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To say bitcoin is volatile would be an understatement. It seems to either be surging or crashing with little signs of overall stability. This is the reason that Valve recently stopped accepting bitcoin as a method of payment. Last week was a rough one for those into bitcoin, as the cryptocurrency took a beating with...
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With the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies booming, everyone is looking to make some money off the craze. One of the biggest players that is looking to get into the cryptocurrency craze is Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Word is that the company is looking to set up a trading desk fordigital currency like...
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Sometimes it feels like this whole cryptocurrency mining business is getting out of hand. The underlying technologyblockchainis interesting and potentially very useful, but there are some side effects that are casting a dark shadow over cryptocurrency, such as driving up the price (and limiting availability) of...
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We know that NVIDIA's TITAN V is a massively powerful videocard, one that we are a thousand percent confident can run Crysis, so no need to ask. But will it blend? Probably. That just leaves one question to answerhow well does it mine cryptocurrency? Pretty darn good, as it turns out. As in, almost double the mining...
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If we had a time machine, we go back to the early days of Bitcoin and invest heavily. On this day seven years ago, Bitcoin was worth around $0.24. That means a $100 investment would have gotten you around 417 Bitcoins worth nearly $7.1 million today. The numbers turn really obscene when you crunch the numbers for when...
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When it comes to today's cryptocurrencies, it sometimes seems although we're operating in the Wild Wild West. Such is the case today with NiceHash, which is a cryptocurrency mining marketplace. Apparently, NiceHash's payment system was compromised and unfortunately, its Bitcoin wallet was raided.
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All eyes are on Bitcoin these days, mainly because of its meteoric rise in valuation. Just a day ago, with Bitcoin's price easily surpassing the $10,000 threshold and hopefully bullying its way into mainstream acceptance, there were reports that Nasdaq, Inc. would launch Bitcoin futures during the first half of next...
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Christmas is coming early for long-term investors in Bitcoin. The red-hot cryptocurrency has skyrocketed during 2017, most recently crossing the $9,000 threshold on Sunday. At the time, we opined that Bitcoin could be well on its way toward hitting $10,000 by the end of the year.
Well, we barely made it 48 hours and...
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If you recently jumped on the Ethereum bandwagon, you might want to sit down for this news. A security vulnerability has been discovered in the Parity wallet service deployed by Parity Technologies.
According to a security alert issued by Parity Technologies today, the vulnerability was found within the standard...
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It was just a few weeks ago when we were last talking about the massive gains that Bitcoin has made during 2017. Today, Bitcoin is still shooting skyward, sitting pretty at a record $7,555, despite China's apprehension towards the cryptocurrency gold standard.
The $7,555 figure is nearly $1,500 higher than our...
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There is strength in numbers, and that is part of what is driving an increase in cryptocurrency mining malware. The idea is to infect as many mobile devices as possible, and tap into the combined computing power to crunch numbers for profit. Unfortunately, this seems to be a trend (on both mobile and PC)security...
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Russia may soon roll out its own state-controlled cryptocurrency called CryptoRuble. Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum, LiteCoin, and other types of cryptocurrency that are all the rage these days, Russia's digital coins cannot be mined. CryptoRubles will be issued and tracked by the government like regular currency, and users...
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What is a blockchain? When considering cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum, it's best to first understand the underlying technology and framework that makes their existence possible. At its core, a blockchain is a what is described as a "shared ledger" technology that is used to record the complete history of transactions that have been
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Bitcoin is living up to its billing as a volatile currency. It was a big deal last month when Bitcoin first flirted with a $2,900 valuation. Just a couple of weeks later, it jumped past the $4,000 mark, setting yet another new high in the process. More recently, Bitcoin has hit a rough patch, causing its value to fall...
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Just a day after JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon unleashed a fury of attacks on Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies in general), another salvo is incoming. It was reported last week by Caixin that China was contemplating shutting down cryptocurrency exchange trading, and further confirmation of that order arrived...
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There has been a run on cryptocurrencies in the past year or so, especially when it comes to Bitcoin and Ethereum. The latter has especially been popular, with enthusiasts quickly gobbling up high-performance NVIDIA and AMD GPUs to bolster their mining efforts.
While many enthusiasts and even some...
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Graphics tracking firm Jon Peddie Research described the discrete graphics market as "outstanding" in the second quarter of 2017, with a nearly 31 percent sequential increase in add-in card shipments, and just a touch shy of a 35 percent bump year-over-year. As always, gaming gave the discrete graphics card market a...
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ASUS is releasing a motherboard with 19 PCI-Express expansion slots, and no, it is not intended for gamers who want to play Crysis (or any other title). This one is aimed directly at digital coin miners as the cryptocurrency craze rages one. Like the California gold rush that lasted from 1848 to 1855, this...
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There is a cryptocurrency war brewing in Bitcoin land. On Tuesday, Bitcoin forked, leaving us with the original Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH). During its first week of trading, Bitcoin Cash has been on a wild rollercoaster ride when it comes its valuation.
On Wednesday, just one day after its trading debut...
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It is a tough time to be a gamer in need of a graphics card upgrade. There are some excellent options for gaming on the PC, but with the cryptocurrency gold rush that has taken place over the past several months, it can be difficult to (A) find certain graphics in stock and (B) not pay an inflated price for one...
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The hackers behind the WannaCry ransomware that became an overnight global scare did not strike it rich over their nefarious deeds, though they did make around $143,000 after cashing out all of the Bitcoin payments made by victims. Had it not been for the quick response of security researchers, and one in particular...
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With the boom of cryptocurrencies, many geeks have flocked to the virtual mining of Bitcoin and Ethereum. The boom in Ethereum mining recently was so massive that it was hard for gamers to find AMD Radeon graphics cards for gaming PCs because so many Ethereum speculators had gobbled up all the cards on the...
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