This news closely followed the recent announcement from Russian Miner Coin (RMC) which plans to raise $ 100 million worth of cryptocurrency and start a large -
scale bitcoin mining operation to compete with China.
Not exact matches
If you need evidence of this fact, consider China's massive state
mining operations and stake in
Bitcoin, undeniably viewed as a tool for leverage on a global
scale.
The MoonLite project is an industrial
scale cryptocurrency
mining operation focusing (initially, at least) on the
mining of
bitcoin, litecoin, and dash.
Importantly this means that Ethereum
mining will always be limited to GPUs and will be resistant to specialized hardware and the application - specific integrated circuits (ASICs) that are used to
scale Bitcoin operations.
By raising the capital required to operate a very large
scale mining operation, Moonlite is positioning itself to be one of the few
bitcoin and other cryptocurrency
mining operations that can mine profitably at current levels and current prices.
Instead, it focused on one proposed solution for curbing the overwhelming influence of Chinese
bitcoin mining operations, which are quickly spreading on an industrial
scale.
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Bitcoin mining is moving on to large -
scale operations but there are strategies for individuals to earn money still.
Since then, the price of
bitcoin has risen dramatically and
bitcoin mining has evolved to become a large -
scale industrial
operation.