Mining

In a recent report on stablecoins, the European Central Bank (ECB) questioned the accuracy of their name arguing that it may be misleading to users. The paper also highlighted that stablecoins could have a significant role in a digital economy if adequately regulated.The Name Stablecoins May Not Be A Proper Fit: ECBWhether they are backed by a fiat currency like the US dollar or commodities such as gold, stablecoins were created to provide a “stable” alternative to the highly volatile...

The sustained growth of the BTC blockchain in the last four years may be attributed to the introduction of scaling solution SegWit, which effectively doubled block sizes to two megabytes. The size of the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain has just hit a new milestone with respect to its size. The premier digital currency blockchain size has hit and exceeded the 300,000 MB (300GB) threshold as of September 19th according to Blockchain.com.The 300GB BTC blockchain size represents the size of the total...

The latest news coming out of Iran points to growing support for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency miners in the country.Miners will now have access to the electricity output from three power plants to mint digital assets, courtesy of Iran’s Thermal Power Plant Holding Company (TPPH).Tender For Bitcoin, Crypto Miners To Leverage Output of 3 Power PlantsAccording to today’s report from an Iranian local daily, the country’s Thermal Power Plant Holding Company (TPPH) will hold a tender to offer the...

A former employee of CSIRO – the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, has avoided prison after being caught using a supercomputer at work for mining cryptocurrencies. Jonathan Khoo, 34, worked as a contractor at the federal government’s scientific research agency.Generating $6,897 Worth Of Ethereum and MoneroAs per a recent news report, between January and February 2018, Khoo has managed to use two supercomputers at his workplace for the purpose of mining...

ONTOSWAP will be launched in three steps. Version 1.0 will be launched at the very beginning of next month together with liquidity mining after the start of token sales. Versions 2.0 and 3.0 will go live later.At the time of the rapid changes in the fintech sector, more and more new DeFi (decentralized finance) projects have been emerging lately. But with their novelty, most of the projects still have weaknesses like slow speed, low usability and high cost, centralization, lack of cross-chain...

Here’s an interesting notion. On paper, bitcoin and crypto miners have appeared to be suffering as of late. The industry has fallen into a pit of blackness following the spread of the coronavirus pandemic as it is not considered a “necessary” field the same way restaurants and grocery chains are.Bitcoin Miners Earned a Lot of Money Last MonthAnd yet in August, according to a new report, bitcoin and cryptocurrency miners have allegedly made well over $300 million. Despite the pandemic, despite...

Following the destruction of the Australian indigenous site against the landowners wishes, Rio Tinto investors seek candidates to replace CEO Jacques.Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) CEO Jean-Sebastien Jacques has resigned following investors’ revolt over the destruction of a 46,000-year-old indigenous site in Australia. The company said that Jacques will depart at the end of March 2021 or once a successor is chosen.In May, the world’s largest metals and mining corporation, Rio Tinto, destroyed the...

The Digital Currency Group (DCG) just got a whole lot bigger and is now a global enterprise with its latest purchase of Luno, a digital currency exchange based in the UK.Luno Is Now a Part of the Growing Digital Currency GroupDCG is already a major firm considering it owns the institutional crypto trading platform Grayscale. Just a few months ago, the company posted more than $1 billion in trades for its second quarter, meaning that customers had to be trading more than $300 million each...

Two years after the infamous Bitcoin Cash hard fork of 2018, the news about the new one scheduled for November 15, 2020, is spreading, and this time, nobody seems happy about the new possible drama.The Bitcoin Cash community is at the beginning of a new era – Bitcoin Cash hard fork may happen on November 15, 2020, splitting the network into two blockchains. The hard fork is a result of longstanding debates over development funding.Three main implementations are working in BCH right now:...

Being able to mine cryptocurrency and earn a passive income without having to buy thousands of dollars’ worth of hardware almost sounds too good to be true. However, it is a real practice that countless crypto users have turned to in order to profit in a much safer way than trading digital coins.This is, of course, possible through the process of staking.Staking allows you to lock a number of coins that you own in a crypto wallet, and then use them to help run the coin’s network. In doing so,...