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Will Paraguay Invest Its Excess Power Into Bitcoin Mining?
Paraguay’s Itaipú dam is posing an interesting dilemma to the country; the world’s most powerful hydroelectric plant gives it an excess of energy, but…
John Bogna 3 min read
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ASIC Resistance Is Still Worth the Fight for Egalitarian Mining, This Time With Merkle Tree Proofs (MTP)
ASIC resistance is worth pursuing for egalitarian mining with our new Proof of Work (PoW) algorithm, Merkle Tree Proofs (MTP). Although some projects have…
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Bitfury Considers Listing for $3 – $5 Billion in Europe’s First Major Crypto IPO
Following news of Bitmain and Canaan IPO filings in Hong Kong, Europe looks set to record its own first major crypto IPO, as blockchain…
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Zcoin Gives ASICs the Boot with Merkle Tree Proofs
In a direct challenge to the type of industrial-grade efforts that have transformed once-lone cryptocurrency miners into multi-billion-dollar oligarchies, Zcoin has held itself up…
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Princeton Research Claims China Motivated to “Kill” Bitcoin, Selfish Miners Governing 74 Percent of Network
A research study published on Oct. 5 claimed growing Chinese influence over the Bitcoin protocol is a “looming threat” to the $114 billion network.…
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Anonymous Twitter User Says They’ll Livestream a 51 Percent Altcoin Attack
A Twitter user by the handle GeoCold posted a tweet on Oct. 7 announcing their intention to wage a 51 percent attack against altcoin…
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Bitcoin Mining for Retailers Unprofitable, Bitmain Shifts Focus to Manufacturing Business
Rising costs and low profits push Bitmain to highlight manufacturing strength amid IPO preparations.
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This Revolutionary Use for Blockchain is Hiding in Plain Sight
I recently attended a panel of cryptocurrency experts (some of them skeptics) talking about cryptocurrency and then blockchain. The panel included computer science experts,…
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Bitmain Announces Next-Generation SHA-256 Antminer Chips
Bitmain, one of the largest cryptocurrency mining ASIC manufacturing companies, announced on Sept. 21 the release of new SHA-256 mining rigs at the World Digital…
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