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Crypto's War On Miners? It Might Already Be Over

Months ago, savvy coders were taking an any-means-necessary approach to keeping big miners off their blockchains. Now, reality is setting in.

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Asus' New Crypto Mining Motherboard Has Space for 20 GPUs

Motherboard maker Asus has debuted a new product aimed specifically at cryptocurrency miners.

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'Layer 2' Blockchain Tech Is an Even Bigger Deal Than You Think

The rise of solutions like the lightning network suggests crypto can have its cake and eat it too. Transactional scaling may just be the icing.

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Ethereum Classic Claims Successful Blockchain Fork

The ethereum classic difficulty bomb has been successfully removed, at least, according to the developers backing the 17th largest blockchain.

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EOS Forced to Patch 'Epic' Security Loopholes Ahead of Launch

Blockchain platform EOS says serious vulnerabilities reported by an internet security firm just days before its mainnet launch have been fixed.

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Japan's Ban Is a Wake-Up Call to Defend Privacy Coins

To advocate for regulatory leniency, we must consider the advantages, not the disadvantages, that privacy coins will provide to the greater community.

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A New Twist On Lightning Tech Could Be Coming Soon to Bitcoin

The lightning network is still new, but a group of its devs are already thinking about an alternative technology to better protect users' funds.

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China Poised to Form Blockchain Standards Committee This Year

China expects to form its national blockchain standards committee by the end of 2018, according to an IT ministry official.

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No Miners? Intel Seeks to Automate DLT Block Verification

A newly released Intel patent application sets out a system for automatically creating and validating blocks on a distributed ledger.

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What to Expect When Ethereum Classic Defuses Its 'Difficulty Bomb'

The upcoming ethereum classic fork will disable a 'difficulty bomb,' committing the network to a proof-of-work consensus algorithm.

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