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Bitcoin Soars Towards $13,000 (Update: Make That $16,000)

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Original, 12/6/2017, 10:30am PT:

The price of Bitcoin continues to rise at an incredible rate. Following Black Friday, the price of one...

Can BitCoin mining still be profitable with nice GPUs ...

Can BitCoin mining still be profitable with nice GPUs?

Masonisbetter

Jan 7, 2014, 2:35 AM

So I have been watching the prices of the R9 280x for a while now, and when the price suddenly went up by $110 dollars in less than a month, I was a little curious as I still had yet to buy my second one. As of right now I have 2 R9 280Xs which I bought for gaming, but I have heard that this price spike was...

Date: 2016-12-24 17:00:00

LiteCoin mining Rig (RPi setup, or...?) - [Solved] - Systems

CraftedElements said:

Aren't the cards I linked ASICS? And doesn't vertcoin combat those?

Yes, the Vertcoin has extra ASIC protection for it requires double the RAM over LItecoin scrypt and the memory requirements change with Vertcoin giving it yet more protection from ASICS.

babernet_1

Oh, I understand now. Those ASIC's you linked don't mine Litecoins, they mine Bitcoins only. Use the...

Date: 2016-12-24 17:00:00

The Rise Of Cryptojacking And How To Stop It

Over the last few months, we've seen multiple reports of websites using cryptocurrency mining scripts that load along with the website and use visitors' CPU cycles to mine various cryptocurrencies . (Some used these tools intentionally; others did not.) This practice is called cryptojacking--a combination of "cryptocurrency" and "hijacking"--and now another tool has been caught engaging in this...

The Ethereum Effect: Graphics Card Price Watch (Updated)

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Update, 12/7/17, 9:45am PT: The price of Ethereum has fluctuated wildly since our original piece and updates were published; meanwhile, the price of GPUs has done the same. We've updated this article substantially from the original to reflect current market trends.

What was possibly the worst GPU shortage in history has finally ended, but we might be about to face another one. As...

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