BitFury Announces Hosted Mining Services for Business Customers
One of bitcoin's biggest mining infrastructure providers, BitFury, has launched a new hosted mining service for business customers. The company claims the scheme will provide customers with "optimal and reliable" - but low-cost - hash power to maximise the return on their investment. BitFury says its ASICs and specialised mining hardware have established it as the market leader in both constructing and managing computing centres for mining operations. According to the company, approximately 40% of all bitcoins are mined using BitFury-made chips. DigitalBTC and CryptX became the first....
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