Bitcoin price slipped over the edge during weekend trade. Analysis looks at the basic chart indications and potential decline targets. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now. Bitcoin Price Analysis Time of analysis: 14h00 UTC Sunday Bitstamp 4-Hour Candle Chart From the […]
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Bitcoin price slipped over the edge during early Sunday trade. Analysis looks at a few basic chart indications and potential decline targets. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now. Bitcoin Price Analysis Time of analysis: 14h00 UTC Bitstamp 4-Hour Candle Chart From […]
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Bitcoin experts gave different reactions to the Florida court ruling last week that bitcoin is not currency, according to CNBC, including the view that the ruling doesn’t have much impact on the cryptocurrency’s future. Florida judge Teresa Pooler dismissed felony charges against Michell Espinoza who sold bitcoins to an undercover detective. Pooler ruled that bitcoins are […]
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Bitcoin’s price dropped by $30 this morning as market uncertainty increases due to an on-going closed door meeting between Bitcoin miners and Bitcoin Core developers. Details are sparse as no media representatives or independent observers have been invited to arguably the most important meeting in bitcoin’s almost eight-year history. What is known is that the […]
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Press Release: VCAP, a new Ethereum token to raise capital for the first feature film funded by cryptocurrency, was released this week. Produced by Hedley Productions LLC, Listen Carefully is smart, sinister comedy that gleefully takes on big business, the cult of self-improvement, and government paranoia. Thanks to the development team at Obsidian CryptoVault Technologies […]
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With Venezuela’s inflation reaching new heights, negative interest rates across Europe, Fintech passing the tipping point in China, blockchain based tech estimated to pass the tipping point in about five years, there are many opportunities and threats for Bitcoin, Ethereum and other public blockchains. Currently, both communities, but primarily Bitcoin, which remains deeply divided, are […]
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ZENEDGE, a provider of cloud-based, artificial intelligence driven web application firewall and DDoS cybersecurity solutions, announced the availability of ZENEDGE Single IP Protection, delivering enterprise-class network DDoS mitigation to organizations with less than a class C subnet. Traditional network DDoS protection leverages Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to determine routing decisions. An inherent limitation of routers […]
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Kenneth Kappler, CCO of Ethcore and an ex-Ethereum developer, offered an inside view on how the attack on the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) took place and gave his views on how future attacks can be prevented, according to Techworld. Kappler spoke at a London Tech Week event aimed at explaining blockchain technology. Problems with the […]
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Brian Armstrong, founder and CEO of Coinbase, admitted on Twitter last week there could still be bugs in the Ethereum DAO. This comes after various tweets encouraging the hard fork as a means of updating blockchain systems. “My hope is to see hard forks as an elegant upgrade/voting mechanism, not something to be feared that […]
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The Chamber of Digital Commerce, a Washington-based proponent and trade association of digital currency and blockchain technology firms has launched a new consortium called the Smart Contract Alliance. The Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC), a Washington-based advocacy group and trade association that promotes digital currencies and blockchain technology has unveiled a new consortium called the […]
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Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson has said that he would consider granting pardons to several high-profile convicts of hacking and computer-related crimes such as Ross Ulbricht, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning. In 2015, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was convicted of drug, conspiracy, and hacking charges, which gained significant popularity as the first darknet for […]
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One of the fundamental assumptions of blockchains, whether public or private, is that 51% of actors, especially miners, are honest. Logically, the more actors there are, the more the assumption stands. However, numerous bitcoin developers, including Gregory Maxwell, Peter Todd, Luke-Jr and others, have stated that bitcoin mining is centralized in two or three individuals. […]
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In a bid to track when police guns are fired a new type of gun is being designed utilizing blockchain technology, which would make police accountable each time a gun is fired. The Glockchain, which is being designed by a group of people, is one of many prototypes that will see many companies and designers […]
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Digital currency exchange and wallet provider Coinbase has extended bitcoin and ether buying to customers in Canada and Singapore, within days after announcing the same feature to Australian users. Firmly in its global expansion phase, bitcoin and ether exchange and wallet Coinbase has now enabled its bitcoin and ether buying feature to customers in Canada […]
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While some miners are attacking Ethereum Classic, the spin-off blockchain based on the consensus and protocols of the original Ethereum blockchain continues to gain support. After miner Chandler Guo announced he and other miners plan to attack Ethereum Classic Tuesday, Bill Shihara, CEO of Bittrex, a cryptocurrency exchange, contacted CCN express his skepticism about the […]
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32-year-old Steve Manos of Lake Worth, Florida was robbed at knifepoint as he attempted to buy $28,000 in bitcoin earlier this week. On a late Sunday night this week, Steve Manos thought he was partaking in a routine bitcoin sale with two men he had done business with in the past. Manos was looking to […]
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Bitcoin price toys with gravity after a non-committal Fed rates hold. Few large players, who have little perceived need for Bitcoin’s features, have any reason to hold a slumping commodity while stocks push to new highs. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join […]
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Blockai, a San Francisco, Calif.-based technology company, has developed a copyright service that uses the bitcoin blockchain to allow artists to protect their creative work in the digital age. While the Internet has unleashed a wealth of opportunities for creative work, protecting content has posed a big challenge, especially for independent producers of digital art, […]
