Former Digital River engineer sentenced to probation for illegally mining Ethereum on company AWS servers, causing $45,000 in ...

A former engineer has pled guilty to using his former employer’s cloud servers to mine crypto, costing the company over ...

In September 2021, Ethereum, the second most popular crypto blockchain, recorded 1.2 million daily transactions. And this is almost twice the number of transactions recorded daily at the same time ...

The crypto mining space is approaching a key inflection point. There are currently two dominant proof of work-based coins, Bitcoin and Ethereum. Bitcoin’s consensus rules are immutable and ...

The past few years have seen so many cases of ransomware and online extortion that it’s pretty rare to see an attacker deviate from the standard template: demand a cryptocurrency payment in exchange ...

Research into Bitcoin’s energy use has extended to mining’s total environmental cost and whether it can accelerate the green ...

Graphics processing units (GPUs), which are used for mining ethereum, are getting cheaper as the network prepares to switch to a proof-of-stake (PoS) model from proof-of-work (PoW), which will render ...

Ethereum’s Merge may reveal whether Chinese miners still have an influence on the crypto industry, said Matthew Graham, CEO of Beijing-based crypto investment firm Sino Global Capital. “It will be ...