We promised you reviews of all the hottest mining gear in 2018, and Bitsonline keeps its promises! Today we're trying out the DragonMing B52 Blake2b Siacoin ASIC miner. Halong Mining recently announced several miners in very short succession, and has shipped nearly all of them in short succession. Siacoin is pretty much the only currently viable Blake2b algorithm coin that can … [Read more...] about Halong Delivers Again: DragonMint B52 Blake2b Siacoin ASIC Miner Review
Bitcoin & Crypto Mining
Bitcoin & Crypto Mining
A New Russian Cryptocurrency MFC: What Is This?
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MFC is a currency proposed as the internal token of the "Freeland" – a democratic decentralized virtual state. Its goal is to create a society with transparent democracy: where people can create proposals, vote for other people, exchange goods, use smart-contracts ... all using their own MFC blockchain. Also see: Barclays Bewilders Investors with Baffling ‘Bitcoin Infection’ … [Read more...] about A New Russian Cryptocurrency MFC: What Is This?
Monero’s Hashrate Drops Bigly After ASIC-Blocking PoW Shift
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With the rise of Cryptonight ASICs, the devs behind privacy crypto Monero (XMR) implemented a new Proof-of-Work algorithm in the project's latest scheduled hard fork to mitigate these miners. Now, per historical charts, Monero's hashrate has dropped to ~270 MH/s at press time, going as low as 157 MH/s after the hashrate hovered over 1 GH/s before the fork. Also Read: Let … [Read more...] about Monero’s Hashrate Drops Bigly After ASIC-Blocking PoW Shift
Let the Decred ASIC Mining Begin! Our Review of the DragonMint B29 Blake 256
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Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining has been a highly debated hot button issue over the last couple years, with most of the focus on Bitcoin mining. Recently we reviewed a Cryptonight by Baikal miner, so let's try something a little different: a Decred miner. The DragonMint B29 Blake256 Decred miner is a 900 watt 2.3 TH/s ASIC from Halong. This machine was something of a surprise … [Read more...] about Let the Decred ASIC Mining Begin! Our Review of the DragonMint B29 Blake 256
HyperBlock Technologies Acquires CryptoGlobal for a Whopping Sum
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Canadian cryptocurrency mining company HyperBlock Technologies Corp revealed that it's acquiring CryptoGlobal, a Canadian blockchain and financial company that mines a range of cryptocurrencies. The acquisition came in at an impressive $135 million USD. Also see: Coinbase Reportedly in Talks with SEC to Become Licensed Brokerage Join the Bitsonline Telegram channel to … [Read more...] about HyperBlock Technologies Acquires CryptoGlobal for a Whopping Sum
