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Bitmain is building a massive $500M cryptocurrency mining farm in Texas

Aug07
by on August 7, 2018 at 11:22 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Insider


Bitmain, monster of cryptocurrency mining, has shown off plans for its brand new blockchain data center to be built in Texas – it’s worth $500 million and it’s already under construction. The announcement claims that initial operations should begin by early 2019. Bitmain expects it to be at full steam in “about” two years, at which stage 400 jobs would have been injected into the economy of Rockdale, Milam County.  “This represents an investment of more than $500 million by Bitmain over an initial period of seven years into the local, county, and statewide economies,” the release reads. “The Milam…

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Bitmain is building a massive $500M cryptocurrency mining farm in Texas

Aug07
by on August 7, 2018 at 11:22 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Insider


Bitmain, monster of cryptocurrency mining, has shown off plans for its brand new blockchain data center to be built in Texas – it’s worth $500 million and it’s already under construction. The announcement claims that initial operations should begin by early 2019. Bitmain expects it to be at full steam in “about” two years, at which stage 400 jobs would have been injected into the economy of Rockdale, Milam County.  “This represents an investment of more than $500 million by Bitmain over an initial period of seven years into the local, county, and statewide economies,” the release reads. “The Milam…

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4 reasons why you should try ‘social trading’ — and learn from the best

Aug07
by on August 7, 2018 at 9:44 am
Posted In: Around the Web, The next generation of money management


One of the most prominent developments in the financial industry in recent years is ‘social trading,’ spurred by the fintech revolution. Moving trading practices from professional brokers into the hands of individual traders created a fertile breeding ground for the invention of new trading methodologies. Social trading combines traditional trading practices with online communities and has quite a few advantages for both novice and experienced traders. Here are four worth mentioning: 1. It saves you time With social trading comes ‘copy trading,’ a specific feature invented and patented by eToro. Copy trading enables traders to replicate another trader’s actions in real-time. For…

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4 reasons why you should try ‘social trading’ — and learn from the best

Aug07
by on August 7, 2018 at 9:44 am
Posted In: Around the Web, The next generation of money management


One of the most prominent developments in the financial industry in recent years is ‘social trading,’ spurred by the fintech revolution. Moving trading practices from professional brokers into the hands of individual traders created a fertile breeding ground for the invention of new trading methodologies. Social trading combines traditional trading practices with online communities and has quite a few advantages for both novice and experienced traders. Here are four worth mentioning: 1. It saves you time With social trading comes ‘copy trading,’ a specific feature invented and patented by eToro. Copy trading enables traders to replicate another trader’s actions in real-time. For…

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This app makes writing Ethereum smart contracts super easy, perhaps too easy

Aug07
by on August 7, 2018 at 9:43 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Writing smart contracts for Ethereum is no longer the preserve of coders and programmers: there is now software that can automatically do that for you – or so the claims go. Enter Fondu. The app provides a tool that helps non-coders get into the Ethereum smart contract game and launch their ICO without the need for learning how to code, or even pay a coder to write it for them. The process is simple. All you have to do is answer some questions regarding the characteristics of your ICO, and the required code is automatically generated. The files required to…

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