Items tagged with ethereum
There are plenty of uncertainties and grey areas currently lurking around the cryptocurrency market. From wild fluctuations in valuations, to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin being used on the black market, to government institutions that are looking to get in on a piece of the action, we're still in the "Wild Wild West"...
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Last November a hacker going by the name "DevOps199" found and exploited a flaw in the code for a subset of Ethereum wallets. That user was able to exploit teh vulnerability and take ownership of an Ethereum code library known as a smart contact. Once the hacker owned that smart contract, it was destroyed leaving...
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Atari has just announced something that will surprise all the gamers out there who grew up on its consoles and games. The company made a big unveil today and while it's not a new console or game, Atari will actually be minting its own new type of cryptocurrency. The new altcoin type will be called "Atari Token" and...
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The effect that cryptocurrency mining has had on the graphics card market has been so extreme, very few people could have predicted it. GPUs that were as easy to purchase as a gallon of milk became as hard to find as the hottest deal at Best Buy on Black Friday.
In addition to the rarity, inflated pricing has been...
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When AMD announced its earnings last week, the company made it a point to indicate that it would boost capacity in order to address the GPU supply strain caused by booming cryptocurrency mining demand. Yesterday, it was NVIDIA's turn to release earnings -- which it knocked out of the park, by the way -- and it too is...
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If you need any more evidence that cryptocurrency mining is hitting primetime, look no further than this latest report that Samsung is looking into get in on the action. Samsung is reportedly producing application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for Chinese customers that will be use for Bitcoin mining. The...
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Update, 2/5/2018: We have a new article posted detailing CyptoNote (Monero) mining performance with AMD's Threadripper processor with a CPU-optimized algorithm, alongside a handful of other processors and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Update, 9/15/2017: We've updated our Ethereum mining benchmark numbers in this article to...
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After witnessing Bitcoin's explosive growth, everyone and their uncle is now getting into cryptocurrency mining, some for extra money and others in hopes of striking it rich. There are now more than a thousand cryptocurrencies out there. With new miners now showing up in droves (and existing ones expanding their...
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Early yesterday morning, we brought you news of a YouTuber that managed to get his hands on one of the first NVIDIA TITAN V graphics cards that shipped to well-heeled customers. BitsBeTrippin' slapped the chest thumpin' Volta-based GPU into an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X system, and cranked out 70 MH/s at stock...
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We know that NVIDIA's TITAN V is a massively powerful videocard, one that we are a thousand percent confident can run Crysis, so no need to ask. But will it blend? Probably. That just leaves one question to answer—how well does it mine cryptocurrency? Pretty darn good, as it turns out. As in, almost double the mining...
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Christmas is coming early for long-term investors in Bitcoin. The red-hot cryptocurrency has skyrocketed during 2017, most recently crossing the $9,000 threshold on Sunday. At the time, we opined that Bitcoin could be well on its way toward hitting $10,000 by the end of the year.
Well, we barely made it 48 hours and...
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If you've been following cryptocurrency news over the past few months, then you know that Bitcoin has been on an incredible winning streak. On August 26th, Bitcoin was at $4,300. Three months later, Bitcoin's price has more than doubled.
At this moment, Bitcoin has breached yet another high, sitting at $9,065. At the...
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If you recently jumped on the Ethereum bandwagon, you might want to sit down for this news. A security vulnerability has been discovered in the Parity wallet service deployed by Parity Technologies.
According to a security alert issued by Parity Technologies today, the vulnerability was found within the standard...
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Something big is happening in the cryptocurrency market. Ethereum, the second largest digital coin behind Bitcoin, is receiving a major change to its codebase on Sunday, and nobody knows what exactly will happen. The update amounts to another hard fork, which for the most part have gone well for Ethereum miners and...
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It has been hard for months now for PC enthusiasts and gamers to find the video cards they want, because miniers have been buying them up to mine whatever their preferred cryptocurrency might be. Back in late September, we talked about prices for GeForce GTX 10 Series video cards possibly climbing due to a DRAM...
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Abnormally high GPU pricing has been an issue for a long time now, but things really hit a peak when AMD launched its Radeon RX Vega series last month. Immediately, the graphics cards were nearly impossible to find, and those that were in stock were found with seriously inflated prices - sometimes with a nearly $200...
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What is a blockchain? When considering cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum, it's best to first understand the underlying technology and framework that makes their existence possible. At its core, a blockchain is a what is described as a "shared ledger" technology that is used to record the complete history of transactions that have been
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There has been a run on cryptocurrencies in the past year or so, especially when it comes to Bitcoin and Ethereum. The latter has especially been popular, with enthusiasts quickly gobbling up high-performance NVIDIA and AMD GPUs to bolster their mining efforts.
While many enthusiasts and even some well-respected...
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NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 10 Series and AMD’s Polaris family of Radeon GPUs have been popular with Ethereum miners since the start of 2017. Many of these cards have been in short supply, and the GPU market actually showed an uncharacteristic uptick in growth during Q2 because of this demand.
With that in mind, all eyes...
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The supply problems surrounding AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 64 flagship consumer graphics cards have been well documented. However, the Vega 64 isn’t the only new enthusiast graphics card that AMD has on deck; it also announced the slightly less potent Radeon RX Vega 56 (read our review of both cards). The Vega 56 launched...
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If there's one thing that's been made abundantly clear over the past couple of years, it's that if you dabble in cryptocurrency, you really need to do your homework and due diligence to make sure you don't wind up on the opposite end of an attack, or scam. Some Ethereum owners are learning this lesson the hard way...
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ASUS is releasing a motherboard with 19 PCI-Express expansion slots, and no, it is not intended for gamers who want to play Crysis (or any other title). This one is aimed directly at digital coin miners as the cryptocurrency craze rages one. Like the California gold rush that lasted from 1848 to 1855, this...
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