Sentences with phrase «used by cryptocurrency miners»

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.

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

Not exact matches

China plans to limit power use by some bitcoin miners, people familiar with the matter said last week, a potential challenge to an industry whose energy - intensive computer networks enable transactions in the cryptocurrency.

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.

The idea behind an initial miner offering is that mining hardware — used for the energy - intensive process by which new transactions are added to a blockchain — is sold and intended to process a particular cryptocurrency or token.

Additionally, if you are using the lesser known Brave browser, it has been offering protection against malicious cryptocurrency miners by default since September.

Three widely used Mac apps infected with cryptocurrency miners have been flagged by security researchers this week.

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The decision to carry out the hardfork was made after the Chinese mining equipment manufacturer Bitmain, the largest one of its kind in the world, had released an ASIC miner Antminer X3 for CryptoNight algorithm, used by Monero and several other cryptocurrencies.

Sadly, and in spite of the good use of a cryptocurrency miner, Coinhive is in the position of many other helpful instruments that have been misused by criminals.

According to a new report released by security researchers the latest attack has seen hackers use double cryptocurrency miners to exploit a vulnerability in the Oracle server to spread two cryptocurrency miners simultaneously.

So far in 2017, cryptocurrency miners have taken over the market for consumer graphics processing units (GPUs), using the devices to solve the cryptographic puzzles required by ethereum (and other «scrypt» - based cryptocurrency protocols) and claim their lucrative rewards.