On April 3, 2017, Bitmain sent an email out to all past clients with the subject of “Order the Antminer E3, an Ethash ASIC miner” Specs for the ethereum miner are listed as 180 MH/s with a power usage of 800 watts. The first batch is available to order right now, and all orders will […]
News
There’s still confusion among the general public about how or why cryptocurrencies are necessary. Check this out for an example: a $10 billion transaction was sent using XRP (Ripple), for a total transaction cost of 0.000012 XRP (merely pennies). Compare that to any percentage that a bank, or Western Union, etc, would charge, and you […]
Mere months ago, back in October 2017, JPMorgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon said that digital currency was “stupid” and a “great product” for criminals. He even went as far as saying, “If you’re stupid enough to buy it, you’ll pay the price for it one day.” Dimon had also said that it was a market bubble […]
In the spirit of the Lunar New Year 2018, Bitmain (one of the largest producers of Bitcoin ASIC mining machines – and recently others, like Litecoin, Dash, etc) has given out coupons to past customers. The Lunar New Year Coupons were given to all customers who had paid for an order as of February 27, […]
As some parts of the world seem to crack down on cryptocurrencies (and cause fear, uncertainty and doubt to spread rampant throughout investors), other countries are embracing the technology with open arms. Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has ordered various government services to accept it’s own oil-backed crypto coin the Petro, as well as any other […]
Earlier this month, Mastercard and Visa made news by stating that any cryptocurrency purchases made on their credit cards would be billed as cash advances instead of charges. The main difference is that a cash advance incurs interest and costs the moment you make it, where as a normal credit card charge is interest free […]
Well, it’s official. For the last week or two, I’ve had trouble buying from CoinBase with my Capital One card. I finally got around to calling them up, and they informed me that the orders were cancelled not because I had run into my credit limit on the card, but because they no longer allow […]
Now there’s another spate of selling happening, and investors with weak hands are selling, starting to send crypto markets down again. If you look back at 2017, coming from December 2016 into January 2017, the market had gone from about 14 billion market cap, to about 21 billion. During the build up, everyone was touting […]
There’s a rush on mining GPUs again! It seems like everywhere in the crypto-sphere (BitcoinTalk, other forums, facebook groups, twitter etc), people are complaining that they can’t find any GPUs in stock. The GPU comparison charts on this site were built to help you choose the best mining gpu, but they also work to tell […]