Harvest Project Mines ZCash to Fund Climate Change Research
It does not happen all that often that we see digital currency and renewable energies come together in a tangible form. While climate change is a very real problem, …
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Major Malvertising Campaign Mines Cryptocurrencies Using Users’ Browsers
Mining cryptocurrency has become even more popular over the past few months. Unfortunately, this trend has also attracted a lot of attention from cybercriminals. As a result of this …
FutureBit Moonlander 2 Makes USB Mining Exciting Again
There are a few different ways for people to mine alternative cryptocurrencies. In most cases, they require either powerful graphics cards or ASIC hardware. However, it turns out USB mining …
Will Mining Cryptocurrency Harm My GPU In the Long Run?
Interest in mining cryptocurrency has skyrocketed lately. This has caused a major wave of sales of PC graphics cards, which has actually driven up the price of many mid-range cards. Mining …
What Is Grid Computing?
People with an interest in cryptocurrency often look at different ways to earn Bitcoins and other currencies using different means. It appears some have looked into the concept of grid computing to …
This Trojan Could Install Cryptocurrency Mining Software on Your PC
Windows users are all too familiar with the concept of backdoor Trojans, malware, and ransomware. CowerSnail is a new type of backdoor Trojan which seems to share a lot …
AMD GPU Sales Explode due to Cryptocurrency Mining Goldrush
We live in quite an interesting era of cryptocurrencies right now. Back when Bitcoin could still be mined with a GPU, a lot of miners bought large amounts of …
Bondnet Botnet Hijacks Windows Server Machines to Mine Monero and ZCash
It was only a matter of time until a new botnet would start making the rounds. It appears this new type of malware originates from China, albeit that has …
CoinFac announces quantum computing technology for cryptocurrency mining
According to recent reports, CoinFac, a technology company established this year, has just introduced a next generation quantum computing tech, meant for digital currency mining. In return, this will …