Mining

Crowd Strike Holdings Inc. – a security research firm – has released a new report detailing what has been labeled the first crypto jacking campaign targeting the Kubernetes infrastructure. Crypto Jacking… Yup! It’s Still Around! Crypto jacking is (at this stage) an old method of illegally mining cryptocurrency. What one does is they place malware onto a specific site or application that a victim comes across. In visiting the website or in opening the app, the malware is...

Gaming fintech firm Zebedee – through its partnership with mobile gaming enterprise Fumb Games – has developed a game called Bitcoin Miner, a mobile application that simulates a crypto mining facility. This would be fun all in itself, but there’s even better news today in that the game has allegedly been played by more than one million people. Zebedee Hits a Milestone with Bitcoin Miner This is proof that everyone has caught, in one way or another, the crypto mining bug,...

Many former customers of Silicon Valley Bank have come close to falling victim to crypto scams. The cyberthieves seek to garner the victims’ bank account information, which includes their computer data. From there, they target their systems with malware as a means of mining crypto from their computers or stealing whatever digital assets they’ve put away. Silicon Valley Bank Customers Should Watch Out Silicon Valley Bank was one of three banks to be shut down in the past...

The US-based cryptocurrency miner – CleanSpark – purchased 45,000 units of the Antminer S19 XP BTC mining machines for $144.9 million.  The current computing power of CleanSpark is 6.7 EH/s, while the installation of the new equipment is expected to push it to 13 EH/s.  Preparing for the Halving According to the deal, the manufacturer will distribute 25,000 units in August, while the remaining 20,000 should arrive in September. CleanSpark plans to deploy all of them at its...

The Singaporean cryptocurrency miner – Bitdeer – expects to go public on April 14 after finalizing the SPAC merger with Blue Safari Group Acquisition Corp. The former displayed its intentions to enter Nasdaq in November 2021. However, shareholders of Blue Safari delayed the initiative three times in the past several months due to the harsh environment caused by the bear market. The ‘Significant Milestone’ As announced by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),...

A bitcoin miner is getting a huge reward at the time of writing after beating out his fellow miners to add bitcoin block 780,112 to the blockchain. A Bitcoin Miner Is Getting a Huge Reward At press time, the person in question is receiving a total of $148,000 in BTC. This consists of a 6.25 BTC reward along with an additional fee payment of 0.63 in bitcoin for the work he’s completed. The miner beat the odds in many ways given how many others were working to resolve the...

Leading digital asset Bitcoin hit $30K for the first time in almost a year amid prevalent gains in crypto stocks. Crypto stocks are rising, with players Marathon Digital Holdings (NASDAQ: MARA) and Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) leading gains. The duo is trading up at 11% and 15%, respectively, with prominent coin Bitcoin (BTC) also changing hands at $30K. As it stands, BTC price is up by more than 80% so far this year. Besides MARA and RIOT, other smaller crypto stocks also experienced...

The Chinese tax authority claim Bitmain was issued with a tax violations notice in August last year but has withheld paying individual tax income of about $2.4 million. Bitmain Technologies Ltd., a Beijing-based company that is well known for designing application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips used in Bitcoin mining, has reportedly been fined approximately 25 million Chinese yuan, equal to about $3.7 million, for allegedly failing to pay personal income taxes in China....

The state of Missouri is in line to become one of the most crypto-friendly in the Union given it’s just passed a string of regulatory acts designed to protect the rights of bitcoin and crypto miners. Missouri Seeks to Keep Crypto Miners Protected Missouri legislators recently voted to amend what’s known as House Bill 764. Introduced last January, the bill defines the language and descriptions surrounding cryptocurrency miners. It also says that no crypto miner can be...

The Digital Currency Group will revamp its way of mining Bitcoin amid larger funding problems due mostly in part to another subsidiary of theirs, Genesis, going bankrupt as a result of their dealings with FTX. Freeing Up Revenue Although Genesis reached an agreement with its creditors – the crypto trading platform’s parent company, DCG, being one of them – the former is marked for sell-off as soon as a buyer appears. The arrangement DCG and its subsidiary have entered was a...