Manufacturer Holds Cryptonight ASIC Firesale after Monero Hard Forks

Manufacturer Holds Cryptonight ASIC Firesale after Monero Hard Forks Josiah Wilmoth Mining hardware manufacturers have begun selling Cryptonight ASIC miners for next to nothing after privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero carried out its threat to adopt a hard fork to maintain ASIC resistance. Last week, Monero activated its semi-annual hard fork, an update that included an alteration to its instance of the Cryptonight Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus algorithm. This … Continued The post Manufacturer Holds Cryptonight ASIC Firesale after Monero Hard Forks appeared first on CCN cryptocoinsnews