Trust Your Mining Service Providers
As more demands are placed upon us, human nature naturally takes the path of least resistance, maybe starting to cut corners and eventually something bad happens. When running mining rigs producing £80.00 / $120 a day each, any impact normally means a financial loss. Diagram describing how a mining network inter operates with other networks. When you look at how a typical mining infrastructure fits together, you get a high level architectural picture similar to the one on the right. Reviewing the diagram, the picture becomes clear out of five potentially joined networks a Miners'....
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Cloud mining service providers have been facing hard times ever since the Bitcoin price dropped below $320. Whereas major Bitcoin cloud mining service providers had to shut down operations for an undisclosed amount of time, new companies started appearing all over the internet. XScrypt is one of those cloud mining companies, but it looks like the “company” has gone bust after multiple issues with payouts. Running a cloud mining company is not as easy as it may sound. Not only does a cloud mining operator need access to mining hardware — either self-hosted or remote — but there are tons of....
In mining we trust. On the side of the US $1 bill it says "In God, we trust". Because money is all about trust. Trust that it's real, trust that it will remain at a similar value for the duration of the transaction at least, trust that the products are represented honestly. In the past trust that the paper was redeemable in gold, and more recently trust that our dollar will be backed by the "full faith and credit of the US Government". And when that trust is lacking society shuts down. To some extent, the crisis of 2008, in the same manner as the one in 1929 was about the lack of trust.....
Trust is a component in both gold currency and Bitcoin, although working in two fundamentally different ways. With gold, trust is almost always required, be it in mining, minting, or banking. On the other hand, with Bitcoin, mandatory trust only enters the equation with a centralized mining network. All other trust requirements with Bitcoin occur when an individual voluntarily gives a company or other person control over his or her coins. However, contrary to popular belief, Bitcoin’s trustless nature does not necessarily make it a winner over gold when it comes to trust. If Bitcoin mining....
Mystery filings using Grayscale’s name suggest the multi-billion dollar firm may be looking to expand the number of Trusts. Grayscale Investments could be set to launch a raft of new products including a Chainlink Trust, if freshly unearthed filings are to be believed. According to the State of Delaware’s Division of Corporations, someone set up a Grayscale Chainlink Trust on December 18, 2020. On the same day, a Basic Attention Token (BAT) Trust, Decentraland (MANA) Trust, Livepeer (LPT) Trust, and a Tezos (XTZ) Trust were also initiated. Before these communities get too excited,....
Cloud mining is risky business. Bitcoin mining in general can be risky business, but cloud mining in particular requires a lot of trust. Essentially, you are sending someone money on the promise that they will send you more money back. There is a lot of talk about hardware and cloud mining and state of the art facilities with giant server racks filled with powerful ASICs. At any given service, those things may or may not exist and few things can be done to make sure they exist. Hashie.co, a cloud mining service that claims over 40,000 users, has suspended operations. Users have lost their....