Mining

WisElement, startup française développant des solutions innovantes qui permettent de diminuer la consommation énergétique des bâtiments, lance sa marque WiseMining, pour sa future gamme de produits et services spécialisés dans le minage de Bitcoin en secteur résidentiel. Sato, premier produit de la marque, est une chaudière d’appoint qui utilise la chaleur produite par des Asics Bitcoin pour produire de l’eau chaude. Sato s’adresse à...

Coinbase will take a 25% commission on all the rewards received by their customers.According to a press release by Coinbase, the crypto exchange firm has announced that its waitlist for staking Ethereum 2.0 has now been launched. This means that users of the platform can now sign up to stake their ETH tokens into the Beacon Chain smart contract. Beacon chain is widely regarded as the bridge between Ethereum and its 2.0 version that would see the second-largest crypto asset by market cap...

Iron-ore accounted for 90% of Rio Tinto’s earnings, underlying its pedigree as it operates one of the world’s biggest iron-ore export hubs.Rio Tinto Plc (NYSE: RIO) has announced a special dividend for its investors after the company sees a 22% rise in annual profit. Rio Tinto which is the world’s biggest producer of iron and ore and the world’s second-largest mining company by value announced a net profit of $9.77 billion for 2020 on February 17, up from the $9.1 billion it recorded in...

Bitcoin and most alternative coins are not the only crypto-related gainers during the ongoing bull cycle. The price developments have pushed numerous industry companies to see stock increases, including Chinese mining firm SOS Limited, which also received an endorsement from Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary.SOS Limited Recent DevelopmentsWith a membership base of about 20 million in China, SOS is an “emerging blockchain-based and big data-driven marketing and solution provider,” which recently...

We are happy and proud to announce that we are partnering with Crypto.com to bring liquidity mining campaigns to their platform by integrating the NIOX Maker, and more importantly, NIOX Swarm. Together these tools will enable intelligent crowdsourced liquidity.Liquidity is one of the most essential pre-requisites for all financial assets and trading platforms. However, most market participants are unclear as to what drives liquidity and how to measure its effects. This is mainly because...

Lost or forgotten passwords to bitcoin and cryptocurrency accounts typically lead to money that cannot be accessed, and according to German prosecutors, this appears to have hindered a recent case of criminal fraud involving bitcoin mining.Lost Passwords Remain a Serious IssueAt the time of writing, law enforcement agents in Germany are holding a man – who currently remains anonymous – that has stored as many as 1,700 bitcoin units in a specific account. The big clincher is that the man...

As the value of MX continues to increase, MX holders, like Tesla stock holders, have received “stock” appreciation gains.Holding MX is the same as holding stocks. Holders can enjoy a series of rights such as asset appreciation and voting to get a token listed. Specifically, MX holders can enjoy a 20% commission deduction when trading spots; voting and renewal of crypto assets can receive transaction fee rewards; participating in the lottery of SpaceM and M-Day activities qualification or...

As the price of bitcoin continues to surge this week, new arguments are emerging regarding the incredible amounts of energy bitcoin mining requires.Bitcoin Mining Needs More Energy Than EverIn the past, we have all read reports of bitcoin mining needing as much energy as what’s necessary to power Sin City (aka Las Vegas, Nevada). In addition, we have also heard that countries such as Iceland now use more energy for bitcoin mining that they do to power all their residences, but how much of all...

The hashrate on Bitcoin’s network surged to yet another all-time high, this time above 155 million TH/s. Simultaneously, the blockchain went through another adjustment that increased the difficulty levels to a record of their own.Bitcoin Hash Rate To Fresh HighsThe hash rate is a measuring unit of the processing power of the BTC network. The more miners put their computational devices to work, the higher the hash rate goes, which makes the system more secure and robust.Since over 60% of...

Bitcoin-Miner konnten im Januar 2020 einen Rekordumsatz verzeichne. Rund 1,12 Milliarden US-Dollar wurden in den vergangenen 31 Tagen erwirtschaftet. Das übersteigt sogar noch die Zahlen aus dem Rekordmonat Dezember 2017, als am Ende 1,25 Milliarden US-Dollar auf der Habenseite standen. Im Januar 2018 verzeichneten Bitcoin-Miner einen Umsatz von 1,02 Milliarden US-Dollar. Während diese Zahlen im letzten Monat knapp erreicht wurden, gab es im Bereich der Block-Subventionen...