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Chinese mining equipment manufacturer Canaan Creative has unveiled a new ASIC miner for Ethereum. This is reported by Cryptoslate. According to the documentation, the new Canaan device runs on the Ethash algorithm and surpasses other equipment in terms of W / MHs (watts per megahash per second) by 5-7 times. Canaan is not a miner developer, but sells it in China. “It's a little hard to explain, […]

On Tuesday, September 24, the price of bitcoin at high volumes fell from $ 9400 to $ 8070. At the same time, quotes fell by $ 1,400 in less than two hours – from 18:00 to 20:00 UTC. Losses of some altcoins at this moment reached 30-50%. For the first time since mid-June, Bitcoin dropped below $ 9,000 and is currently trading at around $ 8,500 at the time of writing. […]

Chinese mining giant Bitmain will present a detailed report analyzing data on global mining farms at the World Digital Mining Summit in October. This is stated in the press release of the company. In the document, Bitmain will offer a comprehensive analysis of the mining industry, including data on existing mining farms, their energy costs, features of choosing a place to create a farm and construction costs. Report […]

Argo Blockchain, a British mining company, has installed 1,000 new ASIC miners. Now the company has 6,000 devices. According to the Proactiveinvestors portal, over the next two quarters, the company will acquire another 6,000 bitcoin miners. Argo Blockchain shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Against the backdrop of a bullish rally of Bitcoin this year, they grew by 193% – from £ 3.2 in early April […]

The total processing power of the Bitcoin network has crossed the line of 100 EH / s. At the time of writing, the indicator is 102.848 EH / s. Since December 2018, the hash rate has increased by 230%. Since mid-June, several new ASIC miners have appeared on the market and, according to some estimates, 600 thousand new devices have connected to the bitcoin network. Over three months, more than 600 […]

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the local Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have uncovered a large criminal organization involved in identity fraud and money laundering through cryptocurrencies. This was reported on the ASIC website. According to authorities, fraudsters bought personal data of people on the Internet, and then used them to steal money from retirement […]

At the Kiev Borispol airport, customs officers and employees of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine seized a batch of equipment for the extraction of cryptocurrencies, according to the agency’s website. A Chinese citizen tried to move 160 kg of goods outside the border control. Among them were system units that can be used for mining, motherboards and spare parts for mobile phones, power supplies, wireless headphones and bioadditives. Border guards seized the entire […]