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Blake2s Algorithm – Miners and list of all coins based on Blake (2s)

coinguides — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 08:55:41 +0000

The rise of ASICs have impacted a number of crypto projects and community in the recent times. Most of the PoW algorithms that was GPU mineable are now only mineable using powerful ASIC miners. All these machines are capable of performing few hundreds to thousand times faster than GPUs. Due to this GPU miners had …

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What is a premine? & What are some top cryptocurrencies that pre-mined?

coinguides — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:48:35 +0000

Fair distribution of wealth has nothing to do with mass adoption. Of course USD is not distributed fairly but it is the most widely accepted currency. But what about Cryptocurrencies? They are decentralized but are they fairly distributed? Even with Bitcoin, Litecoin and many other top cryptocurrencies only the extreme minority controls them. It doesn’t …

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Blake2b Algorithm – List of Blake (2b) coins, miners and its hashrate

coinguides — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 11:52:58 +0000

Back then GPU miners used to Dual mine Ethereum (Ethash) and Siacoin (Blake2b) using Claymore miner. It was a better option as it didn’t drop hashes nor it did increase much power. Moreover dual mining Ethereum and Siacoin was way more profitable than mining Ethereum alone. But that’s not the case anymore after the release …

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