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Open source blockchain developer Blockstream, notable for its endeavor for developing sidechains for the bitcoin blockchain has acquired multi-wallet provider GreenAddress. The acquisition, it says, will help the strengthen its sidechain platform. In an announcement yesterday, bitcoin blockchain-centric Blockstream revealed its acquisition of European multisig bitcoin wallet GreenAddress, in a move that will further accelerate […]
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Rory Cellan-Jones, a BBC technology writer, recently took advantage of Estonia’s e-Residency program and became an Estonian resident. He now has a plastic card with an embedded chip that confirms his identity. The e-Residency platform is an electronic identity system that Estonian residents and those with business interests in Estonia use to access government services. The […]
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Prior to the Brexit vote, an independence movement fizzled in Scotland. In the wake of Brexit, some Scots are reconsidering independence. In considering what went wrong in 2014, some blame failure to sufficiently address currency issues. In the interest of not making the same mistake again, some Scots want to consider how a national currency would […]
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“It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.” — Aaron Swartz
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Yunbi, one of China’s biggest Ethereum trading exchange, announced today that they were to postpone the listing of ETC in order to undertake “security preparations” to address vulnerabilities due to “Relay Attack.” Yunbi further stated that they had lost over 40,000 ETC “from users who deposited ETH before YUNBI listing ETC after Hard Fork:” “The […]
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Investigations in the aftermath of the recent terror attack in Munich which saw nine people killed in a Munich shopping center on Friday will now see darknet markets under the scanner. Speaking to journalists today, Holger Muench, the chief of Germany’s Federal Criminal Police (also known as Bundeskriminalamt or BKA), has stated that the emergence […]
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Bitcoin price teeters on the edge of a precipice like Wily E. Coyote holding onto an anvil. The roadrunner is further up the road at $680. Beyond lies the promised land of bitcoin price $2000. FOMC night is here again. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. […]
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Bitcoin Press Release: Lisk, the blockchain application platform, has experienced a healthy growth of its community throughout these past few months. Community members have developed tools and services that enhance the Lisk experience. July 27, 2016 Aachen, Germany – The Lisk team is excited about the communities’ involvement with the platform. Since launch, the Lisk […]
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Bitcoin Press Release: Breakout Gaming, the Blockchain-based Cryptocurrency gaming platform has announced the appointment of Board of Directors following the successful launch of its initial gaming properties. July 23, 2016, San Jose, Costa Rica – Following the successful launch of BreakoutPvP eSports and Breakout Poker platforms, the Breakout Group of companies has strengthened its management […]
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A senior associate and technology lawyer at global financial law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has discussed the legality of bitcoin in South Africa, a country where the cryptocurrency remains unregulated. In a blog published yesterday, Kerri Crawford, a technology lawyer and senior associate at global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright discussed cryptocurrencies with a particular […]
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In response to the challenges posed by technology, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has enacted initiatives to address cybercrime as well as the disruptions caused by the emerging fintech sector, including blockchain technology. The RBI has established the Reserve Bank Information Technology (ReBIT) has been established to address these issues. R. Gandhi, deputy governor of […]
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Steem is a blockchain-based social media platform where anyone can earn rewards by contributing quality content and rating content published by others. You can also mine it using a dedicated CPU miner if you have some spare power that you want to dedicate to supporting the network. The information regarding Steem is still highly fragmented and you need to spend quite a lot of time figuring things out even though they do not seem to be that complicated. We have spent some time trying to get things working and we have managed to successfully start mining Steem, so we have prepared a short guide to help you get started mining on Windows.
The first thing you need to start with before moving with the actual mining is to register yourself an account on the steemit website. Do note that registering currently requires you to either have a Facebook or Reddit account to use as a means of verification for your registration. After you register you can also earn Steem by posting quality articles on the website and interacting in the community in general and then you can also start mining using the guide below.
– Start by downloading the latest Steem Windows Wallet and Miner for Windows
– The miner binary is compiled for 64-bit Windows, so it will not work on 32-bit ones
– Extract the steem-win-x64-012-2.zip archive to a folder on your computer and run steemd.exe
– The first time you run the Steem Daemon executable it will create a witness_node_data_dir directory and inside will generate some additional files and folders
– Go inside the witness_node_data_dir folder and open the config.ini file with Notepad or another text editor
– Start by adding a few steem nodes to connect to, just paste the following list under P2P nodes to connect to on startup:
seed-node = 52.38.66.234:2001
seed-node = 52.37.169.52:2001
seed-node = 52.26.78.244:2001
seed-node = 192.99.4.226:2001
seed-node = 46.252.27.1:1337
seed-node = 81.89.101.133:2001
seed-node = 52.4.250.181:39705
seed-node = steemd.pharesim.me:2001
seed-node = seed.steemed.net:2001
seed-node = steem.clawmap.com:2001
seed-node = seed.steemwitness.com:2001
seed-node = steem-seed1.abit-more.com:2001
– Under the name of witness add your steemit.com username (you need to register prior to start mining), so make sure it is something like: witness = "myusername"
– Under the name of miner and its private key add your steemit.com username and private key, so make sure it is something like: miner = ["myusername","yourWIFprivatekeyhere"]
– If you are not sure where to get the private key, then just login to your steemit.com account, go to your Profile and then to the Permissions tab. Here you need to click on Show the private key for Active (you may need to relogin first). Do note that the key shown by default is the public key, you need to show the private key and use the private key in the config! Alternatively you can use the Owner private key, this is also your login password, but due to security reasons you better stick with the Active key.
