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ASICs vs. Everyone: Who Will Win the Crypto Mining Arms Race?

February 28, 2019 by Nuno Menezes at Bitcoin, Blockchain, Business, Cryptocyclopedia, Mining

Developers building public blockchains are faced with slowly losing the war against Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASICs). ASIC-resistant developers are facing an eternal “cat and mouse” chase in which some have claimed they may have already lost. Drawing from a post on Medium by Derek Hsue, in this article, BTCManager will...

New Paper Suggests China Could “Destroy” Bitcoin

October 11, 2018 by Nigel Dollentas at Bitcoin, Finance, News, Platform, Tech

East Asian influence has always played a significant role within cryptocurrency, but a new paper published October 8th, 2018, suggests China could not only singlehandedly cripple Bitcoin, but is already influencing the billion-dollar network. The paper titled “The Looming Threat of China: An Analysis of Chinese Influence on Bitcoin” talks about...