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Home-based crypto mining is booming in Brazil

Brazilians have found an alternative source of income in crypto mining amidst the rising unemployment in the country due to the coronavirus pandemic. Mining rigs were even spotted in homes located in favelas as home mining...

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Announcement of Bitcoin (BTC) Mining Council worries some crypto proponents

The announcement of the creation of a new Bitcoin Mining Council that will promote the use of renewable energy seemed to have calmed the crypto market with BTCs price trading between $37,000 and $39,000 lately. However,...

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Nvidia limits Ether (ETH) mining hash rate on the new batch of GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 Ti GPUs

Chipmaker Nvidia is making sure that its new models of graphics cards, which are geared for gaming, go into their intended users. The company is putting an Ethereum hash rate limiter on the hardware to make them less...

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Personal data leak affecting 10K Vietnamese might be linked to a mobile crypto mining app

Crypto mining app for mobile users Pi Network is now reportedly linked to a massive data leak. The leak involved the personal data of thousands of users of the popular app. The leaked personal data came from the Know...

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Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) can now be traded in Venmo

When PayPal launched its crypto trading feature last year, the payments giant also announced that the same feature will be arriving on its Venmo app. That day has finally arrived as Venmo users can now start trading in...

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Bitcoin (BTC) mining in North America is on the rise but challenging China’s dominance could take time

For years now, Chinas status as the worlds crypto mining leader remained unchallenged. But that could change as North American firms have started to beef up their mining capacity that could challenge the dominance of their...

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Ethereum Hashrate Breaks 9.5 T/s

Citing data from Bitinfocharts, the average hashrate of Ethereum has reached 9.541 T/s over the past 24 hours, creating a record high since 2020. The mining difficulty also goes up to 131.244...

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Bitcoin (BTC) mining concentrated in areas with excess unused energy, says Coin Metric co-founder

With the soaring prices of cryptos such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), cryptocurrency mining has become a very profitable enterprise. This prompted some to raise their concerns over Bitcoin mining claiming that the...

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Ethereum Devs Proposed EIP-3455

Ethereum developers William Morriss and Baptiste Vauthey have submitted a proposal EIP-3455 to introduce new operation code, in a bid to allow any sender address to recall issued tokens. At present, the Ethereum network...

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Gavin Wood: Kusama Parachain May Be Launched Soon

According to PolkaWorld, Gavin Wood, founder of Polkadot, shared the latest development of Polkadot, revealing that Kusama parachain may be launched in the next few...

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