– Under the Number of threads to use add mining-threads = 1 or higher number, depending on how much of your CPU you want to utilize for mining, more threads result in higher hashrate
– You are now ready to start mining, just run steemd.exe again and wait for the blockchain to synchronize, it could take something like 15-30 minutes or more (depending on your internet connection)
– The steem blockchain is over 3.5 million block already, but the size is not that huge yet, it is around 3.3 GB in size, so you will need more than that free space available
– In our tests with an Intel Core i7 5820K CPU (6 cores, 12 threads) running at 12 threads configured in the ini file we are getting about 44390 HPS (hashes per second) as a hashrate or around 31-33 KHS with just 6 active threads
– Do note that the mining apparently requires a lot of RAM, we get about 3GB used for 6 threads and about 5GB used for 12 threads for mining, so make sure you have enough RAM in your computer (8GB or more is recommended)
– All you have to do now is to wait for your miner to first find a POW block and then put you in the Miner-witness queue until your turn comes in to confirm a block in order to get your reward transferred to your steemit.com account
– For additional information about Steem you can visit the official website…
Digital currency exchange Coinbase has revealed its stance with the Ethereum hard fork, stating that it has no plans to support Ethereum Classic, the spin-off blockchain based on the consensus and protocols of the original Ethereum blockchain. In an announcement today, bitcoin and ether exchange Coinbase has revealed that its recently launched support for ether, […]
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Agentic Group, a New York City-based global blockchain consortium, has seized an opportunity to boost the U.K. fintech sector following the Brexit vote with the opening of a London office. The consortium, formed in 2015 to provide a cohesive voice on the financial implications of blockchains and digital currencies, has more than 35 blockchain […]
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Bitcoin and digital exchange Coinbase has expanded its services to Australia, enabling customers in the country-continent to buy bitcoin and ether with payment cards. In an announcement today, digital currency exchange and wallet provider Coinbase revealed its expansion effort to Australia. The move will allow users to buy bitcoin and ether with credit and […]
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Editor’s note: The insights established in this publication are solely that of the reporter and his source and do not represent any from CCN, nor Ethereum. The communication with the source has not been verified by CCN. A source close to Ethereum Foundation decisions came to me via Skype, then encrypted means to solely arrange […]
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Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin has addressed the no-fork blockchain Ethereum Classic which follows the protocols and consensus based on the Ethereum platform prior to the recent hard fork. In a telling statement via a blog post today, Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin revealed that the foundation that continues to develop and support the Ethereum blockchain […]
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The people that prefer to have full control over their Ethereum (ETH) addresses by running a local node with a full copy of the Ethereum blockchain could soon start having free space issues as the storage requirements continue to grow at a rapid rate. The Ethereum blockchain data is already getting close to 30GB in size and thanks to the Ethereum Classic (ETC) you may need to make a copy, so another 30GB of data for the ETC local wallet and blockchain. It may not be that big of an issue if you keep a single large blockchain on your computer, but people that use local crypto currency wallets usually have multiple of these and with the already huge Bitcoin (BTC) data getting close to 85GB in size as well as a few other more established older altcoins the free space required on your hard drive or let alone SSD if you use one can be over in no time…
Bitcoin price decline pulls deeper into the consolidation zone around $650. Below $640 there is a freefall zone to $600, yet a reversal at $640 cannot be ruled out. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. If you are new to trading or unfamiliar with the concepts […]
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German media is suggesting that the gun used during the Munich terror attack was bought through the Darknet with Bitcoin. Germany is the latest European country hit by a wave of gun activity with the world still reeling in shock from the news of 18-year-old David Sonboly who killed nine people in the Olympia shopping […]
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In just one month, ethereum has managed to code, deploy, implement and adopt a decision while fully upholding minority rights without one metaphorical shot being fired, showcasing the full power of public blockchains and first class blockchain governance. In just one day, ethereum dispelled all myths and arguments against public blockchain’s inherent guarantee of […]
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Trendon Shavers earned a lenient sentence through good faith efforts to right the wrongs he did while improperly managing the Bitcoin Savings & Trust, Bitcoin’s first federal securities case, according to his sentencing judge. That’s news the Bitcoin Community, which has long viewed Shavers as a no more than a fraudster, likely won’t heed. Bitcoin […]
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The European Commission – the executive arm of the European Union – has proposed a directive aimed preventing the use the financial system for terrorist financing which includes a central database for bitcoin and virtual currency users’ identities and wallet addresses accessible to government financial intelligence units (FIUs). The proposal seeks to require member states […]
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Ehereum (ETH) has successfully hard forked a few days ago and moved on a new chain, however this also brought to life Ethereum Classic (ETC) that continue to run on the old blockchain without any modifications that were made by the forking Ehereum (ETH). Initially the support for Ethereum Classic was a bit questionable, but after Poloniex – the current largest Ethereum (ETH) exchange added a market for trading ETC as well things started turning. There are already a few exchanges trading ETC with more probably soon to follow, multiple services such as block explorers and quite a few mining pools already available. The current value of 1 ETC is about 1/20th that of 1 ETH, but the daily volume traded on Poloniex shows that the Ethereum Classic has almost half the volume of Ethereum.
The most important question that people probably have at the moment is how they can get a hold of their ETC coins based on the ETH they are holding. There are some good and some bad news here, if you were running a local wallet then the ETH coins you had in it prior the hard fork will also give you the ability to have the same amount of ETC coins. What you will have to do is to run a copy of the blockchain prior the hard fork at block 1920000 and run a pre-hardfork client such as geth earlier than version 1.4.10. Of course for the ETH coins you would still need to run the original blockchain with a client supporting the hardfork (make sure you use different directories for storing the two chains). If you had all of your ETH coins in an exchange or an online wallet, then you might be out of luck unless that wallet or exchange provides support for ETC as well. In the case of Poloniex any ETH that you help in the exchange resulted in you getting the same amount of ETC, however still only a few exchanges do provide support for ETC.
At this point it is quite hard to say what is the actual amount of ETC coins that can be operated by their owners and unfortunately there is the chance that some exchanges that do not officially add support for ETC can still get a hold of the ETC coins that were available as ETH balances prior to the hard fork. So at the moment it is still hard to predict what exactly will happen with Ethereum Classic, all we can say is that we are seeing peak in user interest and support, but will that be enough to establish ETC as a long term alternative to ETH or not is still hard to say. So you might want to keep an eye out for ETC and if you can get a hold of your Ethereum Classic coins you should do so just in case. As for those of you that may decide to mine ETC (it is on a separate chain after the hard fork) you should know that there is still a quite a bit of risk involved and ETC future is still a bit uncertain. We are going to be keeping a track of how things with Ethereum Classic progress further on and keep you updated on how the situation evolves.
– For more information about the Ethereum Classic (ETC) alternative visit the official website…
Bitcoin price continues teetering on the edge of a precipice. A valiant effort to escape gravity, late on Sunday, has only seen price slump back toward $650. Unless the buyers capitulate, a large decline seems inevitable. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. If you are new […]
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A landmark criminal case believed to be the first involving a money-laundering charge involving bitcoin has seen its verdict. The criminal charges thrown out, with bitcoin not deemed to qualify as money, according to the ruling judge. Defendant Michell Espinoza was arrested in 201andmd charged with “illegally selling and laundering” $1,500 in bitcoin to an […]
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Minergate, a mining pool and the developer of GUI mining software that supports various mining various cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and Ethereum, is including support for Ethereum classic, the blockchain based on the original Ethereum platform’s consensus before the hard fork. Although the original Ethereum blockchain was officially abandoned following a hard fork that was triggered as […]
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There are a lot of people that use various GPUs for mining with the stock fans that the video card comes with and normally many of these fans start to have issues in just a couple of months or after a year or so. The time frame usually depends on how clean is the environment that the mining rigs are at and how well maintained are the rigs themselves. Sooner or later it is inevitable for the fans to start behaving worse than they were initially, because of the dirt they accumulate that slowly eats away the brass or bronze bushings of the non-serviceable cheap fans that most video cards use. By non-serviceable fans we mean these where you have no access to the mechanical parts of the fan when you remove the sticker of the fan. One of the most famous and widely used such fans are the ones used on Sapphire Dual-X cards, but there are others such as Gigabyte’s Windforce and so on.
