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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...

Wed, 14 Apr 2021, 12:07 pm UTC

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...

Fri, 09 Apr 2021, 06:32 am UTC

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...

Thu, 01 Apr 2021, 13:49 pm UTC

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...

Thu, 01 Apr 2021, 09:54 am UTC

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...

Thu, 01 Apr 2021, 07:03 am UTC

Polkadot-based Darwinia has successfully secured a slot on Rococo parachain.

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Wed, 31 Mar 2021, 10:58 am UTC

First Carbon-Neutral NFT Scaling Platform Launched By Immutable X

The Immutable X platform aims to tackle the increasing energy cost and carbon footprint of producing non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the Ethereum network. NFTs on Ethereum use gas to mint them on its proof-of-work...

Wed, 31 Mar 2021, 09:12 am UTC

Crypto ransomware is a threat the average American is concerned about, says cybersecurity expert

Crypto adoption has risen in recent months as more companies started to accept digital currencies as a payment option and the rise in prices of popular cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) has attracted...

Sun, 28 Mar 2021, 08:52 am UTC

AMD won’t restrict the crypto mining capabilities of its GPUs

With the rally pushing the prices of popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) higher, crypto mining is becoming more profitable. Demand for graphics processing units (GPU) is expected to rise with the...

Tue, 23 Mar 2021, 12:40 pm UTC

Ethereum Devs Put Forward Proposal To prioritize The Merge After London #278

With the recent Vitalik Buterins quick merge proposal, there is a possibility to deliver the merge sooner. The main advantage of the proposal is that it introduces fewer required changes to make the consensus upgrade on...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021, 09:18 am UTC