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Graphics card suppliers will lower their prices in July, sources say, as the crypto market correction has led to less mining demand.
Analysis
With the growing complexity of the network and competition on the market, smaller miners give way to mining farms, specialised in industrial mining.
Bitmain is looking to artificial intelligence as the natural option to turn to in case of an increase in China’s already stringent crypto regulations.
Subsequent to Monero hard fork Ethereum may abandon PoW to send ASIC miners to the penalty bench.
Graphics cards have given ordinary people the ability to mine cryptocurrencies but the emergence of ASIC miners has thrown a spanner in the works.
Online mining hardware retailer MyRig recently revealed that Samsung produces the ASIC chips for new miners from Halong Mining.
Monero has successfully completed a hard fork designed to protect the network from certain ASIC miners.
Chinese hardware giant Bitmain has released Ethash ASIC miners for sale, the first units are set to ship in mid-July.
Top Ethereum devs cause online stir with talk of a hard fork in protocol to combat mining centralization.
ASIC cards threaten the network security, cryptocurrency developers concerned.
Bitmain’s reported new ETH mining ASIC has led a Wall Street analyst to lower AMD’s share rating, as well as Nvidia’s share price targets.
Privacy-centric and ASIC-resistant Monero has released a PoW update scheduled for April to counter the new Bitmain Antminer.
In depth
Cryptojacking, the takeover of another’s computing power to mine for crypto, has been spotted in a variety of both malicious and beneficial cases in the news.
A recently released academic report from Concordia University looks into the ethics behind browser-based cryptocurrency mining, focusing on the case of Coinhive...
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Chinese mining hardware manufacturer Bitmain made 2017 profits comparable to American GPU manufacturer Nvidia, reports.