The post The History of Bitcoin USB Bitcoin Miners appeared first on 99 Bitcoins. Note: USB Bitcoin miners (aka Stickminers) are not profitable ways to mine Bitcoin. Bitcoin Mining To quickly get up-to-speed on what Bitcoin Mining is all about, check out our introductory guide. Here’s a brief summary of the history: Originally, Bitcoin mining […]
Other than EOS and Tron which are still oscillating in the green territory, most coins are correcting and for good reasons. Leading the correction pack is IOTA which is down 14 percent and NEO which follows closely at 12 percent. It’s my expectation that sellers shall confirm the double bar bear reversal patterns that is […]
The fork of a fork of zcash made it onto Digital Currency Group’s “conviction list.”
Kraken CEO and co-founder Jesse made headlines recently for his strongly-worded response to the New York Attorney General’s request for information on the Kraken exchange, the largest bitcoin exchange based on euro volume in the world. The NYAG sent out a statement insisting that exchanges be more transparent, and issued 13 exchanges a 34 point […]
Make sure you check out the previous round-up here, now let’s go over what happened in crypto this last week. We regret the delay with the weekend round-up but, as they say, better late than never. Price Watch: Bitcoin was up 15% for the second week in a row. The gains come after a slight gain 2 weeks ago. After going […]
In the latest installment of its Signature Bounties campaign, Blockstack has partnered with ShapeShift to challenge developers to create a universal wallet. The contest, which began this morning, April 25, 2018, at 9:00 a.m. EST, will run until 11:59 p.m. on June 25, 2018. The winning project will be announced on June 29, 2018, and […]
The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) has warned Canada’s federal government that cryptocurrencies are increasingly being used by organized crime to launder money. The agency advises that checks and balances are necessary to monitor the digital coins, and pushes for the enforcement of amendments to legislation that would require crypto-related transactions be reported to the Financial […]
Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange Foxbit has recently revealed that, via the BlinkTrade trading platform, it updated its login process, making it safer for users. The update may be too late, however, as recent reports suggest the company’s poor security allowed hackers to phish users out of an estimated 58 BTC (about $540,000). The 58 BTC estimate […]
John Chambers, the former Chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems Inc., famously said that “there are two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that don’t know they have been hacked.” Some notable breaches over the past few years include the 3,000,000,000 email accounts at Yahoo, the 143,000,000 credit files at Equifax, […]
A Cisco patent suggests that internet customers would be able to create a distributed mining pool through a proprietary cloud application.