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Top 10 Risks All the Newbies Should Know Before Holding Cryptocurrency Assets

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Since its birth in 2009, the price of bitcoin has gone from scratch to a few cents and even as high as US$20,000. The astonishing increase has not only made many early investors earn a lot of money, but also attracted thousands of latecomers to “follow up”.

Under the influence of slogans such as “To Da Moon” and “one coin for one villa”, many “followers” have completely lost their sanity and forgot the advice of “Investment is risky”. Driven by the FOMO (fear of missing out) psychology, they rushed into the cryptocurrency market. Once the bear market came, they were “given a good beating” in the market.

Will Iran Become the “Mining Paradise” after Mining goes Legit there?

08/10/2019 Mining Analysis No Comments 1396 Views1

Iran, which has always been critical on cryptocurrencies, has suddenly changed its attitude.

On July 22, the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) announced that the Iranian Government Economic Committee had approved the establishment of a cryptocurrency mining mechanism. Some people believe that the new policy will make Iran once again become a “mining paradise” after the mine disaster last year.

Although there used to be attraction of electricity price as low as 4 cents, the mining workers migrated to Iran would still face a lot of challenges. Supervision, customs and local bully could make all their efforts worthless overnight.

Now, since the supervision department in Iran has changed the attitude, will the mining workers have smooth migration to Iran?

Does Bakkt mean New Prospects for Bitcoin Futures?

05/10/2019 Blockchain Analysis No Comments 1303 Views0

The NYSE parent company, ICE, originally planned to launch the Bakkt Bitcoin Futures Exchange in December 2018. Due to various reasons, it was delayed until the July 23 when the global user test of bitcoin daily and monthly futures contracts was finally launched. It finally went online on September 23.

The glamor of Bakkt not only comes from its compliance attempts in physical delivery, but also its traditional financial background and strong investment institutions.

GPU Mining Will Not Go Obsolete Any Time Soon

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The bear market is over and the new rising cycle from bear to bull markets is brewing. Why do we claim the bear market has been over? Because the market first changed the trend of the bear market with continuous increase in volume, which has completely got rid of the declining inertia of bear market. Secondly, under the expectation of bitcoin halving, the users continue to be optimistic with very high mood and full confidence in the future. Thirdly, the network hashrate of bitcoin has broken new record high and re-entered a new rising cycle and the situation of Ethereum has also started to reverse.

Taxation on Cryptocurrency?

30/09/2019 Cryptocurrency Mining News, Mining Analysis No Comments 1476 Views0

Since the bitcoin is getting more and more popular, mining has become the key to the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The mining workers have been driving the transaction and verification for cryptocurrencies. Therefore, the mining industry has always dominated the expanding cryptocurrency world. For many people, the mining has even grown into a thriving business.

As mining costs and competitiveness become increasingly higher, the mining workers are trying to maximize their profits by means of tax deduction.

Cryptocurrency Investors is Now Targeted by the IRS

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With the rapid rise of cryptocurrencies and the explosive growth, the political forces in many countries are reaching out to the emerging industry of cryptocurrency.

How is the Future for Anti-ASIC Miners?

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All the cryptocurrencies in the world are derived from mathematics —- if you can solve complicated mathematical problems faster than anyone else, then you can make profits.

As a result, members of cryptocurrency community found themselves in a symbolic arms race of hash race where they could run the mining equipment with poor performance in early stage. And now, the increasing difficulty means they need more efficient ASIC miners.

How to Cancel Bitcoin Transfer with “Double-Spending”?

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On July 24th, Jonas Schnelli, a member of bitcoin core development team, failed in online shopping and he angrily asked BitPay why his order was rejected on Twitter.

Layer 2 Solution for Bitcoin and Ethereum

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There is an “impossible triangle” problem in the blockchain industry, that is, the security, scalability and decentralization. People can only achieve the other two by sacrificing the third one. In order to “solve” this impossible triangle, people have thought out many solutions, including the Layer 2.

Now, let’s make a brief introduction to Layer 2.

Unboxing and Review for Bitcoin Miner Antminer S9K and S9SE

19/09/2019 Antminer, Bitcoin Miner, Rating No Comments 2306 Views2

In June 2016, Bitmain released the bitcoin miner Antminer S9 (refer to: Evaluation on Antminer S9 16nm Bitcoin Miner), which adopted the 189 pieces of the latest BM1387 chips independently developed by Bitmain. The overall hash could reach 11.85 TH/s with 1172W power and 100W/T efficiency. The BM1387 is the 5th generation bitcoin miner chip independently developed by Bitmain, which adopts TSMC 16nm FinFET process and fully-customized designs. The maximum hash of a single chip can reach 74GH/S.

No one ever expected that a classic bitcoin miner Antminer S9 had come into being since then.