The company Bitmain, a Chinese manufacturer of equipment for mining cryptocurrency, the company called the release date of its new device lineup Antminer S17, writes Finance Magnates. According to today's announcement, the miners of the new generation will go on sale on April 9 and will be available to buyers all over the world. The devices are intended for the extraction of cryptocurrency on the SHA256 algorithm, including Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash . The company claims that the energy efficiency of the second-generation 7-nm chips used in the S17 model is 30% higher than that of their predecessors. “Although…
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Hasegawa Yun, the founder of Omise, the company behind the cryptocurrency project OmiseGo (OMG), denied the latest rumors that it was acquired by the largest private company in Thailand. Reported by the Cointelegraph. The information that Omise passes into the hands of the Charoen Pokphand Group for $ 150 million, was distributed the day before by The Block. In a letter to the Cointelegraph, Hasegawa Yoon, however, stated […]
Swiss President Uli Maurer (Ueli Maurer) said that the adoption of regulation for the blockchain industry should be implemented in a short time. Uli Maurer spoke on March 27 at the cryptocurrency summit of the CV Crypto Valley in the canton of Zug and announced that the country needs regulation for companies and projects in the blockchain sphere that will be “clear and easily applicable”. Maurer, who also holds the post of Minister of Finance, made this statement literally several days after the Swiss executive, represented by the Federal Council, began consultations with the local legislature on further amendments to…
The volume of daily Bitcoin transactions in March 2019 rose to its highest level in the last 15 months. Experts have not seen such a number of transactions since January 2018. The Blockchain.com service cites data, from which it follows that by now the number of transactions in the network of the largest cryptocurrency reaches 400,000 per day. Approximately the same amount of service analysts fixed in January last year, when Bitcoin was trading at the level of $ 10,000. At the time of publication of this material, the average rate of Bitcoin rose to $ 4195. On the eve…
The Cana Creative company, the second largest manufacturer of mining equipment for Bitcoin in the world, after the success of its A9 series, introduced a new Bitcoin miner Avalonminer A10. In the upcoming rainy season, the A10 model included several important advantages for mining Bitcoin . According to the Avalon team, the A10 was spent on research and development for about half a year, and as a result, a miner with a high hashrate output was created. According to the information in the official WeChat account , it is expected that the new bitcoin-ASIC will provide a data transfer rate…
Mining company Bitmain was in a difficult financial situation due to the decline in cryptocurrency market. Now her hopes are connected with the next bitcoin halving in May 2020, when the reward for adding blocks to his blockchain will be halved, and a possible increase in the price of cryptocurrency, as it was in previous times. Until the end of 2019, Bitmain intends to release its new flagship product, the popularity of which will be due to the expected rise in the market, writes the South China Morning Post, citing sources familiar with the company's plan. Bitmain reported that it…
The largest social network Facebook has added five more blockchain vacancies to the existing 20, reports CoinDesk. Fresh open positions include: product manager, business process manager, software engineer and analyst expert. For all new vacancies, the same location is indicated – Menlo Park, a city in San Mateo County, California, where the company's headquarters are located. As before, descriptions […]
The Russian retail network Dixy, in conjunction with the OSA HP Hybrid Platform, launches the BigData platform, controlled by artificial intelligence using blockchain technology. This was reported to ForkLog by representatives of the retailer. With in-depth training and computer vision, the company plans to conduct data analysis that will ensure the availability of goods in real time, increase customer loyalty and increase sales figures. “Optimization […]
Mining remains one of the main "ingredients" of cryptocurrency activity. The mining factor cryptocurrency supports the positive dynamics of digital assets. According to Bitcoin.com, those digital assets that can be mined account for about 70% of the capitalization of the entire market, represented in CoinMarketCap 2125 types of cryptocurrency , altcoins and tokens . However, in the top 10, only four can cryptocurrency, and the rest of the others are currently not provided. Those cryptocurrencies that can be obtained ( Bitcoin , Ethereum , Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin ) account for $ 91.7 billion in capitalization, and $ 24 billion…
According to some experts, Ethereum is gradually losing market share, yielding in many ways to other promising altcoins. It is reported by Bloomberg. Multicoin Capital Managing Partner Kyle Samani is confident that Ethereum is rapidly losing its primacy among decentralized application platforms. According to him, over the last six to nine months, other projects have appeared, offering similar solutions. The consequence of this process may be long-term […]
