The leading manufacturer of mining equipment Bitmain announced the start of sales of new ASIC-devices Antminer for mining Bitcoin – S15 and T15, equipped with 7-nm chips. According to the information on the company's website, the cost of the devices presented in two versions is $ 1,475 for the Antminer S15 and $ 913 for the Antminer T15 . The tentative start of deliveries is between December 20 and 31, 2018. Antimer S15 provides a new level of energy efficiency through the use of a 7-chip, combining more than 1 billion transistors per unit. This feature greatly improves the computational…
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Before the hardfork in the Bitcoin Cash network, the mining company Bitmain plans to use 90,000 Antminer S9 devices in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to the Chinese publication Deep Chain . A local mining pool operator Yu Hao told Deep Chain that since the end of October, company representatives had held talks with virtually all owners of mining farms, inviting them to install the appropriate equipment. “AntPool [Bitmain-owned pool] asked each farm to host about 5,000 devices. However, only a few farms agreed to do this. ” The Chinese publication noted that coal-rich areas such as Xinjiang and…
Cryptocurrencies based on the blockchain are subject to the so-called attack threat of 51%: when more than half of the computing power of a cryptocurrency network is controlled by some organization or group of individuals, it becomes possible to conduct conflicting transactions or malicious harm. We will tell you how it works. When a bitcoin owner signs a transaction, she enters the local pool of unconfirmed transactions. Miners select transactions from this pool and form blocks from them. To add a block to the blockchain, they need to solve a very difficult math problem. Each miner first tries to guess…
Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency company in the United States, announced that the Basic Attention Token (BAT) token is now available for purchase and sale on the Coinbase.com platform. BAT is now live at https://t.co/bCG11KveHS and Android apps. Coinbase customers can buy in, buy, send, receive, or store BAT. https://t.co/YgLcxAaMiT – Coinbase (@coinbase) 8 leaf fall 2018 p. Exchange users will now be able to buy, sell, hold on the account or exchange BAT through the official website and applications for Android and iOS. A week earlier, on November 3, the professional trading platform Coinbase Pro announced support for the token.…
Of course, new items are interesting to all! This point is of particular importance when the newly-made product is not only stylish, but also useful. Fortunately, this is the way to characterize the thing that will be discussed in this post! Literally the other day, the release of a fresh template dedicated to finance and cryptocurrency – Bitunet. This theme was built on the WordPress platform, but fans of other CMS will also be able to work with Bitunet . For example, the specified template can be found among MotoCMS products. So what is the beauty of Bitunet? Who might…
Leading Bitcoin Exchange Binance announced the creation of a new division of Binance Research, which will be engaged in the preparation of corporate analytical reports in the field of cryptocurrencies. Binance Launches New Analysis Division: Binance Research https://t.co/MH9DflMdPu pic.twitter.com/oebO80KhOZ – Binance (@binance) 8 November 2018 “Binance Research is a new pillar of the Binance ecosystem. Focused on the creation of corporate analytical reports, Binance Research sees its goal in increasing transparency and improving the quality of information available in cryptoprostancy, ”the company said. Currently, two reports are already available – the first one is dedicated to the Loom Network, the…
The Bitcoin wallet of the same name, designed by start-up Bitsy, will be opened on November 12 for public beta testing, according to a report from Medici Ventures, a venture division of online retailer Overstock. "The new platform based on the Bitsy application creates an incredibly simple, secure, and user-friendly bridge between Bitcoin and the US dollar," the press release said. The application for the safe purchase, transfer and storage of bitcoins will be available for devices on Android and iOS. The company notes that Bitsy users are given full control over their assets and the possibility of direct transfer…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against the founder of the platform for trading cryptocurrency tokens EtherDelta Zachary Cobern in the operational management of the unregistered securities exchange. The regulator’s statement says that the decentralized EtherDelta Exchange served as a secondary market for trading ERC-20 standard tokens, which the SEC regards as “digital securities”. SEC Charges EtherDelta Founder With An Unregistered Exchange Exchange https://t.co/KYRBmn2UHw – SEC_News (@SEC_News) 8 November 2018 In particular, the platform gave buyers and sellers the opportunity to make deals using the bid book, the site for displaying bids and a smart contract…
The director and the head teacher of the Chinese school from Hunan Province – Lei Hua and Won Tsipen – installed nine mining devices for Ethereum worth $ 7,000 right in the building of the educational institution. Because of this, for several months the school suffered losses in the amount of $ 2,163 , reports CoinDesk with reference to the local edition HK01. Initially, Lei Hua installed the devices at home, but due to high electricity costs, he decided to move the mining farm to a school, where he carried out the theft of electricity. Because of the secret mining…
This week, SatoshiLabs, the creator of the Trezor Wallet wallet, added support for several major altcoins in its hardware Trezor Model T wallet. According to the developers, the model T firmware now supports Monero (XMR), Cardano (ADA), Stellar (XLM), XRP, Tezos, Decred (DCR), Groestlcoin, Lisk, Zencash (ZEN) and Zcash Sapling. It should be noted that since recent times Trezor wallets support the Changelly and ShapeShift protocols for instant cryptocurrency exchange. And what do you think about this? Leave your comments below!