The good thing is that these cheaper fans can actually be kept in good shape as well if you know how properly disassemble them to clean them on a more regular basis. Even if you have missed the point where the fans could be kept in top shape by cleaning them regularly and have instead started breaking down, there is still a chance that you can bring them back to life as long as they have not stopped completely rotating. We have prepared a guide on how you can completely disassemble a non-serviceable fan from a Sapphire 280X, clean it up and assemble it or repair it with the help of some new bearings that you are going to be using to repair the fan making it like new. Although this guide is specifically for Sapphire’s Dual-X fans, it should be pretty much the same for many other similar fans. For comparison the turbine type coolers used on most cards, although noisier, are much higher grade and more expensive fans that can last much much longer without any attention from the user.
Depending on if you just want to clean the fans or to repair them and make them more durable you may need a different set of tools. For the first you can go with just a spray can with cleaning fluid, but for proper repair and upgrade a few more tools will be required. You will need a spray with cleaning fluid to make cleaning easier, we are using TRW brake cleaner, but anything else that is not too aggressive to plastics should be fine. You can also use alcohol-based cleaner that is not under pressure to clean the parts of the fan as well, so pretty much anything will do here. You will also need a philips and a flat screwdriver, some cyanoacrylate adhesive, a small wood screw (or a larger one for plastics) and a pair of bearings with size 2x5x2.5mm in size (this is the correct size for Dual-X fans, some other fans may require different size of bearings). This is all you will need to prepare along with some patience and a few spare fans that you may initially break until you get the hang of things if you are not careful enough.
You need to detach the fans from the faceplate holding them, usually they are held by three screws each and then comes the first step in disassembling the non-serviceable fans. You need to carefully remove the top rotating part of the fan with the blades. The top part of the fan contains not only the blades, but it is also essentially the rotor part of the brushless motor while the lower part contains the stator of the brushless motor that rotates the fan. You need to separate the two parts carefully by using three or four of your fingers to push in between the two parts (some fans come of easily than others). The important thing here is not to pull the blades of the fan and they can easily break, you just need to apply enough force with your fingers in between the two parts of the fan and you will get the desired result of the two parts separating. Gigabyte’s Windforce fans for example do require more force to come off as apparently they have a stronger plastic locking ring.
Here are the two parts of the fan disassembled, this is essentially half of the hard part already done. At this point you can just use some cleaning spray to clean up the two parts of the fan, apply some grease on the steel shaft and reassemble the fans. This would be enough to extend the lifetime of the fan significantly if you do this maintenance once every few months of operation. You just need to make sure you use a pressurized cleaning fluid that will take out all of the dirt away from the lower part of the fan as it is harder to clean than the upper part. If you are doing only the cleaning part you can just push the two parts back together and everything should be fine for a couple of more months when it would be a good idea to repeat the cleaning process again.
For the people that want to repair and upgrade their fans with dual ball bearings thus extending their lifecycle significantly you will need to continue with the disassembling part. You need to use the flat screwdriver or a flat tool that you need to insert between two of the poles of the stator and gently apply pressure. Do not push too hard, if you do not feel the stator with the PCB below moving a bit, then just move to the next pole and apply some more pressure. This is needed, because the PCB with the electronics and the stator of the motor that is on top is glued to the plastic bottom part of the fan and you need to break the glue. Be very careful not to press on the thing copper wire sued for the windings as this may damage the motor, also too much pressure may break the stator away from the PCB, so you need to be extra careful here. There is just a drop of glue, so once you feel the part rotate a bit you should be able to separate the PCB with the electronics from the plastics pretty easy.
Here are the parts separated. As you can see the bottom plastic part contains the metal bushing (sleeve bearing fans) and on top of it is the plastic holder ring that locks into place the top part of the fan. The PCB and the stator of the motor show traces of some grease and dust accumulated on it. You need to remove the plastic holder ring and be careful not to loose it and under it is the metal bushing that you need to pull out and replace with the two bearings turning your cheaper sleeve bearing fan into the usually more expensive dual ball bearing fan that provides longer lifespan and reliability. As you can see when you remove the plastic holder ring there is a lot of dirt inside, this is the thing that essentially kills the fan because it eats away the bushing unevenly and destabilizes the rotating part of the fan.
You need to turn the screw inside the metal bushing with the help of a screwdriver, again be careful here, because as soon as you feel that the screw is not rotating, but instead the whole bushing is you will need to pull out the screw with the bushing attached to it. Be careful after removing the metal bushing, because under it should be a small black disc that is easy to get lost and you will need to put it back in when you clean everything up.
Clean everything well from the dust and dirt and make sure not to loose any of the small parts and then you will be ready to start assembling back things. The difference is that instead of returning the metal bushing back you will be inserting the ball bearings inside the plastic bottom of the fan.
Start by placing the small black disc inside the bottom plastic part, make sure it is seated well on the bottom before you start inserting the ball bearings. The two 2x5x2.5mm ball bearings should fit tight inside where the original metal bushing was, just push them carefully to get inside and place the plastic ring holder on top.
Apply a small drop of cyanoacrylate adhesive on the spot where the original glue was placed and quickly place the PCB with the electronics and the stator of the motor back on top of the plastic lower part. You can use the fan cables as a guiding point in order to properly orient the two parts, so that there will be no issues gluing them together properly. What you should be extra careful about while gluing the two parts is not to rotate the bottom too much as the white plastic ring can move around and while pressing the two parts together. Make sure it stays on its original position centered above the bearings as otherwise you may have to remove the two parts and try to glue them again after reseating the plastic ring.
