The last few years between the blockchain developers and manufacturers of ASIC miners is a technological race. Developers seek to limit the profitability of ASIC in their systems, manufacturers – to make more efficient devices. In the new special project from ForkLog and æternity “Struggle with ASIC: the present and the future of mining cryptocurrency” we told what was behind this struggle and what it would lead the blockchain industry. To compose […]
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update The experts at the Ethereum Foundation discussed the nuances of the Istanbul update. The conference was held by telephone.…
The most popular of privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies – Monero (XMR) had a successful hard fork. The network protocol update was initiated…
Samscon Mou, Chief Strategic Director of Blockstream, one of the most avid public critics of the mining giant Bitmain, said that several lawsuits have already been filed against the Beijing company. At the same time, Bitmain allegedly has huge debts to suppliers and production contractors. 1 / Bitmain already facing multiple lawsuits and more being filed. Their assembly, […]
Following the successful updates of the networks Ethereum and Tron, which occurred only a few days ago, another popular cryptocurrency…
Chinese mining farms, which have suspended work last year due to the collapse of the cryptographic market, are restarting the…
A few weeks ago, Bitcoin Core developer James Hilliard discovered a vulnerability in the ASIC miner firmware Antminer S15 ,…
A FPGA (user-programmable gate array) is a cryptocurrency mining equipment that is very similar to an ASIC except for one…
Bitmain Technologies has announced the release of new 7-nm chips “with revolutionary energy efficiency” for mining cryptocurrencies based on the…
Bitmain, the largest manufacturer of mining equipment, introduced a 7-nanometer ASIC chip called BM1397, focused on the SHA256 algorithm [primarily Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash]. We’re proud of our 7nm ASIC to mine cryptocurrencies using the SHA256 PoW, thus far our most efficient ASIC. Learn more: https://t.co/cW3Sh2IgNL Follow @Antminer_main and stay tuned for # AntminerS17 […]