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Are Crypto Hardware Wallets Really Safe?

Are Hardware Wallets Really Safe? What happens when a safe practice, using a hardware wallet, has inherent weaknesses or vulnerabilities? You may find yourself at the mercy of the hardware manufacturer, with your crypto held hostage.

There are a lot of best practice recommendations for safely storing cryptocurrency assets. Don’t leave crypto on exchanges, backup / protect software wallets and private keys and using hardware wallets or cold storage for safe-keeping cryptocurrencies.

Are Hardware Wallets Really Safe?

What happens when a reportedly safe practice, such as a crypto hardware wallet, has inherent weaknesses or…

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Simple Peer to Peer Web Payments Using Crypto

URI Payment Scheme - Add simple peer to peer crypto payments in a website, blog or email but simplicity comes with limitations. #CryptoFeedz #DGBPayments #CryptoAcceptedHere

In this short article, I’ll be demonstrating how to integrate simple peer to peer crypto payments into a website, blog or even email.

Overview

This method of web crypto payments is entirely peer to peer and is only supported for cryptocurrencies that support URI for payment scheme. It also relies on the payer running a supported wallet node for payment initiation. This approach should only be…

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Mining 101 - Web Wallets

Mining 101 – Web Wallets

New crypto miners are faced with numerous challenges, choosing which coins to mine is one, where to store the mined coins is another.

If you are a new crypto miner, you’ve likely already learned the good practice that you shouldn’t store your cryptocurrency on a mining pool or crypto exchange. The coins you mine should be stored securely using a wallet that you control, which introduces several…

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Mining Tip - ASICs, Mine the Forks

Mining Tip – ASICs, Mine the Forks

Here’s a quick mining tip for getting the most mining profits from your ASIC mining hardware in these volatile crypto times.

Follow the Forks

In the ongoing battle between some cryptocurrencies and ASIC mining hardware, numerous coins are hard-forking their mining algorithms to exclude ASICs. Although I don’t personally agree with this approach, the decision to fork away from ASICs is ultimately…

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Crypto Miners Beware

Mining cryptocurrencies can be profitable and a lot of fun but does come with a few challenges for new crypto miners. #CryptoFeedz #CryptoMining #CryptoMinersBeware

This article will discuss some things new crypto miners should be aware of and beware of.

Mine to a Reputable Pool

There are many mining pools to choose from, choose wisely to avoid your mining efforts going to waste. Know your mining…

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Staying on top of Crypto News - KryptoCal

Staying on top of Crypto News – KryptoCal

Those of you who are interested in staying on top of the latest breaking crypto news, events and coin announcements need to check out KryptoCal. #kryptocal #cryptoevents #cryptoannouncements #kryptocalbot #cryptofeedz

KryptoCal is a platform providing late breaking cryptocurrency related events/ICO dates, coin announcements and  more all at your fingertips. They provide a variety of ways for you…

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Antminer Z9 Mini - Is it worth buying?

Antminer Z9 Mini – Is it worth buying?

In this article, I’ll be discussing the value proposition of one of the latest Antminer ASIC mining devices from Bitmain, the Antminer Z9 Mini. #AntminerZ9Experience #CryptoFeedz

Follow this article as I’ll be documenting my own experience with the purchase of an Antminer Z9 Mini, from the day I placed the order through its receipt to configuring and actually hashing Equihash blocks. Once…

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CryptoNote - Managed Pool Nodes

CryptoNote – Managed Pool Nodes

This project relates to developing an enhancement to CryptoNote, specifically the CryptoNight algorithm, to provide Managed Pool Nodes (MPN).

CryptoNote – An open-source technology and concepts for the cryptocurrencies of the future

This article is meant to describe the intent of this CryptoNote project and is not intended to be a complete Whitepaper on CryptoNote Managed Pool Nodes as a solution.

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McAfee Announces First Minable Fiat Cryptocurrency?

McAfee Announces First Minable Fiat Cryptocurrency?

Eccentric crypto advocate John McAfee (@officialmcafee) announced he is releasing his own printed fiat currency backed by cryptocurrency.

Is this a hoax? NOPE!

The McAfee Redemption Unit (MRU), is reported to have a release date of June 25, according to McAfee’s tweet from May 29.

McAfee also provided a graphical teaser of the soon-to-be-released fiat currency notes.

Nobody knows for sure if…

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Antminer X3 Optimization

In this crypto mining article, I’ll be covering some basic optimization settings for the Bitmain Antminer X3.

The Antminer X3 is an ASIC miner capable of mining cryptocurrencies that use the CryptoNight POW algorithm. The X3 is advertised by Bitmain as delivering 220 KH/s hashrate using @550 watts of power.

Antminer X3 Performance Overview

Before getting into the details of optimizing the…

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Trading 101 - Trading Crypto Altcoins

Trading 101 – Trading Crypto Altcoins

Now that you have bought some cryptocurrency on Coinbase, how do you make those coins available on other exchanges to trade altcoins? Coinbase doesn’t currently list any small altcoins so buying, selling and trading these altcoins must be done on a different crypto exchange.

If you don’t know how to convert your fiat into cryptocurrency for trading, check out this article on Crypto Funding.

This…

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Crypto Mining - Workstation Class GPUs

Crypto Mining – Workstation Class GPUs

Happy days for crypto miners! The graphical processing unit (GPU) shortage that has plagued the last few months appears to be letting up and GPU prices are nearing MSRP again. We are on the final countdown until the releases of the next generation GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD which should bring further price reduction for the current generation graphics cards. Crypto miners and gamers will be selling…

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Monero Delisted from Exchange

Monero Delisted from Exchange

Following the April dissension within the Monero community that resulted in numerous Monero coin forks, the altcoin Monero faces even more challenges.

Monero coin forks following Monero’s decision to hard fork in April

The leading Bitcoin Exchange in Asia, Coincheck has announced that it will be delisting  the privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero(XMR). Several other privacy coins are also…

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Trading 101 - Crypto Funding

Trading 101 – Crypto Funding

This article is intended to help you make your first cryptocurrency purchase and serve as a getting started for anyone who wants to get into crypto but is not sure how. It provides some tips to help you avoid some common mistakes as a crypto noob. I’ll also discuss some critical tips to help you avoid common issues and hopefully help demystify buying into the crypto market to allow anyone…