The rise in price of video cards in retail is a phenomenon that can be seen with the naked eye. In the secondary market, the rise in prices is not so striking, but it also exists. Here’s a final example: In China, the average price of a hand-held graphics card sold has increased by $ […]
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If you don’t have a video card, but you really want to mine. Latest Intel Ice Lake-SP processors tested for cryptocurrency mining
Intel has just introduced Ice Lake-SP server processors – and now enthusiasts have tested their capabilities in nonspecific conditions, to put it mildly: two 24-core CPUs were tested in mining operations. What happened? In general, two 24-core Xeon Gold 6330s are still capable of replacing a video card when mining cryptocurrency: they showed a daily […]
Bitcoin crossed the $ 60,000 milestone, Etherium – more than $ 2,160
Today’s day began with a decent growth in cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, which for a long time traded in the range of $ 56,000 to $ 59,000, finally came to believe in itself and crossed the $ 60,000 threshold. At the time of this writing, for 1 BTC, they give a little more than $ 60,600. In […]
Capitalization of all cryptocurrencies exceeded $ 2 trillion
The total capitalization of all cryptocurrencies has reached $ 2 trillion. This was announced yesterday by CoinGecko and Blockfolio. At the same time, the capitalization of Bitcoin alone is about $ 1.1 trillion. The cryptocurrency market as a whole has doubled in just a couple of months. Back in early February, its capitalization exceeded $ […]
GeForce RTX 3060 has become a full-fledged mining video card. All protections were bypassed in just a month
The GeForce RTX 3060 was the first Nvidia graphics card to feature an initial software mining limiter. But it looks like her defenses have finally fallen. At first, Nvidia itself allegedly accidentally published a driver without built-in protection, but this only worked for one card in the system. Miners have found a way to bypass […]
Bitcoin mining with a yield of $ 2 over 100,000 years. The old Game Boy console was taught to mine cryptocurrency
It looks like IT enthusiasts have a new fun: to get some old device to mine cryptocurrency. It is unlikely that this initiative will be more popular than the launch of DOOM, but still. An example has appeared on the Web that even a very old and specific device can be forced to mine. In […]
One company buys $ 30 million worth of Nvidia CMP mining graphics cards
Younger Nvidia CMP video cards for mining are already available to customers, but they are mainly wholesale, so there is little information on the demand for such devices. Today it became known that the company Hut 8 Mining has purchased such accelerators from Nvidia in the amount of $ 30 million. It is not known […]
Now it is possible to mine “environmentally friendly” Bitcoin. The Terra Pool runs on clean energy
It is no secret that a colossal amount of energy is spent on the process of mining cryptocurrencies in total in the world. It has long been comparable to the costs of some European countries. Against this background, DMG Blockchain Solutions and Argo Blockchain are offering to join their Terra Pool, which they call the […]
The Hermitage will hold the first exhibition of digital art in Russia in the NFT format
The famous Hermitage, the state museum in St. Petersburg, announced interesting news. Against the background of the excitement around NFT authentication tokens, the Hermitage workers decided to hold the first exhibition of digital art in Russia in the NFT format. The NFT-Art exhibition will take place in 2021, but the exact date has not yet […]
Elon Musk announced the possibility of buying Tesla electric vehicles for bitcoins
Tesla has begun offering its customers a new payment option – with bitcoins. This was announced by the head of the company Elon Musk on his official page on the social network Twitter. Musk noted that the company uses internal open source software to work with bitcoins and does not convert cryptocurrency to fiat currency. […]