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Digibyte’s upcoming hard fork this summer and how your GPU mining rig will benefit

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About two months ago, the Monero community was vexed in a war of words with Bitmain over the release of the Cryptonight –capable Antminer X3. The Antminer X3 had been designed to mine altcoins that use the Cryptonight hashing algorithm with Monero as the main mining target. As usual Bitmain (world’s biggest manufacturer of ASIC mining hardware) happily announced its release. However, in response, the Monero Blockchain was forked to maintain its ASIC resistance rendering all the new Atminer X3 obsolete.

The ongoing mining battles

Basically, there has always been a fight for control in the crypto mining world. Mining equipment manufacturers like Bitmain are currently able to control the crypto landscape as they wish since they equally control who gets what mining equipment, when and at what cost. The general feeling has been that the rich get richer while amassing more control over the Blockchains as eventual centralization of the networks is realized.

Considering the engineering cost of coming up with an ASIC miner, and the fact that ASIC miners are more powerful that GPU and CPU miners (that mostly belong to hobbyist), companies like Bitmain are able to niche down the manufacturing of ASIC miners and even set up their own mining operations with equipment at low production cost. It is this unfair advantage that leads to an uproar whenever a new ASIC mining machine is introduced into the market. To gain back control over the mining of a particular Blockchain, developers of Blockchains such as Monero decide to fork their networks and change the mining algorithms with every release of a new ASIC miner. Although it’s a short-term solution, it has so far worked for Monero.

Is Bitcoin decentralized enough?

Bitcoin, on the other hand, has had to deal with this issue since its inception. A cartel of miners has managed to actively sabotage the network’s decentralization with more powerful ASIC miners that give a group of individuals more control over the network. Obviously, Satoshi Nakamoto was unable to foresee this problem at the beginning. In fact, as the first ever Blockchain application, Bitcoin was designed to be mined only by CPUs so as to give each CPU a voice over the voting and decision made on the Blockchain. For Bitcoin, this capacity is long gone given the level of difficulty the network has reached.

How Digibyte’s upcoming hard fork will solve the problem

This is why Blockchains like Digibyte are planning to soon hard fork their Blockchain so as to change some of their mining algorithms in favor of GPUs. This is not only good news to those who own home mining rigs and are looking to mine DGB but also music to the ears of DGB holders as the network will maintain its decentralization.

As one of the fastest up and coming Blockchains, Digibyte boasts of having one of the most robust yet easy mining protocols in the crypto space. In fact, the Digibyte foundation came out strongly to protect the reputation of the Digibyte’s Blockchain network security after an altcoin’s 51% attack led to concerns over the security of altcoins. Currently, you can mine DGB with multiple mining algorithms, making it one of the most decentralized and secure Blockchain networks there is.

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XNO Token of Xeno NFT Hub listed on Bithumb Korea Exchange

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 25th January, 2021, // ChainWire //

Xeno Holdings Limited (xno.live ), a blockchain solutions company based in Hong Kong, has announced the listing of its ecosystem utility token XNO on the ‘Bithumb Korea’ cryptocurrency exchange on January 21st 2021.

Xeno NFT Hub (market.xno.live ), developed by Xeno Holdings, enables easy minting of digital items into NFTs while also providing a marketplace where anyone can securely trade NFTs.

The Xeno NFT Hub project team includes former members of the technology project Yosemite X based in San Francisco and professionals such as Gabby Dizon who is a games industry expert and NFT space influencer based in Southeast Asia.

NFT(Non-Fungible Token) technology has recently gained huge focus in the blockchain arena and beyond, making waves in the online gaming sector, the art world, and the digital copyrights industry in recent years. The strongest feature of NFTs is that “NFTs are unique digital assets that cannot be replaced or forged”. Unlike fungible tokens such as Bitcoin or Ether, NFTs are not interchangeable for other tokens of the same type but instead each NFT has a unique value and specific information that cannot be replaced. This fact makes NFTs the perfect solution to record and prove ownership of digital and real-world items like works of art, game items, limited-edition collectibles, and more. One of the ways to have a successful…

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Should Crypto Projects Devote Resources to Community Growth and Marketing?

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2020 has been an incredible year for crypto as investors have generated windfall profits and crypto projects have seen their businesses gain the spotlight they’ve been looking for.  While Bitcoin has received most of the attention after major institutional investors announced they were accumulating the increasingly scarce asset, many altcoins have also seen their fair share of glory.  When looking at all the big winners of the past year, the first project that probably comes to mind is Chainlink, having appreciated by more than 550% YTD and now valued at over $4.5 billion.  But, the actual biggest winner of the year is HEX with a YTD return of over 5,000%.

I mention both of the above projects as they have each taken slightly different paths to achieve greatness.  Chainlink has devoted resources toward building a fundamentally sound business with many strategic partnerships while HEX has spent vast sums of money on marketing and promotion.  Both approaches are valid, but one thing is certain, it is absolutely imperative for crypto projects to let the crypto community know what makes them special.  Of course, one of the reasons that makes crypto so valuable is the powerful blockchain technology that most projects are utilizing.

Cryptocurrency vs. Blockchain Technology

It’s important to make a distinction between blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.  Although they are often used interchangeably, they are different.  Blockchain technology and crypto were both created after the 2008 financial crisis, but cryptocurrency…

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XENO starts VIP NFT trading service and collaborates with contemporary artist Hiro Yamagata

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 24th December, 2020, // ChainWire //

The XENO NFT Hub (https://xno.live) will provide a crypto-powered digital items and collectables trading platform allowing users to create, buy, and sell NFTs. Additionally it will support auction based listings, governance and voting mechanisms, trade history tracking, user rating and other advanced features.

As a first step towards its fully comprehensive service, XENO NFT Hub launched a recent VIP service to select users and early adopters in December 2020 with plans for a full Public Beta to open in June 2021. 

“NFTs are extremely flexible in their usage, from digital event tickets to artwork, and while NFTs have a very wide spectrum of uses and categories XENO will initially focus its partnership efforts and its own item curation on three primary areas: gaming, sports & entertainment, and collectibles.”, said XENO NFT Hub president Anthony Di Franco.

He also added “This does not mean we will prohibit other types of NFTs from our ecosystem However, it simply means that XENO’s efforts as a company will be targeted into these verticals initially as a cohesive business approach.”

Development and Procurement Lead, Gabby Dizon explained, “Despite our initial focus, we found ourselves with a unique opportunity to host some of the works of Mr. Hiro Yamagata. We are collaborating with Japanese artist Hiro Yamagata to enshrine some of his artwork into NFTs.”

Mr. Yamagata has…

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