Palantir Denies Ownership of 'Quantum' Bitcoin Cloud Mining Service

Palantir Denies Ownership of 'Quantum' Bitcoin Cloud Mining Service

Earlier this week, a press release for a Hong Kong-based company called CoinFac began circulating a plan to "introduce the next generation quantum computing technology into cryptocurrency mining". The pitch promised big processing speed increases thanks to the claimed technology advances, and visitors to the CoinFac website are quickly directed to a series of cloud mining contract options. Though the website shows that contracts costing 50 BTC and 100 BTC annually are “sold out”, the site is still selling contracts costing 1 BTC and 5 BTC, respectively. But at least one claim in....


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