Pi Currency and Pi Network – an Introduction
Pi Network and its native Pi currency are a hot and interesting recent development in the areas of crypto-currency and social platforms. It’s interesting both for its scope as well …
Sending OMNI tokens to a Bitcoin address
Written March 2019. The OMNI protocol (omni layer) is far less popular than ERC20, but it is a much older non-native protocol for storing tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain. ERC20 …
Efficient Cooling for Profitable Crypto Mining at Home
Large-scale miners operating huge mining farms enjoy economies of scale and low energy cost. To stay profitable as an residential miner, efficient cooling is critical, in particular during a crypto …
Getting Started Transacting Securely in Monero (XMR)
Note: Monero goes through periodical scheduled hard forks for making system upgrades. Check https://getmonero.org/downloads/ for the latest versions and SHA256 hashes. As of April 2018 the version is 0.12.0.0 (Lithium Luna). …
Thermal Design of Crypto Mining and Multi-GPU Rigs
When using computers with large number of GPU cards, cooling and thermal management quickly becomes a major headache. Here we discuss an approach of building rigs with rudimentary but still …
Control NVIDIA GPU Fan Speed on Linux Ubuntu 16.04
NVIDIA GPUs have fan speed profiles that control the fan to keep the noise to a minimum. In high-performance computing applications when the system is in a datacenter, it is …
Mining Ethereum and Other Coin on NVIDIA CUDA Cards
Mining crypto currencies such as Ethereum without specialized hardware such as ASICs is still possible with powerful video cards, or GPUs. No-one know for how long this will continue, and …
The Strange but Wonderful World of Bitcoin
You probably have heard of “Bitcoin” and “crypto currency.” But how to get started? That’s why this article based on some real first-hand experience, from a consumer’s perspective. These are …