Tag Archives: hardware

Hardware vs Mobile vs Software vs Card

[ad_2][ad_1] Ripple is for large organizations that send a large volume of transactions. It aims to be safe and takes only a few seconds per transaction. In fact, it states that Ripple can handle up to 1000 transactions per second. This puts Ripple in the same league as traditional payment …

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Bitcoin mining now burns more energy than producing precious metals, including gold – Hardware – Finance – Networking

[ad_1] Energy demands for the extraction of four major cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, outweighed the energy costs of extracting real metals such as gold and copper, according to US environmental researchers. Data mining cryptocurrencies involve increasingly complex calculations to confirm new transactions and add them to the decentralized accounting on which …

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Ethereum Foundation, Filecoin Back Plan to create fault-free hardware

[ad_1] The Ethereum Foundation is funding efforts to create data mining hardware specializing in partnership with Filecoin, the blockchain data storage network. Announced Thursday at Devcon, the annual gathering of developers in Prague, researcher Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation presented preliminary designs for application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, which …

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Siacoin Hard Fork To Brick Mining Hardware

[ad_1] The team behind the decentralized cloud storage solution, Siacoin, has decided to engage fully in their blockchain to make ASIC-based extraction ineffective on their network. In a blog post at the beginning of this month, co-founder of Siacoin and main developer, David Vorick announced the move: "After many discussions …

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