.

Barrick Gold Corp., the world's biggest producer of the metal, will start shutting down production at its Zambian operation after the southern African country tripled mining royalties.

The administration's biggest move modifies the corps's issuance of «nationwide permits» to preclude their use to authorize the discharge of debris into water bodies from surface - mining operations in Appalachia.

(Molycorp Minerals — the biggest rare - earth mining operation in the United States — optimistically calls them «the green elements.»)

The leases were at Arch Coal's Black Thunder mine and Peabody Energy's North Antelope - Rochelle mine, among the biggest operations of two of the world's biggest coal companies.

The cumulative impact from many small, artisanal mining operations can result in just as big a mess as a conventional open - pit mine.

We used to think only big commercial mining operations could have a significant environmental impact.

And like any mining operation, oil sands extraction has a big impact on the environment:

Big Data is capable of mining clients for their legal needs, examining and interpreting legal invoice data, and analyzing performance reviews and other human resources data and can provide a «genetic road map» for much of the law department's operations.

Hackers exploiting Jenkins servers made $ 3 million in one of the biggest malicious cryptocurrency mining operations ever.

When Bitcoin mining became profitable, the entire process shifted from a home - computing - PC - mining operation to big - business - industrial - operations.

China - based bitcoin mining firm Canaan Creative announced yesterday it had agreed to sell its operations to a publicly listed electronics firm in a deal that would mark the biggest exit for a bitcoin company to date should it be approved by local regulators.

Many of the biggest cryptocurrency mining operations are located in China, while others are scattered around the world.

Although the country is still the biggest powerhouse when it comes to Bitcoin mining, multiple operations have reportedly shut their doors in the past few weeks.

As Bloomberg noted, until early 2017 China was the biggest market for bitcoin trading on exchanges, and some of the largest cryptocurrency mining operations on the planet are located there.

But for small U.S. towns in upstate New York and Washington, a mining operation makes a big dent in local energy resources.

That psychological warfare tool was a complex data - mining / analysis / manipulation program used «to bring big data and social media to an established military methodology — «information operations» — then turn it on the US electorate,» according to Wylie's interview with The Guardian.

Many of these operations moved their infrastructure to cooler regions to mine Bitcoin, with one of these big mining farms burning to the ground.