Wait a couple of minutes for the glue to cure and you are ready to assemble back the two parts of the fan together. Just hold them parallel o each other and gently press them until you hear a click sound. This would mean that the plastic holder ring has moved to its place and has locked onto the steel shaft of the rotor (the top part of the fan). After that you can reassemble the fan on the video card and connect it to the power in order to test that everything is working properly and it should. As a result of replacing the stock metal bushing with two ball bearings you should have the fans rotating just like brand new with a little less effort and with an extended lifespan that the bearings should offer. What you have essentially done is to upgrade your cheap sleeve bearing (single metal bushing) to a higher grade dual ball bearing fan.
As a result you should have less problems with fans on your GPU mining rigs, but as we’ve already explained even if you do the simpler procedure of cleaning the stock fans every few months you should still experience much less problems on the long run. We have already cleaned, repaired and upgraded quite a few of these Dual-X, Windforce and some other similar fans with great success and are really happy with the results. You can even upgrade the cheaper sleeve bearing fans of a brand new card to dual ball bearings, and that should be possible on many video cards even without causing potential problems with the warranty of the card. The reason for this is that if properly done one would have to actually completely disassemble the fan using the procedure above or a similar one in order to find out that the stock bushing was replaced with ball bearings and that normally does not happen in service centers, maybe unless of course you send in the card with fan problems.
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) of New Zealand has noted it has received complaints from New Zealand based clients of igot, an Australia-based bitcoin exchange, about igot’s failure to repay clients in accordance with their instructions. Igot is not registered or required to be registered to provide financial services in New Zealand. The warning posted […]
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Institutional investors have become the largest group of bitcoin buyers because of the negative interest rate policy of central banks and the rising bitcoin price, according to Chris Vermeulen, founder of AlgoTrades Systems, a market technical analyst, trader and a financial author, writing in resourceinvestor.com. Vermeulen claims central banks have proven to be a curse for […]
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BitcoinETI, an asset-backed Exchange Traded Instrument that exclusively invested in bitcoin will be included in the Gibraltar Stock Exchange under the ticker BTCETI. In an announcement today, the Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX) has revealed its addition of BitcoinETI, a bitcoin-centric Exchange Traded Instrument (ETI). The stock exchange states that the asset-backed ETI’s inclusion will be […]
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Since the modern economy has gone digital, it has come to require more electricity. Peter Kelly-Detwiler, co-founder of NorthBridge Energy Partners, LLC, a consulting firm that helps companies connect assets to power grids, examined the impact that expanding cryptocurrency is having on energy consumption in a recent Forbes article. He raises the possibility power supply could […]
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Bitcoin price decline is on hold as the market chooses the upside. Is this the start of a new advance, or merely advance in a correction? This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now. Bitcoin Price Analysis Time of analysis: 15h00 UTC Bitstamp […]
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Another update in the form of a Windows binary compiled from the latest cpuminer-opt (source) CPU miner with added optimizations for many algorithms using the AES-NI instruction set (also works on older SSE2 capable CPUs). Up until recently the cpuminer-opt was available only for Linux users, but starting from version 3.3 there is also Windows support and we have compiled 64-bit binaries of the miner for Windows for the latest released version 3.3.8. The latest update brings some performance improvements such as blake2s with about 10% higher hashrate, support for new algorithms such as LBRY, Whirlpool and WhirlpoolX as well as fixed Skein2 that was apparently broken in the previous version.
In the archive below you can find multiple executable files that are compiled for different CPU architectures that support AES-NI instructions, so you are welcome to try them to see what works best for you. If your processor does not support AES-NI (CPUS introduced 5 or more years ago), then you might want to use the cpuminer-sse2.exe binary. The default cpuminer.exe is compiled for Intel Westmere, the first Intel architecture that has support for the AES-NI instruction set and cpuminer-amd.exe is bdver1 which should work on all AMD processors with AES-NI support. If you have a more recent Intel Sandybridge, Ivybridge, Haswell or Broadwell-based processor you can try the respective binary to see if that will squeeze some extra performance, or you can compile directly on your PC with the native instruction set supported by your CPU.
– To download and try the cpuminer-opt 3.3.8 CPU miner 64-bit Windows binaries…
Chandler Guo, a well-known and respected figure in the Chinese digital currency community stated that he, assisted by other miners, will 51% attack Ethereum Classic as soon as possible. View post on imgur.com Speaking to CCN, Chandler stated that they would isolate any block so that transactions cannot be confirmed which was necessary because of […]
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The Ethereum hard fork, executed to prevent future hacks like the DAO fiasco, marks the first Ethereum bailout, according to Frances Coppola, a finance, banking and economics journalist, writing in Forbes. The Ethereum community needed the hard fork to prevent future hacks because the code wasn’t properly tested to begin with, disproving the claim of […]
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Banks have not prepared to retain control of customers and merchant payment interfaces in the face of blockchain or distributed ledger, according to managing consultant firm Bain & Company white paper. Such technology removes intermediaries, simplifies counterparty connections and records data in a tamper-proof manner. It also promises faster speed, more transparency and efficiency for […]
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Thomson Reuters, a multinational media and information corporation which employs 60,000 worldwide with a yearly revenue of more than $12 billion, is sponsoring a three day HackETHon to be held from the 9th to the 11th of September 2016. The event is focused on Ethereum based smart contracts with challenges and prizes for data-driven smart […]
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Bitcoin price decline takes a break. The market is struggling to buy price higher in a correction, thereby, heralding the next wave of decline. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now. Bitcoin Price Analysis Time of analysis: 14h00 UTC Bitstamp 1-Hour Candle […]
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Donald Trump could become the next President of the United States. If and when he does, the subject of cybersecurity and the widening scale of cyberattacks will firmly be on the agenda. So what does Trump have to say about a subject that requires a certain understanding and nuance?
