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Meanwhile, Mr Amewu said he will propose to cabinet to extend the ban on illegal and small scale mining since an initial assessment indicates set targets have not been achieved.

Not exact matches

The first attempt to scale the network which was presented at the Hong Kong roundtable consensus event failed and it took over a full year since then for the Bitcoin industry, mining community and developers to come to a consensus to activate SegWit.

The task force since its composition last year has arrested some 983 illegal miners, violating the government's ban on small - scale mining.

But the group has since the government's renewed fight against illegal mining in the country, expressed its dissatisfaction, particularly on the basis that even those operating with requisite licence have been boxed together with the illegal ones It has been demanding that government draws the line between illegal small scale miners and legitimate small scale miners with licence.

The government has since taken a number of actions including suspending the issuance of new licences for the small - scale mining in the country, and it has announced the retrieval of some illegal mining equipment, surrendered by the operators following the massive drive to clamp down on their activities.

He said the moratorium placed on small scale mining by the government was good, saying since then, turbidity levels of water bodies had been declining drastically, and urged all to come on board to help stop «galamsey» in the country.

Since bitcoin mining was started on industrial scale somewhat recently, the cost to mine has skyrocketed comparatively recently as well and this has been reflected in the actual bitcoin exchange rate.

Since then, I have been focusing my work on artisanal and small - scale gold mining (ASGM) and mercury related issues.

Since then, there's been no shortage of drama - mining firm Bitmain was accused of blocking SegWit in order to boost its revenue; major bitcoin companies and mining pools united behind their own scaling plan; and finally, unhappy with the plan, users equipped with GIFs and branded hats responded with a kind of revolt.

The dastardly business dealings between Facebook and the billionaire backed firm Cambridge Analytica have been making headlines since the New York Times revealed that the firm mined data on some 50 million Facebook users in order to manipulate the feelings and thoughts of Facebook users and tip the electoral scales in favor of the candidacy of Donald Trump.

Since then, the price of bitcoin has risen dramatically and bitcoin mining has evolved to become a large - scale industrial operation.