From the Ravencoin dev team ”The Ravencoin Dev team has now confirmed the algorithm changes. We will be moving from X16R to X16RV2 on Tuesday Oct 01 2019 16:00:00 UTC We are adding the algorithm Tiger into three seperate parts of the current X16R algo. The Tiger hash is performed before the algorithms Luffa512, Keccak512, and SHA512. We will be releasing a new build this week or at the beginning of the next (2.5.0) that will have the algorithm switch in it. The new build will also be fixing some bugs, and adding some improvments into the Ravencoin Core Client. We are recommending tha ..read more

From June 18th Bitmain announced that the new Antminer S9 SE is now available to order for a pretty respectable $351. Although technically its not "new" its still offers a great price for 16THS and 1280W if you have a low energy cost. With the price of Bitcoin recently surging this may start becoming more and more viable, and checking today (01/07/2019) on Bitmains website they are officially sold out. Is the S9SE something you would be interested in? Or would you go all out for something bigger such as the monster T17? You can check out the S9 SE here ..read more

Brave browser has been making waves which by many was totally unexpected, their internet browser has proven to be fast, reliable and most important rewarding. Brave grew to 5.5 million active users in January this year with the figure now way more than that, this includes over 28000 verified publishers and growing use via Youtube and Twitch The most impressive for me this year was the new partnerships announced, they werent no little partnerships all of them brought big names to the table Dow Jones Media Group, Townsquare, Baker/DeFrancoWe partnered with Dow Jones Media Group to bring premi ..read more

If you were lucky enough to purchase an Antminer Z11 before they sold out then good news for you that a custom firmware has now been released by Efudd which allows you greater control over your miner. It allows the ability to overclock, control voltage and achieve a higher performance than the stock settings, all done at your own risk of course According to the develpoer the modified firmare will take you from the stock 135KSol to 150 and if you wish to push it even further but might want to get some extra cooling 170-180 is claimed to be possible. One huge drawback though, the customer fi ..read more

Crypto has been given a big push in the payment system as Whole Foods and Starbucks now accept Bitcoin via a 3rd party app Flexa and its wallet Speedn. Although they arent directly taking Bitcoin and it is done via the 3rd party it is good news that could pave the gateway for Amazon to start accepting crypto as Whole Foods is owned by Amazon. These are just a couple of the big stores, Flexa is currently reporting that they support payment in 30,000 different stores, if this truly works out could we see a wider adoption? The 3rd party system was always going to be the winner, directly I am n ..read more

The Wall Street Journal has all but confirmed that Facebook is building their own crypto based payment system in the article they have posted here. Its been a long long time that we have been waiting for a major company to adopt crypto for payment and this could be a huge start in a forward progress. They currently have code named it Project Libra and the report says that Facebook is building a stable coin backed by the fiat, so similar to tether? Also reports suggest that they have been on a huge recruitment drive with dozens of financial firms and online merchants to support their own cry ..read more

Massive announce from LocalBitcoins.com today that they have now fully integrated Segwit address for sending and receiving Bitcoin. This is great news for users who regularly sell and buy as this will hugely drop all your transactions fee's sending and receiving, also should see an increase in transaction time I see also today that BTC.com have also integrated Segwit which is good news all round for all use Bitcoin users, recent times have been pretty bleek with high fee's and long transaction times ..read more