Bitcoin.com Founder Roger Ver Donates 1000 Laptops, Copies of Economics in On...

Known to many as "Bitcoin Jesus," Bitcoin super-investor and activist Roger Ver has run into major problems recently. Ver famously renounced his United States citizenship in 2014 and was denied a traveling visa this week by U. S. consulate officials. This being his latest attempt to visit Miami to attend an upcoming Bitcoin conference. Roger Ver has taken to social networking site Twitter to vent his frustrations at these new traveling restrictions. Ever since the Christmas holiday, Ver has been turned down three different times in the span of eight days. Roger Ver @rogerkver@tom_sharkey....

Images have surfaced on Twitter reportedly showing a crypto-mining operation using laptops fitted with high-end Nvidia RTX 30-series graphics cards.

In one of the more exciting developments in the Bitcoin space so far this year, noted Bitcoin angel investor and entrepreneur Roger Ver has given his blessing to a Bitcoin 2.0 application, and it's one that some may have overlooked in the past. Truthcoin, a Bitcoin sidechain designed by Yale Department of Economics Researcher Paul Sztorc, is described as a "peer-to-peer oracle system and prediction marketplace."The platform is a decentralized method of bringing external data, such as the price of gold or the weather in a particular city, to the blockchain, which can then be used as the....

Chinese GPU miners are apparently buying up Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 30 laptops to set up ETH mining farms. Chinese cryptocurrency miners are reportedly buying Nvidia's new laptops to mine Ether (ETH) amid the altcoin hitting new all-time highs.Nvidia’s latest GeForce RTX 30 laptops have become increasingly popular in China as a tool for mining cryptocurrency, according to several sources.On Feb. 6, a Weibo user known as BTCer posted a bunch of images showing off GeForce RTX 30 series gaming laptops making up a solid crypto mining farm. “A laptop mine is up​,” BTCer noted in the post....

Peter Sunde, co-founder of the beloved (and hated) Pirate Bay, has returned to the public after being released from jail. Now, he has his sights set on the music industry once again, making it the butt of his satirical new gadget. This machine is called the Kopimashin; its sole purpose in life is to make 100 copies of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” per second. Sunde talked about his Kopimashin on the Konsthack art and hacking forum. Sunde says: The Kopimashin creates an endless amount of copies of a specific audio track (gnarls barkley’s crazy). The audio track is copied to /dev/null, a unix....