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The fundamental assumption of any blockchain, whether public or private, is that 51% of actors are honest. For this assumption to hold, there must be decentralization (a sufficiently large number of individual/entity actors to such extent that exercising direct influence on 51% of actors is unfeasible) in four key aspects: developers, miners/stakers, exchanges/businesses, and media […]
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Bitcoin price decline intensifies. Many participants are expressing anger at the prospect. However, remember that you share this market with bitcoin price whales – some of them orcas feeding on your buy positions, right now. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now. […]
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The Russian central bank’s director of Fintech, Projects and Process Management has opined that half of the banks’ branches and jobs in existence today will be obsolete in 10 years. The Fintech revolution is poised to deal a comprehensive blow to the current banking sector, according to Vadim Kaluhov, director of the Financial Technology, […]
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Ethereum is back in its upwards trajectory following a successful hardfork and Coinbase integration. The psychological resistance level of 0.02 has just been broken, paving a clear path towards the next resistance level of 0.025 with some suggesting it may surpass last month’s all-time high. The increase directly follows a successful hardfork where more than […]
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A collaboration between Canadian financial institution ATB Financial, German software multinational SAP, blockchain startup Ripple Labs and Geman bank ReiseBank AG has demonstrated the potential of blockchain technology, wherein an international payment took 20 seconds as opposed to several working days. German multinational software firm SAP has announced the results of an international cross-border payment […]
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Someone told my CCN post and published it on Steemit. They earned $400 [Editor’s note: The payout did not occur after the article was found to be plagiarized]. I earned substantially less. Why don’t I care? Because I am realistic about the nature of the Internet, the economy – and most importantly, Bitcoiners. I often […]
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The Siamining mining pool for Siacoin (SC) we have written about recently has also added Stratum support. Their Stratum implementation however is a bit different from the one that Suprnova has introduced a few days ago for their mining pool and thus requires users to use a different version of sgminer. While the Suprnova Stratum implementation is more of a getwork over Stratum and based on our tests it does perform very well, Siamining is claiming that their solution in true a Stratum support, so in theory it should result in slightly better efficiency. Of course the Siamining mining pool does still support the regular Siacoin Go pool miner that also produces very low percentage of stale shares, though with Stratum support the results should be even better now.
Below you can download a 32-bit Windows binary of the sgminer 5.4.0 fork for Siamining with Stratum support (source). Do note that this miner will currently only work with the Stratum Mining Protocol for Sia implemented by Siamining. The miner works on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs, so you should be covered regardless of the GPUs you have available, though it uses OpenCL for both. Our initial tests are showing really good results in terms of efficiency and lack of stale shares, so it seems that things are already working pretty well with this Stratum implementation for Siacoin (SC) pool mining at Siamining. As a result now you have even more alternatives for pool mining Siacoin to try and choose from…
– To download and try the new sgminer siamining fork for Siacoin with Stratum for Windows…
In a landmark case involving the first-ever federal securities fraud involving bitcoin, a Texas man identified as the operator behind a Ponzi investment scheme has received a sentence of 18 months in prison. Trendon Shavers, aka “Pirate@40” was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the charge of one count securities fraud due to his […]
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The group who goes by the name Poodlecorp (yes, really) has threatened to take down Pokémon Go servers with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on August 1st. If achieved, the attack is certain to rile up gamers who are already inundating its servers due to the game’s sheer popularity.
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Coinbase adds Ethereum just a day after a historical and highly successful hardfork. Coinbase customers in 32 countries can now easily directly buy, sell store and send eth from their Coinbase account, making a conversion from btc to eth unnecessary, saving money in conversion fees. The ability to buy eth further extends to a new […]
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Bitcoin price continues declining and we have to ask “why”? Unfavorable news? Bad fundamentals? Truth is: neither – commodities rise and fall due to leveraged speculation in their price charts. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now. Bitcoin Price Analysis Time of […]
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While most miners supported the Ethereum hard fork to prevent future breaches, Claude Lecomte, CEO at MinerGate, opposed the plan and posted a statement shortly before the hard fork took effect yesterday, claiming it will jeopardize Ethereum on legal, business and philosophical levels. Ethereum holders previously voted for a hard fork to deprive the DAO […]
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Bitcoin Press Release: Started since February 2016, Dicewallet has already gained the trust of many cryptocurrencies users. Different sponsorship was held as simple appreciation to those who downloaded the application. Headed by the Japanese CEO, Takuya Hashiyada, they were able to manage the everyday huge increase of users accordingly. Through the great leadership of their […]
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Press Release: With Ethereum growing in marketcap and popularity, still more people are seeking for the possibilities to trade Ethers with fiat currencies. As a result of that, SpaceBTC came up with a reaction and has launched ETH/EUR trading pair. Traders are from now on able to apply advanced trading features on their Ethers trading. […]
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Bitcoin miners in Chelan County, Washington, will have to pay more for electricity due to the approval of a new electric rate for customers with energy intends loads. Public Utility District (PUD) commissioners in Chelan County, Washington have approved a new electricity tariff for customers with an appetite for high energy. The new “high-density load […]
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Bitwala, a crypto-to-SEPA service that allows fiat currency transfers towards settlements from users who pay in cryptocurrency, now offers the least expensive way to use altcoins for international transfers, providing an economical option for the unbanked who wish to send money across borders, the company announced on its website. Users can make SWIFT or SEPA […]
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Ubitquity, the blockchain-powered real estate has undertaken the first real estate property ownership transfer using the cryptocurrency technology. According to the company they conducted the transaction through the Colu Coloured Coins protocol. In 2015, the company tasked themselves with creating a platform as a proof of concept using the blockchain, and by the beginning of […]
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A staff working paper written for the Bank of England postulates that central bank issued digital currency (CBDC) of 30% of GDP could permanently raise GDP by as much as 3% from lower real interest rates, taxes and monetary transaction costs, according to a recently published paper. The CBDC would be issued against government bonds. […]
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The first six months of 2016 have shown that DDoS attacks are only escalating in their frequency as well as their scale, according to the latest global report by DDoS mitigation firm Arbor Networks.
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Bitcoin price is caught in a market-wide down-draft and has fallen through the boards of a once promising channel of advance. It looks like we’re heading back to the consolidation support floor and, then, back to the trade planning drawing board. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis […]
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While LBRY is still in Beta and you need to request an invitation in order to be able to get early access to the platform (currently only available for Mac OSX and Linux), people have been mining the LBRY Credits (LBC) for a while now on AMD via the dedicated sgminer fork or on CPU, but today tpruvot has updated his ccMiner fork (source) with the final 1.8 release that adds support for LBRY Credits mining on Nvidia GPUs as well.
