Vircurex halts withdrawals and freezes accounts Beijing-based Bitcoin and altcoin exchange Vircurex has made an announcement that they have stopped withdrawals for Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Feathercoin (FTC) and Terracoin (TRC). All incoming deposits will also not be credited at the time being. On March 24th the exchange will freeze […]
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KnCMiner’s first Scrypt ASIC mining rig, Titan is ready for preorder KnCMiner has started to accept preorder for its first ASIC machine dedicated for scrypt mining. The mining rig which is known as Titan will have an exterior that is based on the company’s existing Jupiter form factor. Inside
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Huobi exchange in China starts Litecoin trading on 19th March With Huobi getting ready to accept Litecoin on 19th March, the price of Litecoin took a sudden leap on BTC-e today. A company user survey has shown that there is an estimation of 20 percent of Bitcoin investors in
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Graphics Cards in Stock now for Scrypt mining With new Nvidia cards incorporating Maxwell architecture, the GeForce GTX 750 and 750 Ti is the better performance per watt choice. It is possible to build a decent mining rig of 1.8MHash/sec for $1,300 running on 6 GTX 750 Ti. But of
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Tutorial on merged mining Litecoin / Dogecoin and other Scrypt Coins Not to be confused with multipool mining, which switches to a more profitable coin automatically, merged mining lets you send hashes to multiple blockchains. That would mean that while mining Litecoin or Dogecoin, you would be able to mine
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AMD Radeon GPU price update for Scrypt mining Cryptocurrency-fueled demand has driven the price of AMD Radeon cards up. Considering the R9 290X carries an official $550 MSRP, the recent price hits $749.98. If you are still considering building a mining rig with R9 290X or even the R9
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Canada’s VirtEx announced support for Litecoin trading Canada’s biggest Bitcoin exchange, VirtEx has announced that they are opening trades for Litecoin with immediate effect. Customers will be able to trade Litecoin with Canadian dollar or Bitcoin. Our site will be going down at 9:30am(MST) for approximately 2 hours to upgrade
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TigerDirect now accepts Bitcoin Earlier this month, the online retail giant Overstock.com announced that they are accepting Bitcoin as a method of payment. This Thursday, TigerDirect revealed that they are now accepting Bitcoin as well. The US major electronics and computer parts retailer would be one of the largest businesses
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Cudaminer Guide for Nvidia GPUs Nvidia cards gained massive hashrate increase from the latest Cudaminer release (18 December 2013). CUDA Core is the term Nvidia uses to call the shaders in its GPUs. The Cudaminer is designed specifically for Nvidia GPU mining with Cuda accelerated mining application for Litecoin and
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Why Litecoin is more secure than Bitcoin Litecoin is technically nearly identical to Bitcoin but differs from Bitcoin in that it uses the scrypt based instead of SHA-256 algorithm, has a faster transaction confirmation time and is scheduled to produce 84 million units of coins. With Litecoin’s faster confirmation time
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