Find the Best GPU for Mining… and more
If you’re building a GPU mining rig, then the most important piece of it is the mining GPU! However, other than the wide range of brands, prices, and choices, in a way that’s the easy part of the build. The often-more-confusing part of a gpu mining rig is all of the other mining rig parts […]
Same old story – it’s getting boring! The SEC announced it is delaying its decision on 3 Bitcoin ETFs, and published the following dates. The VanEck ETF decision will be made on October 18, 2019, the Bitwise ETF listing on NYSE Arca will be decided on October 13, 2019, and the decision on Wilshire Phoenix’s […]
On February 20, the SEC filed a notice of consideration for the Chicago Board Options Exchange application for the SEC to list a Bitcoin ETF. The SEC now has 45 days, to a maximum of 90 days to make a decision about whether or not to allow the ETF to launch. “Within 45 days of […]
Ok, perhaps skyrocket is a little bit bold, but these products will definitely drive up the price of Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market as a whole. Make no mistake, even in the depths of the current crypto-winter (aka bear market), there have been more and more Bitcoin transactions taking place – which means more people […]
Nasdaq, the world’s second largest stock exchange, has confirmed its plans to launch Bitcoin futures in the first half of 2019. Nasdaq’s vice president of media team, Joseph Christinat, clarified that the launch does still depend on approval from the United States CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission). He went on to say that there’s been […]
Blockchain Wallet (Blockchain.com) is giving away $125 million worth of Stellar XLM tokens – and we’re not sure why. Their site says something about wanting to expand the cryptocurrency universe, and in order to do that, more people need to own cryptocurrencies. It would seem to me like this is some marketing ploy – where […]
People building their own Cryptocurrency GPU mining rigs have been eagerly awaiting the next generation of video cards that would allow them to mine more, faster. Disappointingly, at Computex last week, NVidia’s CEO Jensen Huang announced that the 1100 series video cards won’t be available for a long time. The 10-series cards were announced in […]
Simply put, a 51% attack is when malicious actors take over more than 50% of the hashing power of a coin. This allows them to write and verify things to the blockchain that aren’t legitimate. In order to increase the speed at which exchanges allow funds to move in and out, many have been slowly […]
In one of the newsletter’s I subscribe to, I recently got an email pointing out the price of Bitcoin in the month of March – going all the way back to 2010. Check it out: March 2010: $0.003 March 2011: $1 March 2012: $5 March 2013: $80 March 2014: $600 March 2015: $250 March 2016: […]
The Avalon Miner is one of the very few competitors to Bitmain’s Antminer family, and thus among the few at the top of the list of best Bitcoin miners. Using approximately 1150 watts, the AvalonMiner 741 hashes around 7.3 TH/s. Numbers like that are nothing to slouch at, but unless you can buy the Avalon […]