Cryptocurrencies

Sapphire will soon launch into mass production a new version of the Radeon RX 570 graphics card. Unlike the standard Radeon RX 570 cards equipped with 4 or 8 GB, the new Radeon RX 570 Nitro+ graphics card will be equipped with 16 GB of GDDR5 memory and will be aimed at mining the Grin cryptocurrency...

The Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum network will probably be activated at the end of February. This decision was made during a conference call on the morning of January 18. The Ethereum developers proposed carrying out the transition of the Ethereum network to the new software between February 26 and 28...

Interest in cryptocurrency in general and Bitcoin in particular is not waning. Today you can buy Bitcoin on cryptocurrency exchanges or on payment services, and more than a hundred Bitcoin exchangers are operating. And now Americans will soon be able to buy Bitcoin in grocery stores for cash...

On January 14, HTC finally began the shipments of the long-awaited "blockchain smartphone" Exodus 1, which had been planned back in December. The main difference between the Exodus 1 and ordinary smartphones is that it runs on the Exodus blockchain and has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet...

Bitcoin has once again begun to bring profit to miners. The BTC hashrate has continued to grow since the final stage of last year and has already risen by 35% over the past three months. Thus, in November 2018 the productivity of mining pools was 32 million TH/s, and today it has grown to 43.5 million TH/s...

The developers of the PixEOS project are creating a decentralized application that will give creative people and collectors an ecosystem where collaborative creativity and development in a game-based economy is possible, where everyone can contribute to a canvas of pixels...

The Chinese crypto industry giant BitMain is to this day the largest manufacturer of ASIC miners and the largest player in cryptocurrency mining, despite the fact that its share declined by the end of 2018 — the share of pools affiliated with BitMain fell from 53% to 39% of Bitcoin's hashrate...

The Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum network is being postponed. The decision to postpone the hard fork was made by the Ethereum developers because of a critical vulnerability found in one of the upcoming upgrades...

The research company Diar has presented an analytical report on the results achieved in the cryptocurrency market in 2018. The report lists the achievements and declines that occurred in the crypto market in 2018...