Is it Reasonable to Buy Crypto Mining Machines Before the Upcoming Bitcoin Halving?

Feb 26, 2020

The article analyzes whether it is reasonable to buy mining machines before the upcoming bitcoin halving from the perspective of ordinary individual investors. The essence of the crypto miner is the call option of bitcoin. The reduction of output by halving will lead to the reduction of market...

Coronavirus Hinders Chinese Blockchain Industry: Summits and Miner Sales are Delayed

Feb 4, 2020

Influenced by the coronavirus, a number of blockchain enterprises in China began its distributed office system (working remotely), but they find that they have nothing to do. The domestic summit is no longer attended by audiences, as many countries have banned Chinese citizens from entering t...

Will Upcoming TSMC’s 3nm Bring ASIC Miner Back to Peak

Jan 20, 2020

TSMC released its fourth-quarter results yesterday. Despite its poor first-half results, the company rebounded in the second half, with a net income of $10.39 billion at the end of the fourth quarter, exceeding performance expectations by more than $100 million. TSMC attributed 8.3% growth ...

For Miners: Controlling Crypto Mining Risks with Financial Tools

Jan 17, 2020

Financial tools help crypto miners to better avoid risks and lock in earnings. Crypto mining is different from speculation as mining input is a fixed asset with poor liquidity, such as mining machine and mining farm. In the long run, the asset of crypto mining is continuously devalued. The price...

Earlier Than Bitcoin Halving，Bitmain to Further Cut Half of Its Personnel by Chinese New Year

Jan 2, 2020

Bitmain has launched its ‘personnel optimization program’ by the end of 2019. At the end of last week, Jihan Wu, CEO of Bitmain held a meeting to ask all department managers to submit the ‘optimization list’. Bitmain will hold its annual meeting on January 17, and the optimization plan...

Former Technical Director of Bitmain Reveals how S9 Became the Dominant Crypto Miner

Dec 31, 2019

Bitmain’s team in Chengdu realized the cross-generation advantage to its competitors through dynamic triggers, which is also the main reason for the success of S9 miner. The design of S9 is a miracle of bitcoin miner, which has become the most productive bitcoin miner with a life cycle of more...

Cryptomining Attacks Remain One of the Nastiest Malware Threats of 2019

Nov 7, 2019

Cryptography is a tool that can work in two different ways. It can be used to hide information using encryption or, with the correct information, it can be used to track data. The latter is what people are talking about when they name transparency as the primary value of cryptocurrency or blockch...

Analysis: The Cost of Building a Crypto Mining Farm in China

Sep 29, 2019

At present, most Chinese crypto miners choose to trust their miners in the mining farms, but some miners tend to build a private mining farm by themselves as the good mining farm and the bad are intermingled, some ‘black-hearted’ mining farm even provide unstable power and trap contracts from...

Grin ASIC Miner to be Delivered in October, Hashrate is Expected to Test New High

Sep 4, 2019

Grin Asic Miner G 1 PLUS and G 1 MINI testing and product supply chain went smoothly. The core components of the chip and IP have been successfully manufactured. The first batch of Grin miners will be delivered in October as MiroComputer revealed. As the G 1 PLUS miners...

15 Chinese Arrested for Bribing Internet Café Administrators to Mine Crypto

Sep 3, 2019

Police in Henyang, a city of south-central China’s Hunan Province, has arrested fifteen men suspected of stealing electricity from Internet café to mine cryptocurrencies, according to a report by local media. During the past four months from June 2017 to July 2019, the cryptocurrenc...