# Monero News News
Monero developers are set to fork the network in their continued efforts to brick application specific integrated circuit (miners) on the blockchain. The move should significantly lower hash rate allowing small-scale mining operations running graphics processing units (GPUs) to compete favorably and make the network’s PoW algorithm less ASIC-friendly.This according...
Building on the work he’s done with Monero (XMR) in the past, core team developer Riccardo “Fluffy Pony” Spagni is primed to launch a decentralized assets framework on the privacy-centric protocol, along with Naveen Jain and Dan Teree. The move is compared to Bitcoin’s colored coins project of 2012, and...
The Monero hardware project completed the first stage at the end of April, developing the internals and boards. The next stage is to develop a proper enclosure, perform injection molding and other finishing touches; the project’s funding goal is already approximately 25 percent complete. BTCManager spoke to Michael Schloh von...
Circle Invest, the cryptocurrency investment app from Circle - a firm that has been around since 2013 - announced support for the fungible altcoin, monero (XMR) on May 7. Widening the Circle Since Circle Invest joined the crypto bandwagon back in 2013, the firm has not stopped making it easy...
Cryptojacking, the novel hacking process which inflicts a victim’s computer with code to mine cryptocurrency, is evidently on the rise as hackers have targeted hundreds of popular websites with fraudulent software to mine the fungible digital coin monero (XMR). “Cryptojacking” A Sophisticated Crime In 2018 alone, thousands of users have...
