ASIC News

Chinese mining and mining Application Specific Integrated Circuit manufacturer Bitmain lost $625 million in the first two months of this year.

The cryptocurrency Grin has followed through with stated plans to hardfork its mainnet on July 17, as part of an ongoing effort to prevent ASIC mining.

Cryptocurrency investment products and research firm CoinShares estimates that 74.1% of bitcoin mining is powered by renewable energy.

Privacy-centric cryptocurrency Grin is finalizing its timeline for its first-ever network hard fork.

Australia’s top financial regulatory watchdog issues updated guidelines for ICOs and cryptocurrency trading.

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission published new initial coin offering and cryptocurrency guidelines.

Privacy-centric cryptocurrency monero will reportedly switch to a new proof-of-work algorithm in October.

Ethereum core developer Hudson Jameson announced that an audit of the ASIC-resistant Proof of Work algorithm ProgPoW has been funded.

A Chinese publicly listed construction company turned to cryptocurrency mining firm has been reportedly sold after its value decreased by over 90%.

While Bitmain is releasing the second Antminer for mining ZEC, the Zcash team is not in a hurry to fork the network and join the ASIC resistance campaign.

Crypto mining seems popular among students, but does this “free” money thing really work?

A PwC blockchain expert states that renewable energy is insufficient in addressing Bitcoin’s massive energy consumption.

Despite the large number of opponents and rumors of collusion between Ethereum developers and GPU producers, the ProgPoW algorithm has been supported by 94 perc...

U.S. hardware manufacturer Nvidia reported full-year revenue gains in 2018.

Bitmain has announced its next generation 7nm ASIC chip, which reportedly enables faster and cheaper mining.