China's Bitmain Technologies is eyeing bitcoin mining sites in Quebec, a company spokesman told Reuters, as expectations of a potential Chinese crackdown
on cryptocurrency mining make the energy - rich Canadian province an attractive alternative.
Not exact matches
Then it called
on local exchanges to stop trading in
cryptocurrencies and outlined proposals to discourage bitcoin
mining — the energy - intensive computing process that
makes transactions with the digital currency possible.
The data center will have the flexibility to switch between
cryptocurrencies to focus computing resources
on the most profitable cryptocoins,
making it capable of
mining numerous
cryptocurrencies.
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Many investors insincere that the use of Xunlei's cloud acceleration height
on mining rigs
made it a good suppositional gamble
on cryptocurrencies, and the stock surged scarcely 250 % after the announcement.
«In recent months, CrowdStrike has noticed an uptick in cyberattacks focused
on cryptocurrency -
mining malware that takes advantage of available CPU cycles, without authorization, to
make money,» the firm wrote, noting that it «expects to see much more» of this activity moving through 2018.
Further, anyone who
mines cryptocurrencies will have to pay taxes
on the money they
make as well.
A post
on Google's Chromium blog today
makes it clear: The search giant won't allow any new
cryptocurrency mining extensions
on its browser's web store, and those already
on it will soon get the boot.
The company is the first
mining entity to focus
on Dash, a
cryptocurrency that allows users to
make instant, private payments online or in store using a secure open - source platform hosted by thousands of users around the world.
Previously, Google allowed
cryptocurrency miners in the Chrome Web Store as long as this was their sole purpose and they specifically informed users about it, but the rise of malicious add -
ons that did nothing else than to eat CPU resources in order to run
mining scripts in the background
made the search giant change its mind.
The TSSB details that the firm's website and promotions have allegedly been
making deceptive and misleading statements when soliciting Texas residents - promising 20 to 100 percent returns
on investments within one to three months through the firm's
cryptocurrency mining and trading services.
While Nvidia officials have declined to comment
on rumors that the famous graphics cards manufacturer is developing GPUs that are specifically
made for
cryptocurrency mining, Huang recently hinted to analysts that the company offers coin miners «a special coin -
mining SKU [that is] optimized for
mining.»
The main goal of Litecoin Cash is to enable miners to
make efficient use of their SH -256-design hardware, as they can use it
on mining multiple
cryptocurrencies.
Blockchain enthusiasts are cashing in
on the
cryptocurrency gold rush by
making their own hardware rigs for
mining tokens like zcash and ether
on the Ethereum network.
The decision was
made at the same meeting which Neowin reported about earlier in the week; the ban
on the
mining of other
cryptocurrencies is a new detail that has since emerged.
Unlike fiat currencies, which are
made on government printing presses, Bitcoins and other
cryptocurrencies are
mined, but the process is an entirely different kind of
mining.
This all
makes Ethereum potentially one of the best investment opportunities in the
cryptocurrency market, with huge growth
on the horizon if this
mining process switch is implemented correctly.
MGT Capital, the John McAfee led technology and bitcoin
mining company, who in the past year has
made a big push towards growing its Washington State data center has today provided a clearer update for stockholders
on the recent transactions of the company with clear metrics regarding the present status of its
cryptocurrency business.
To
make matters worse, these malicious
cryptocurrency mining programs are sometimes accompanied by adverts for fake antivirus programs that install much more malware
on people's computers.
On the other hand, digital currencies are not forbidden, which (together with low
mining costs) has
made China one of the largest
cryptocurrency markets in the world and home for some of the most popular
cryptocurrency exchanges, including BTCC and Huobi.
China
makes a similar move, cracking down
on cryptocurrencies by banning the
mining of the most popular ones within China, citing energy waste and environmental concerns, but likewise fearing the risk of Bitcoin as a vehicle for capital flight.
Microsoft Windows servers around the globe are playing host to a
mining botnet known as Smominru Monero, which may have
made as much as US$ 3.6 million for its operators based
on the current value of the monero
cryptocurrency.