The State of Crypto Mining 2020 [Research]

Crypto mining is the method by which Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency transactions are verified and added to the blockchain. This can be done by anyone with mining hardware — from independent individuals to scaled cloud mining facilities. These crypto miners run the “proof of work” math on their computers to verify crypto transactions, and when they add a block to the blockchain, they are rewarded for their work with newly created Bitcoin, as well as transaction fees. Without crypto mining, there would be no Bitcoin, no blockchain — and especially no decentralization to the entire system.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Gold Standard

Not to be confused with the Midas touch, the gold standard is a basis for gauging the value of currency, and it played a critical role in the establishment of the U.S. dollar. The nation steadily veered further and further from a true gold standard, and today the U.S. dollar is truly fiat in nature — not backed by any intrinsically valuable commodity. …Read more

Monero’s RandomX algorithm fork and its aftermath

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This article aims to outline the situation of the Monero “RandomX” position while giving a perspective from our mining operation, how this affects us (including you) as miners, plus a plan of action that will follow. On November 30th 2019, the Monero Blockchain will fork again, and effectively switch the network’s underlying mining algorithm from Cryptonight-R to RandomX. The main goal of their update is, among other changes, to decimate all ASIC mining activity on the network in the name of decentralization. Mining will then only be possible via CPUs and certain GPUs.

 

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Everything You Need to Know About Federal Reserve Banks

When it comes to the federal reserve, there’s levels to understand. You’ve got the federal reserve, located in Washington, D.C, home to the chairman of the Fed and the members of the Board of Governors. But then you’ve also got several regional branches of the federal reserve — twelve, to be exact — that play their own roles within the national banking infrastructure. …Read more