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Cryptocurrency mining use of AIBs

The brutality of numbers: You need to make $5,000 a year to make it crypto-mining worthwhile. We have been investigating the impact on the AIB market by cryptocurrency monitoring for a while and we’ve written about it often. The following is an excerpt from an updated and curated monograph collection of our writings to give a perspective to the phenomenon ...

Jon Peddie

The brutality of numbers: You need to make $5,000 a year to make it crypto-mining worthwhile. We have been investigating the impact on the AIB market by cryptocurrency monitoring for a while and we’ve written about it often. The following is an excerpt from an updated and curated monograph collection of our writings to give a perspective to the phenomenon of the use of AIBs for mining. We estimate that Crypto-currency mining accounts for $1.1 billion dollars in AIB revenue since Q1’15, and accounts for sales of 4.5 million AIBs.  A cryptographic hash function is a hash function which takes
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