Archive for January, 2018

Linux Meltdown/Spectre patch destroys mining hashrates, here is the fix

If you rebooted your linux-based mining rig at some point in the last couple days, you may have noticed that your mining hashrate was drastically lower after your system restarted. What happened? Turns out a kernal update designed to patch the Meltdown & Spectre vulnerabilities present in Intel CPUs was deployed on January 9th, and […]

New year, new cryptocurrency predictions

Happy (belated) New Year! I intended to get this post up earlier, but I’ve been under the weather lately. Now that we’re about a week into 2018, it’s probably a good time to talk about what’s in store for cryptocurrency as this decade winds down. I see daily questions from readers about my opinions on what […]