If you’re looking for evidence that pretty much everyone is jumping onto the cryptocurrency bandwagon, look no further—Burger Kings in Russia are now offering customers promotional “Whoppercoins” with the purchase of every Whopper. Yes, really. The Whoppercoin tokens were reportedly issued using the Waves Platform, and the value of each token isn’t yet clear—though speculation […]
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Amazon Alexa: now with more CryptoBadger!
August 22nd, 2017 
CryptoBadger If you have an Amazon Echo or other Alexa-enabled device, you can now use it to ask CryptoBadger to fetch the latest cryptocurrency prices. Just say “Alexa, enable CryptoBadger skill” to install my simple plugin, and then you can say things like “Alexa, ask CryptoBadger: what’s the current Bitcoin price?” Prices come from Coinbase, and […]
Tags: Asus to release mining motherboard with 19 PCIe slots
August 22nd, 2017 CryptoBadger Asus has announced plans to release a motherboard aimed squarely at cryptocurrency miners. The new mainboard will be dubbed the B250 Expert Mining and features a whopping 19 PCIe slots. In addition to theoretical support for up to 19 GPUs, the board features a unique power setup and diagnostic tools designed to make troubleshooting initial […]
PSA for Bitcoin holders: it’s a good time to extract your forked Bitcoin Cash!
August 20th, 2017 CryptoBadger If you were holding any bitcoin in a private wallet on August 1st, an equivalent amount of Bitcoin Cash (BCC/BCH) was created under your control during the hard fork. You don’t need to rush to do anything to claim or secure it—assuming you control the private keys to your BTC, those same keys will access […]
New AMD Vega GPUs yield disappointing mining performance out of the box
August 15th, 2017 CryptoBadger Reviews of AMD’s new Vega GPUs are starting to become available from reputable sources, and early mining test results don’t look great. Tom’s Hardware posted a first look of a Radeon RX 64 Vega (8GB) card yesterday, and only managed to hit 30.9 MH/sec on the latest version of Claymore’s miner. That’s comparable to performance […]
Recent Ubuntu release causing issues with AMD 17.x drivers
August 14th, 2017 CryptoBadger Update 8/27: Reports are coming in that this issue has been resolved with the latest AMD drivers (17.30-465504). Reader Zelda brought this advisory from AMD to my attention: it describes some serious issues with Ubuntu 16.04.3 and the latest (17.x) versions of AMD’s GPU drivers. Some of you have written in recently describing black screens […]
Bitcoin soars past $4000 to new all-time high
August 12th, 2017 CryptoBadger Bitcoin is currently trading at over $4,100 on Coinbase and most other major exchanges, after climbing nearly $500 over the past 24 hours. The current price represents a ~600% increase compared to just one year ago! The relatively uneventful hard fork on August 1st, combined with the recent consensus to lock in SegWit (which paves the […]
Coinbase reverses position; will support bitcoin cash after all
August 3rd, 2017 CryptoBadger Coinbase just published an update that details an apparent change of heart on bitcoin cash: they’re working on supporting it by the start of 2018. This means that if you have any bitcoin that you left in Coinbase’s hands during the hard fork a couple days ago, you’ll get your fair share of created bitcoin […]
