cryptocurrency
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Illegal Crypto Mining Operation Found Hidden Under High School
A man has been arrested and is facing charges in a small town outside of Boston after local authorities discovered “an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation” tucked away under a school’s floor.
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History Tells Us Why NFTs Won’t Work In Gaming
Here’s the story of the Team Fortress 2 economy, the steam marketplace and what it tells us about digital commodities like NFTs.
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Crypto Miners Are Dumping Tons Of GPUs, So Maybe You Can Finally Get One
The crypto market is continuing to fall, which has led a ton of miners to exit the market or to downscale their operations, thus finding themselves in possession of valuable computer components that they now no longer need. Some such miners, many from China and South Asia (where electricity is cheaper), are now taking that…
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Crypto Gaming Lures People In With The Promise Of Convenience And Riches, But It’s Actually Just Deeply Exploitative
Video games are increasingly incorporating blockchains, the decentralised databases that underpin cryptocurrencies, as well as NFTs and other “digital assets”. New games are emerging expressly to support blockchain technology, while traditional games are being updated to incorporate blockchains. As of October 2021, “crypto gaming” accounted for more than half of the blockchain activity over that…