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A former Bitcoin miner hobbyist has stumbled on an old wallet containing 1,000 Bitcoins, in addition to many Bitcoin forks.On March 10, a thread was posted to Bitcointalk by a self-described “newbie” making their first return to crypto after a “long hiatus,” seeking advice on accessing an old Bitcoin
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Recently, in search of easy and big profits, to the crypto market have come many new investors who thoughtlessly invested money and manipulated the price of cryptocurrencies, as a result of which this Big Bubble burst. The great and terrible “Crypto-disaster of 2018” happened during which many coins either lost
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Bitcoin mining startup Layer1 Technologies has begun operations at its West Texas facility, with an ambitious roadmap to secure 30% of the hash rate.Layer1, which raised $50 million in November from Thiel, Shasta Ventures and Digital Currency Group, said it has now brought multiple 2.5-megawatt liquid-cooled mining containers online.Its
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The Texas Bitcoin mining facility by Layer1 has gone live for the first time today. The all-in-house US Bitcoin mining initiative is seeking to address Chinese dominance of the cryptocurrency’s mining activity.Layer1 is hoping to expand rapidly from this initial launch. By the end of 2021, it plans to command
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Bitcoin.com Executive Chairman, prominent Bitcoin Cash (BCH) evangelist and self-acclaimed foremost investor of Bitcoin startups, Roger Ver, has come out to state that neither Ver nor Bitcoin.com endorsed the controversial Bitcoin Cash Miner Tax. Roger Ver Removes Himself From Miner Tax Proposal Roger Ver, via a YouTube video on February 16, 2020,
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Two leading manufacturers of crypto mining hardware notified customers their shipments would be delayed at least a week because of the coronavirus quarantine in China.This week MicroBT, Bitmain and Canaan notified customers the application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) they ordered would not be immediately sent, as the Chinese government extended New
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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponent and former Bitcoin (BTC) evangelist, Roger Ver has withdrawn support for a proposed Bitcoin Cash miner tax following backlash from several BCH miners and investors. Bitcoin Cash Miner Tax Won’t Work Without Consensus In a blog post published by Bitcoin.com on Tuesday (January 28, 2019), Ver declared that
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AT&T's Alien Labs is dipping its toes into cryptomining malware analysis with a new technological breakdown of how a monero miner infiltrates networks. Released Thursday, the report by security researcher Fernando Domínguez provides a step-by-step walkthrough of how one rather low-profile cryptojacker infects and spreads across vulnerable Exim, Confluence and WebLogic
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The bitcoin price has fallen by 50 percent since July from $13,900 to sub-$6,900. The steep drop caused mining to be less profitable, causing small miners to sell-off.Bad idea to long dropping bitcoin hashrateDuring miner capitulation, small miners and mining centers tend to sell-off their holdings to cope with declining
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Yongjiang, which supplies electronic device components, asked the court on Sept. 25 to freeze 4.7 million yuan (around $676,000), in assets owned by the mining subsidiary to ensure it would be able to claim such an amount should the court rule in its favor in an ongoing trade contract dispute. Source
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