We have compiled a Windows binary of the latest ccMiner 1.8 source code from github and you can download and try it for mining LBC from the link below. It is a 32-bit Windows binary compiled with VS2013 using CUDA 7.5 for Compute 2.0 to Compute 5.2 Nvidia GPUs, though it also works on Nvidia Pascal GPUs. We are going to be testing the miner with different CUDA versions to see if there is a better working combination and if we find such we are going to update the binary. If you are in a hurry to get to mining LBRY Credits however you should be all set to start with this release and enjoy the good performance that Nvidia GPUs provide for this algorithm. Below is a quick benchmark with a few Nvidia GPUs using this Windows binary as an idea to what you can expect in terms of hashrate for mining LBRY Credits.
Mining hashrate for LBRY Credits:
– GTX 970 – 127 MHS
– GTX 980 Ti – 156 MHS
– GTX 1070 – 242 MHS
– GTX 1080 – 313 MHS
– To download the latest ccMiner version 1.8 by tpruvot with LBRY support for Windows…
Ethereum has achieved what some said was impossible. A controversial hardfork has just successfully completed. At block 1,920,000 a split occurred which lasted barely seconds: Ethereum’s price jumped yesterday when the fork became fairly certain. It continued to rally today with price enjoying an astonishing increase once the fork was successfully completed: After a month […]
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IBM is set to open the first Centre for Blockchain Innovation in Singapore in a bid to attract more technical talent from the country. Working with the Economic Development Board and Monetary Authority, the Centre aims to bring various technology pilots within the trade and finance industries over the next three years. IBM will also […]
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Panamanian crypto-teller machine TigoCTM has added Dash to its roster of cryptocurrencies for sale and purchase over its network in Latin America. With a new partnership, Dash will see its partner TigoCTM, a crypto teller machine company, add the cryptocurrency to its network of ATMs that already provides bitcoin and other digital currencies to adopters […]
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Bitcoin advocate and entrepreneur Charlie Shrem, the founder of bitcoin exchange BitInstant who was arrested in arrested and convicted in 2014 and held in a high-security federal prison camp since March 2015 has now been released from imprisonment. Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem, the former vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and founder and CEO of bitcoin […]
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Lily Allen, English singer and songwriter, recently tweeted to more than 5.8 million Twitter followers about Bitcoin. She is one of the biggest celebrities in the world to mention the crypto-currency. Bitcoin now more stable than the pound. Lolz — lily (@lilyallen) July 11, 2016 In January 2014, Allen admitted her regret at denying “hundreds […]
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Geneva-based Silent Circle, an encrypted communications company specializing in privacy-focused services and software has raised $50 million in a round of funding.
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EtherIndex LLC, a Wilmington, Del.-based corporation, has registered a trust called the EtherIndex Ether Trust with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), marking the first ether-based trading fund. The trust’s purpose is to give shareholders exposure to the daily change in the U.S. dollar price of ether, minus expenses and liabilities, according to its prospectus. Ether […]
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Bitcoin price has pulled lower into its consolidation zone. Although today has potentially bearish bias due to a full moon, there are indications and parameters that could see the advance pick up its pace. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now. Bitcoin […]
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Press Release: Since 2013, a dedicated team from Lebanon, started working on this bitcoin trading platform, and finished the development after a successful hardcore testing on hundreds of users simultaneously and thousands of active users. The platform was launched with real trading in July 2015 and offered the flexibility for members to trade bitcoins by […]
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With a new bipartisan bill by the House of Representatives, a call has been issued to the US Government to adopt a national policy to promote citizens’ access to new financial innovation including blockchain and digital currencies. A new Congressional resolution is calling on the United States government to support the development and ease of […]
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After more than a month of raging debate, Ethereum’s community has reached a conclusive decision. Ethereum will Hardfork. Some tense hours yesterday raised the prospect of a protracted fight, but, Ethpool cleared any doubt by announcing they are to support the hardfork: “[A]ccording to our voting policy stated in the announcement, we will support the […]
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Felix Weis, a Berlin programmer, visited 27 countries and 50 cities in the past 18 months only spending bitcoin. He related his 18-month story in Forbes to a reporter, Laura Shin. Weis wanted to prove that bitcoin was not dead, as many people were claiming at the end of 2014. He also believed that if bitcoin […]
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The Ministry of Finance in Russia, or the Russian FinMin, is not quite beating its drum to ban bitcoin anymore, going by recent remarks of deputy finance minister Alexey Moiseev. Instead, a new amendment to the infamous bitcoin ban bill will allow for the purchase of the cryptocurrency in the country, which can then be […]
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Was bitcoin’s price spike yesterday in response to the attempted Turkish military coup? Current events continue to make the case for bitcoin as an investment, according to Orange Peel Investments, an investment firm that describes itself as “long” on bitcoin. The company contributed an opinion about bitcoin’s role as an investment in Seeking Alpha. Turkish […]
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Press Release: Drachmae Club announces the Bitcoin, Altcoin and Blockchain competition for travelers where 10 winners will receive the membership to its exclusive DClub along with Drachmae Tokens. July 18, 2016 London, UK – Drachmae Travel Club, an exclusive blockchain travel portal is conducting a competition for travelers. The ‘Bitcoin Altcoin and Blockchain Competition’ requires […]
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JPMorgan has lost two of its senior leaders on its blockchain project, Juno, as they embark on starting up their own blockchain startup, a report by Quartz revealed. Will Martino, the lead developer and Stuart Popejoy, the head of Juno started Kadena.io in June; however, the two departures signify the difficult task that financial institutions have […]
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Bitcoin price looked to be advancing only to bump against the resistance ceiling. How to trade in the coming days (or weeks) is dependent on how the market negotiates $680. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now. Bitcoin Price Analysis Time of […]
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The first Siacoin (SC) mining pool with Stratum support by Suprnova is now available in beta and you are welcome to give it a try and report your experience with it. In theory the stratum support should result in further reducing the stale shares and improving efficiency, so if everything works fine you should be able to mine more coins for the same time. Again, a reminder that the pool is still in beta and since it was just recently launched it still has not found a block, but in order to attract users to test it out there is currently a promotion giving away 20% Bonus for every Block found on the pool. Do note that the pool requires a special fork of sgminer with support for Stratum for Siacoin (source).
