Mining Roundup: New Viper Tests and Bitmain's Debut Cloud Mining Service
September is here, bringing cold air to many parts of the world that play home to bitcoin mines on both the hobby and industrial scale. If you're a home rig operator, you're no doubt looking forward to the day when you can turn down the air conditioning and let some of that cool fall air inside. This week's roundup takes a look at several corners of the mining community, from inside the new rig of a solar power-producing hobbyist to inside Bitmain's manufacturing facility. Alpha Technology releases update on Viper. The long-awaited Viper scrypt miner has reportedly moved closer to....
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After Much Speculation Bitmain Announces P2Pool Cloud Mining Service. Bitmain has announced a cloud based mining service called HashNest. For several months now, the community has speculated about whether Bitmain was building a cloud based service, and as Bitmain always do, they chose to hold their information until now. Coupled with the announcement of HashNest is that they are actively working on improving the P2Pool-protocol and will be implementing it for their services. This news comes on the heels of Coincadence buying P2Pool.org. Bitmain has also said they will keep it open source....
Bitcoin's breakthrough from a rather stagnant price has certainly made miners happy as of late. It might even entice the masses to splurge on a mining unit or two. Such an occurrence would certainly help the network as a whole. The recent meeting of minds between Chinese mining hardware suppliers brings back to the fore just how centralized mining continues to be. And while closed-door events like this are happening, the public must contend with the possibility that personal computers can be afflicted with mining malware - that's not positive for the cryptocurrency industry. With that in....
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....
Bitmain has announced the launch of its latest open source BTC.com bitcoin mining pool with new improvements and attractive pricing. Bitmain, the Bitcoin Mining ASICs manufacturer has launched a new open source mining pool. The new mining pool is part of BTC.com, the company’s Bitcoin block explorer, analytics tools and wallet services arm. According to the company’s blog post, Bitmain is offering a great deal to all the users joining its new mining pool. All miners on BTC.com mining pool will be able to mine the digital currency without having to pay any mining fee until next year.....
Cryptocurrency mining for fun and profit is always better with the latest and greatest information. With that in mind, CoinDesk's regular round-up details some of the most interesting events going on in the mining world in recent days - including an intriguing dogecoin announcement. So, let's explore some of the happenings since the last round-up. Mining heads to the cloud. Rackmount Servers. Image: Shutterstock. As bitcoin mining difficulty continues to rise, big-time miners are looking for a leg-up on the competition. If that's you, you might want to check out this article by Data Center....