Fun with coins #3 - Russian nuclear super-miner & Charlie Lee denies LTC hardfork
Today´s highlights: Russian nuclear supercomputer miner & Charly Lee denies LTC hardfork, the public is clueless based on media.
Another issue of Fun with Coins serious posts dominated the news today. Still, I have been able to find two interesting articles for you.
Today´s stories:
Russian guy used a nuclear supercomputer to mine cryptocurrency!
How crazy is that? In a top-secret facility, somebody reprogrammed the machine to mine Bitcoin. It seems that payment might not have been too attractive.
I wonder what Hashrate that thing must have! We will probably never know. 1000 TH/s? What´s your guess?
Mainstream media is confusing the public over cryptocurrency, fake news alert?
Sometimes it is better to say or write nothing, just be quiet, keep your hands on something you know well. Mainstream journalists have started to focus on the crypto hype and are trying hard to find the best story.
There are many cases where significant parts of articles are incorrect and not thoroughly researched.
If those authors were cryptocurrency experts, they were most likely trading themselves not leaving too much time to write.
Miss-information happens very often these days. Just yesterday CNN reported a new Litecoin hard fork is imminent. This article was already starting a small gold rush. Being asked the question, Charlie Lee clarified:
For more examples read the original article:
https://news.bitcoin.com/thanks-mainstream-media-public-clueless-cryptocurrency/
That´s it for today; I hope you enjoyed reading. Much appreciate your upvote and feel free to follow me for more updates.
On my way to find the next stories for you, hopefully, I will see some more curious news tomorrow!
ByeBye and remember to have fun with coins!