Below you can find a 64-bit Windows binary of the miner for Siacoin (SC) mining that you need to use for mining on the pool. Our initial tests have shown that the miner offers similar performance to the one you can get with the Siacoin Go pool miner on other pools or just a bit faster with higher intensity. You may experiment with the settings and report what works best on your hardware, we have tested the miner on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs and it works fine on both. Again a reminder that the Siacoin stratum pool is still in beta, so it is for testing only and you might want to move just one GPU for example and not transfer all of your hashrate.
– To download and try the Siacoin sgminer Stratum pool miner for AMD and Nvidia GPUs…
All hail! The president of Liberland, an anarchist country declared between Croatia and Serbia, has had a baby. The country previously declared it would use digital currency, specifically bitcoin, as its national currency. “The objective of the founders of the new state is to build a country where honest people can prosper without being oppressed […]
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Indian authorities are investigating two syndicates selling drugs over the darknet using bitcoin. R.R. Bhatnagar, the director general of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), said that for the first time, the bureau has detected drug dealers using bitcoin and the darknet operating illegal drug trafficking in India. The NCB investigations have indicated that some of […]
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Research suggests that while the U.K. may be behind the U.S. with the number of blockchain startups, it leads the way in diversity compared to any other country. The world’s first blockchain startup tracker was introduced by Outlier Ventures in May of this year. Its aim was to provide a comprehensive overview of the various […]
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In a newly released report, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has analyzed certain websites or ‘business models’ that infringe on intellectual property rights, some of which that relies on bitcoin and TOR. The EUIPO, the authority that manages the EU trade mark and works alongside the IP offices of other EU member commissioned a […]
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Press Release: Apple has recently approved Freewallet as an AppStore participant. The most popular Ethereum wallet on Google Play developed by Freewallet is now available for iOS users together with a few more wallets from the Freewallet Family: Bitcoin Wallet, and Monero Wallet. This breaks the boundaries between cryptocurrencies and the majority of users, as […]
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iPayYou, a bitcoin wallet that allows users to send bitcoin to people who don’t have bitcoin accounts, has introduced Pay-by-Twitter, enabling users to send bitcoin directly to Twitter accounts. iPayYou becomes the first full-service wallet that enables peer-to-peer payments over the Twitter social media network. Users can send payments via email without the recipient having a […]
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With server issues, Pokémon Go players may have had trouble catching much this weekend and it wasn’t merely due to the tremendously popular game crashing a lot on account of a massive new roll-out. A hacker group has claimed responsibility for the server outage, with DDoS attacks.
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Bitcoin price pushed higher in a small advancing wave today, Although the price wave resembles the initial stages of advance, there is not yet high confidence that the push higher will continue. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now. Bitcoin Price Analysis […]
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In just three days, Ethereum is to undertake the first of its kind hardfork in the digital currency space. With Geth, Parity and Mist all having a hardfork release, all eyes are now on the miners. Ethpool/Ethermine was the first to open the decision to miners with more than 81% voting in support of the […]
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Switzerland’s fintech is failing to make an impact compared to New York, London, and Berlin, according to research, while Luxembourg and the Netherlands are threatening to overtake the country as a European fintech center. Other countries such as China, India, and Singapore are also making headway in the fintech industry. According to research group Statistica, […]
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Here is an updated ccMiner 1.7.6-r10 Widows binary of the Nanashi Meiyo-Meijin fork (source) with optimized Lyra2RE and Lyra2REv2 performance. The latest r10 update fixes the hashrate issues that were present with other versions of ccMiner on the latest Nvidia Pascal GPUs such as GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. You can see a brief test of the performance of the new 32-bit Windows binary of the miner compiled with VS2013 and CUDA 8.0 below.
ccMiner 1.7.6-r10 Neoscrypt performance:
– GTX 1080 – 985 KHS
– GTX 1070 – 889 KHS
– GTX 980 Ti – 840 KHS
Just as a reference the latest ccMiner fork by SP has managed to provide just about 365 KHS on GTX 1080 and 668 KHS on GTX 1070, so now you can fully utilize the performance of the new Nvidia Pascal GPUs for mining NeoScrypt-based crypto coins. Do note that the results quoted above are with
– To download the latest ccMiner 1.7.6-r10 with fixed Neoscrypt on Pascal for Windows OS…
IBM has introduced a cloud-based blockchain service for business-to-business networks that allows companies to test performance, interoperability and privacy of blockchain ecosystems. The company noted in a press release that the service is suited to organizations in regulated industries. IBM’s blockchain cloud is supported by IBM LinuxOne, which IBM considers the industry’s most secure Linux-only server. […]
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The latest Ethereum Go client Geth version 1.4.10 named “Return of the ETH” has been just made available for download as the go-ethereum team’s DAO hard-fork implementation. It enables anyone to choose whether they would like to support the DAO hard-fork or oppose it, and take them to their blockchain of choice. On startup (on the main network) Geth will print the currently configured choice, which you can freely change with the appropriate flag at any time. If no flag is specified, the previous configuration is used. If no fork choice was ever provided, Geth will default to supporting the fork per the majority vote.
How to make your choice:
– To support the DAO hard-fork, start Geth with--support-dao-fork
– To oppose the DAO hard-fork, start Geth with--oppose-dao-fork
– To download the latest Ethereum Geth client 1.4.10 with the Hard Fork support…
Bitcoin price keeps consolidating in a narrowing price range. Although there is a breakout building pressure in the chart, there is not yet any technical evidence of the eventual direction. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now. Bitcoin Price Analysis Time of […]
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Blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) has yet to achieve widespread use, but it is mature enough to begin commercial use. Ripple, a DLT technology provider, believes the time is ripe for banks to work together to initiate a network for more efficient inter-bank and cross-border payments, according to a white paper [PDF] by Ripple and […]
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Wirex gets it. Cryptos are only as valuable as the accompanying level of usability. Is this what mass adoption of bitcoin looks like? UK-based group Wirex is now offering a free virtual debit card through its pre-existing app. A user can easily download the app, register their account, download the card and then choose to load it with […]
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