Sentences with phrase «by cryptocurrency miners»

More than just capable, they're one of the main tools used by cryptocurrency miners.

There have been rumors that the increase in demand from northern Kosovo was caused by cryptocurrency miners moving into the area to take advantage of the free electricity.

A mining pool is a network of shared processing power by cryptocurrency miners where the reward is split equally,...

Chip maker AMD has seen its sales buoyed in recent months by big demand for graphics cards by cryptocurrency miners.

Nvidia is seeing the same trends in the graphics card market as everyone else — increased demand driven by cryptocurrency miners — and the company is taking a two - pronged approach to tackling the issue, Nvidia executives said recently during an earnings call with investors.

A mining pool is a network of shared processing power by cryptocurrency miners where the reward is split equally, yet also dependant on how much each member contributed to finding a block.

It has been reported that more than 3 million graphics cards were bought by cryptocurrency miners in 2017, with sales reaching $ 776 million.

Hydro - Quebec has indicated that it will not be able to meet the scale of power demanded by cryptocurrency miners, following an apparently overwhelmingly successful campaign designed to attract investment from the mining industry.

There's no magic fix in sight for the amount of energy gobbled by cryptocurrency miners — but at least the method used is relatively secure.

Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund Managing Director, has expressed her concern about the growth of electricity consumption by cryptocurrency miners.

At least two Canadian forestry companies are reviewing offers by cryptocurrency miners who want to lease excess mill space in Quebec, a province where electricity prices are among the lowest in North America.

That's nearly a billion dollars pumped into the GPU market by cryptocurrency miners alone.

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Local entrepreneurs, Ilya Frolov and Dmitry Tolmachyov, have developed a functioning prototype for an underfloor heating system that utilizes the heat generated by cryptocurrency miners.

Nvidia must increase its production of graphics processing units (GPUs) to address a shortage caused by cryptocurrency miners, said the company's chief executive on Monday.

Following a massive rise in purchases of graphics cards by cryptocurrency miners, tech company Nvidia is asking its partners selling their products to prevent people from buying their graphics cards in bulk, because gamers are unable to buy them before they sell out.

Industry - wide, shipments of add - in boards — which house the external graphics cards used by cryptocurrency miners — were up 31 percent from the first quarter to the second, according to Jon Peddie Research, a market research firm which tracks GPU sales.

According to the BBC, the current graphics card shortage driven by cryptocurrency miners isn't just hurting gamers, it's also impeding our efforts to find evidence of a better civilization out there — one that is free of overzealous cryptocurrency miners.

In the 10 - K, AMD indicated that several factors could change the environment on the GPU front, highlighting market and regulatory risks that could lead to a decline in the number of GPUs being bought by cryptocurrency miners.

The international security team has resolved the issue by creating GPU hubs powered by cryptocurrency miners.

Stepping back, the move is just the latest from GPU manufacturers whose products have been swept up by cryptocurrency miners.

Scientists involved in projects which need advanced computer hardware are finding their efforts dampened due to supplies being snapped up by cryptocurrency miners.

After suffering through rampant ransomware attacks, the internet is now being overrun by a new category of threats caused by cryptocurrency miners.

Nvidia must increase its production of graphics processing units (GPUs) to address a shortage caused by cryptocurrency miners, said the company's chief executive...