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Introductory preview to XNM Protocol
Introductory preview to XNM Protocol
NovaMining is a start-up whose main objective is to improve the business model in the cloud mining industry, proposing to the market its…
Mattia Pintus
Aug 7, 2018
Mining’s Sustainability in crisis: HashFlare closes all SHA256 contracts
Mining’s Sustainability in crisis: HashFlare closes all SHA256 contracts
In recent times there has been a growing fear about the actual mining profits.
Mattia Franzoni
Jul 23, 2018
Analysis of the Lightning network routing problems reported by DIAR
Analysis of the Lightning network routing problems reported by DIAR
A study conducted by Diar on June 29 has revealed that Lightning Network technology wouldn’t be so effective, the reliability that…
Mattia Franzoni
Jul 9, 2018
What is the 51% attack?
What is the 51% attack?
Recently, there have been several "51%" attacks on different cryptocurrencies.
Marco Cavicchioli
Jun 8, 2018
A brief story of cryptocurrencies mining: from Cpus to Asics
A brief story of cryptocurrencies mining: from Cpus to Asics
In the early years of Bitcoin, mining was nothing more than a hobby for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. The only hardware required was a simple…
Mattia Franzoni
Jun 6, 2018
Lightning Network: the future of Bitcoin
Lightning Network: the future of Bitcoin
Currently, Bitcoin is experiencing this particular situation: slow and expensive transactions.
Marco Cavicchioli
Jun 1, 2018
That’s why Bitcoin is superior compared to other cryptocurrencies
That’s why Bitcoin is superior compared to other cryptocurrencies
There are hundreds or thousands of cryptocurrencies, each of them acclaimed by the fans or by their respective developers as faster, safer…
Alberto De Luigi
May 31, 2018
Overview on Mining power-consumption: is Green Energy a viable solution?
Overview on Mining power-consumption: is Green Energy a viable solution?
In one of the first articles published by NovaMining, one of the main issue about mining was shown. The article was written on October…
Mattia Franzoni
May 11, 2018
Analysis on main Bitcoin mining-pools
Analysis on main Bitcoin mining-pools
Bitcoin is increasingly becoming more popular and, accordingly, the bitcoin mining activity is increasingly becoming more competitive…
Mattia Franzoni
Apr 30, 2018
Grin: a lightweight implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol
Grin: a lightweight implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol
Currently, many Bitcoin protocol implementations are under development, which will bring many improvements to the end user, in the future.
Mattia Franzoni
Apr 22, 2018
The good Bitcoiner’s Top Ten Holy Rules
The good Bitcoiner’s Top Ten Holy Rules
In this lean period, with the price chart too faraway from the historical highs achieved in December, the crypto-trader is suffering…
NovaMining
Apr 9, 2018
Rush to 7nm ASIC chips development: incoming revolution in bitcoin mining industry
Rush to 7nm ASIC chips development: incoming revolution in bitcoin mining industry
Today, we are going to see the ASIC technology future, the new 7nm chips that will probably change the mining world by reducing power…
NovaMining
Apr 7, 2018
In-depth analysis on Stratum Protocol and its known vulnerabilities
In-depth analysis on Stratum Protocol and its known vulnerabilities
As mentioned in a previous article, Overt-AsicBoost allows to change 2 bits, the so called “version-rolling”, in the nVersion field of…
NovaMining
Apr 3, 2018
First-ever block mined using Overt-AsicBoost: Slush Pool plans Stratum Protocol Extensions as a BIP
First-ever block mined using Overt-AsicBoost: Slush Pool plans Stratum Protocol Extensions as a BIP
On March 24th, 2018, the first Overt-AsicBoost block was mined by Slush Pool at block #514882.
NovaMining
Mar 29, 2018
The Rush for the Hashpower
The Rush for the Hashpower
In order to prevent the destruction and bad organisation of Bitcoin Blockchain such miners have to achieve a consensus regarding the state…
NovaMining
Jan 18, 2018
Introduction on ASIC Mining
Introduction on ASIC Mining
The acronym ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) denotes a kind of integrated circuits (IC), customized for a particular kind of…
NovaMining
Dec 30, 2017
MAST: Smart Contracts on Bitcoin
MAST: Smart Contracts on Bitcoin
There is much talk about Smart Contract on Ethereum, and indeed they have led to several innovations on the cryptocurrencies world. But…
NovaMining
Dec 17, 2017
How to Increase Transactions Priority by Fees
How to Increase Transactions Priority by Fees
For many Bitcoin users, confirmation of some transactions takes long time. Bitcoin network involves 10-minute blocks and too many…
NovaMining
Dec 12, 2017
How bitcoin Mining is Profitable
How bitcoin Mining is Profitable
Bitcoin mining has definitely become a multi-billion dollar industry. Since 2008, miners have gained exponentially increasing features, we…
NovaMining
Dec 8, 2017
Main differences between PoW and PoS Cryptocurrency Mining
Main differences between PoW and PoS Cryptocurrency Mining
Following the cryptocurrencies world, you’ve probably heard about Mining, in particular about Proof of Work and Proof of Stake. In this…
NovaMining
Dec 3, 2017
Why fees are so high: use a SegWit address
Why fees are so high: use a SegWit address
Fifteen Dollars, these are the average fees that you have to pay today to send bitcoin from a legacy address to another Bitcoin address.
NovaMining
Nov 28, 2017
Introduction on Schnorr Signatures
Introduction on Schnorr Signatures
The Bitcoin scalability, the process useful to increase the cryptocurrency adoption by thousands of people, is now possible to get, thanks…
NovaMining
Nov 13, 2017
Introduction on Lightning Network and off-chain transactions
Introduction on Lightning Network and off-chain transactions
One of the main issues of Bitcoin is the slowness and costly on each transaction.
NovaMining
Nov 11, 2017
Introduction on Atomic Swap and the cross-chain exchanges
Introduction on Atomic Swap and the cross-chain exchanges
The countless number of centralized exchanges that suffer hacking, downtimes services due to many connected users and unexpected government…
NovaMining
Nov 10, 2017
Smart Contract: Cryptocurrency mining in a more sustainable, transparent and equal profitable way
Smart Contract: Cryptocurrency mining in a more sustainable, transparent and equal profitable way
In newspapers and in television we hear more and more talking about Blockchain and Bitcoin, but we can not say the same for another…
NovaMining
Oct 25, 2017
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