Venezuelan police officers reported that they had arrested
two men that had been carrying nine ASIC mining devices. Even though cryptocurrency
mining is legal in the South American country, some cases of police extortion
have occurred.
The new leader reached a processing a capacity
of 13,378 PH/s at a given time. With the introduction of new mining pools this
year, processing has become less centralized.
On September 16th, Bitmain's mining pool
BTC.com...
Spark Pool, Ethermine and F2Pool have
voted on limits of almost 9,000,000 GAS per block. The three pools have about
60% of Ethereum processing power.
About 50% of Ethereum miners are in favor of the...
The German firm Northern Bitcoin AG has concluded its tests in an
air-cooled Bitcoin mining container that operates 144 Bitcoin ASIC miners. The
company made the announcement on September 9th saying that the
tests, conducted in Frankfurt-Hoechst, were a success.
The network’s high hash rate and ZEC low
price affected Zcash mining profitability. The previous all-time low was 25%
above what it registered last week.
BitInfoCharts notes that the daily mining profitability
of ZEC, Zcash native...
The state energy company Energoatom has at its disposal four
nuclear plants in Ukraine
The
Security Service of Ukraine managed to confiscate special equipment for
cryptocurrency mining at the installations of a nuclear plant.
In Brazil, digital mining will be
considered by the state as a “productive process”, and cryptocurrencies will be seen
as assets called “well produced”
On Tuesday, August 26th, the Central Bank
of Brazil (BANCEN) issued a...
According to Coin Dance, Bitcoin's highest hash rate
was 96 EH/s at the end of July 2019. The hash rate increase would imply an
increase in the mining difficulty for its next adjustment.
Bitcoin's processing...
New versions of CoinHive malicious software with added functionalities
have emerged. Ransomware remains the most used malware by cybercriminals.
Ransomware
and mining malware have been the most commonly used methods by cybercriminals against organizations in...
The halving occurred at the height of block 1,680,000
of the Litecoin network. The Litecoin block reward was reduced from 25 to 12.5
LTC for each mined block.
It was reported that the second halving...
