If you bought, sold, or
mined cryptocurrencies in 2017, the professionals at Happy Tax can help you prepare your tax returns this year.
Apps hiding under the mask of games or streaming apps have secretly been using smartphone processors to
mine cryptocurrency without the user's knowledge.
From past few months, the miners having hard time
mining cryptocurrencies as with the high difficulty level getting every single day.
In the meantime: There are a few nifty tricks you can use to make sure no websites are stealing your CPU cycles to
mine cryptocurrency without your consent.
This is largely as a result of increased demand from buyers not looking to play games but rather using the hardware for
mining cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, driving sales of GTX 1060 and 1070 cards immensely.
However, it doesn't stop websites themselves
from mining cryptocurrency in people's browsers — either surreptitiously or openly, as some media companies have been trying out as an alternative to making money through advertising.
The company says that it aims to effectively use its surplus electricity by
mining cryptocurrencies with the output of its solar power generation plants.
In Cryptocurrency Mining, you need resources like a computer and a special software program that helps in solving complicated mathematical problems
while mining a cryptocurrency.
Mining Mainstream web magazine Salon has started allowing its readers an ad - free site, if readers
start mining cryptocurrency for them, after sustaining a decline in income due to ad blocking technology.
Mining Malware that
surreptitiously mines cryptocurrency while you browse the web is big news right now — literally in the case of news outlet Salon, which has enabled it as an opt - in feature.
On Sunday, the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre issued a statement that it was «examining data involving incidents of malware being used to
illegally mine cryptocurrency.»
«The technique of delivering cryptocurrency miners through malware has been used for several years, but it is likely in 2018 - 19 that one of the main threats will be a newer technique of
mining cryptocurrency which exploits visitors to a website.»
The QC - 1
mines the cryptocurrency Ethereum and can radiate a nice heat source for up to 300 sq ft. «Make heating a source of revenue, not an expense,» explains the company.
«Right now it's not millions, but this money has been made in three weeks at almost zero cost... this analysis well illustrates the whole web, so it's safe to say that one of every 40 websites
currently mines cryptocurrency.»
It was only last week, The Venezuelan Government told that it will be recruiting its citizens to
mine cryptocurrencies via cryptocurrency mining farms.
Here are the big takeaways: Security researchers discovered RedisWannaMine, an attack that uses the EternalBlue exploit found in WannaCry attacks to
fraudulently mine cryptocurrency.
Security firm Check Point reports that malware that covertly
mines cryptocurrency infected 55 % of businesses in December, climbing to the top of its most wanted malware list.
While
normally mining cryptocurrency falls to large companies who have the financial power to profitably run such an operation, for Ingram and Ryland it's a much riskier enterprise.