Neowin News Feed for: Cryptomining

Beware: Your Microsoft OneDrive could be under the spell of a crypto miner

Sayan Sen — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:02:02 +0000

Anti-malware vendor Bitdefender has discovered that Microsoft OneDrive is being used by crypto-jackers to mine cryptocurrency. The threat actors are using the DLL hijacking method to do so. Read more...

Ethereum price fluctuations suggests loyal cryptominers lack conviction about The Merge

Alap Naik Desai — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:10:01 +0000

Ethereum cryptocurrency and its loyal crypto-miners are at an inflection point. The transition from PoW to PoS was smooth, but that has made expensive crypto mining rigs all but irrelevant. Read more...

Harness the power of 25 GeForce RTX 3080's with the Antminer E9, on sale July 6

Sayan Sen — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 15:38:01 +0000

Antminer has been teasing its new E9 cryptocurrency ASIC miner for a very long time. Today, the E9 has launched, though the final official performance numbers seem to be lower than initial claims. Read more...

NBMiner brings 100% Nvidia LHR unlock to Linux for the first time

Sayan Sen — Mon, 09 May 2022 08:50:01 +0000

NebuTech's NBMiner has beaten NiceHash as it becomes the first to bring 100% LHR unlock to Linux PCs. The news follows the recent 100% LHR unlock for Windows that was released by the latter. Read more...

Nvidia fined $5.5 million for misleading investors about crypto market

Usama Jawad — Fri, 06 May 2022 16:04:01 +0000

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined Nvidia for not telling investors that their rise in revenue in 2018 was due to cryptomining interest rather than its gaming business. Read more...

Sapphire GPRO X080 mining GPU already costs 38% less, miners probably didn't care

Sayan Sen — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:32:01 +0000

In December last year, Sapphire launched a couple of dedicated mining cards for crypto-miners. The larger among the two variants, the GPRO X080, is already 38% down in price since it launched. Read more...

Nvidia RTX 3050 is here to save budget gamers as it's purportedly really bad at mining

Sayan Sen — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 19:32:01 +0000

Nvidia's upcoming budget gaming GPU, the $249 RTX 3050, could be a great graphics card for gamers. That's because early alleged Ethereum mining numbers for the GPU suggest it is pretty poor at it. Read more...

Likely fake "4090TI" and "RX7000" are already being used to mine over 2.5TH/s of Ethereum

Sayan Sen — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 09:46:01 +0000

Alleged "4090TI" and "RX7000" have been spotted in a cryptocurrency mining pool farming Ethereum. These devices are capable of outputting over 2.5TH/s combined but are probably not real GPUs. Read more...

Nvidia's new RTX 2060 12GB seems like the perfect Christmas present... for miners

Sayan Sen — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 16:50:01 +0000

Testing shows Nvidia's new RTX 2060 12GB graphics card is extremely efficient at cryptocurrency mining. The GPU is producing efficiency levels of close to 400kH/J. The card can also game decently. Read more...

New Radeon RX 6600 XT is reportedly super-efficient at crypto mining

Sayan Sen — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:18:01 +0000

The Radeon RX 6600 XT may be the most power-efficient Ethereum mining GPU according to a video that shows its alleged performance. The card is apparently doing 32MH/s while sipping just 55W of power. Read more...

Special SSDs for Chia mining launched by PNY, all-new LX2030 and LX3030 are here

Sayan Sen — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 06:46:01 +0000

PNY has launched its new LX series of M.2 PCIe Gen 3 NVMe SSDs, namely the LX3030 and LX2030 models. The new SSDs are designed for Chia cryptocurrency mining with very high endurance (TBW) ratings. Read more...

Mining Chia is not very profitable at all, finds study

Sayan Sen — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 06:04:01 +0000

Chia cryptocurrency farming is not a long-term profitable venture, finds a study conducted by Backblaze. The company has run a cost-benefit analysis of the coin to reach this conclusion. Read more...

Gamers rejoice, graphics cards are finally getting cheaper

Sayan Sen — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 14:22:02 +0000

According to a new report today, prices for GPUs are finally coming down. It says that German retailers have noted a significant fall in Nvidia GeForce graphics card prices over the last two months. Read more...

This UK farmer is using cow dung power to farm cryptocurrency

Sayan Sen — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 06:30:01 +0000

A farmer from the UK has started using the waste produced from his farm's cows to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency using GPU mining rigs. What's more, the business appears to be growing. Read more...

SSD makers are cutting down warranties and endurances due to Chia mining

Sayan Sen — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 05:03:49 +0000

The Chia crypto-coin has been causing shortages of storage hardware like SSDs and HDDs. Some of the SSD makers have now started to react by reducing the endurance and warranties on their products. Read more...

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Mozilla switches on tracking protections for all its users

Paul Hill — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 15:26:01 +0000

Mozilla has turned on tracking protections for all Firefox users with the latest update. Just 20% of users were protected before today but the figure is expected to reach 100% when users update. Read more...

Firefox 67 launches with WebRender and cryptomining blocker

Paul Hill — Tue, 21 May 2019 12:33:51 +0000

Mozilla has released Firefox 67 onto the stable branch. The update is pretty big with initial support for WebRender and the inclusion of a cryptomining and fingerprinting blocker to enhance privacy. Read more...

Android emulator Andy OS is reportedly injecting cryptomining malware onto PCs

Timi Cantisano — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:16:02 +0000

Andy OS, a popular desktop Android emulator, has been reportedly found to install a cryptomining malware. The report has been denied, but there is quite a bit of information proving otherwise. Read more...