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Ethereum Miners Raked in Nearly $300 Million Last Month as Hashrate Breaks New Highs

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Can you imagine the speed required to make 250 trillion attempts to solve a puzzle in one second? Stop imagining! We already have the answer figured out for you!

On 6th October 2020, the Ethereum-mining hash rate made a new record by reaching a figure of 250 trillione hashes per second. Ether miners are more active than ever before, and the Ethereum network is now more powerful than ever before.

To your surprise, Ethereum is not a mineral found in the mountains. Miners have made $300 million without even stepping outside their homes. Without confusing you any further, let me explain how ETH mining can make you a millionaire.

What is Ethereum?

It is a platform that makes use of a blockchain database to allow developers to create applications on it. The apps that are built on Ethereum are decentralized; Any computer that connects to the Ethereum network can access these apps. You can make online payments, trade cryptocurrency, and sell products without the involvement of third parties like banks.

Ether (ETH) is Ethereum’s cryptocurrency that has $40 billion worth of market capitalization in 2020.

What is Hashrate?

It indicates the overall health or power of the Ethereum network. The combined computing power of all the mining machines is directly proportional to the hash rate; When power increases, the hash rate goes up. This means that the miners play a vital role in strengthening the cryptocurrency network.

Initially, low-power machines were used, but as the popularity of the network grew, more users jumped in, and more powerful mining rigs were introduced. This caused the hash rate to reach trillion hashes per second and enhanced the network’s security.

What is the hype all about? How are the hash rate and mining rigs related to money? Let us find out!

What are the Mining Rigs?

People spend thousands of dollars on building powerful mining rigs that can generate more ETH in less time.

Mining rigs are basically computers with an extremely powerful graphics processing unit. Application-Specific Integrated Circuits have now been introduced for mining purposes. Mining is not an easy task, so it requires a lot of energy in the form of electricity.

The main reason behind using GPUs and ASIC instead of simple CPUs is to lower energy consumption.

Components of a Mining Rig

  1. Power Supply Unit

The capacity of the supply unit (in watts) must be greater than the total power consumption of all the units of your rig. If you have 4 GPUs that consume a total of 800 watts and other units consume 200 watts, a supply unit of at least 1000 watts is needed for the smooth working of the rig.

  1. Hard Drive

Your SSD requirement depends on the operating system of your rig. A 120 GB hard drive is required for mining rigs that run windows. For Linux users, 60 GB SSD would get the job done.

  1. Motherboard

The number of PCIe slot connectors in a motherboard corresponds to the number of GPUs that can be installed. ASRock H110 Pro BTC+, Asus B250 Mining Expert, and Gigabyte GA-H110-D3A are some of the best motherboards for mining. The average cost of these motherboards is around £110.

  1. RAM

Your rig’s processing speed depends on the size of its RAM. At least 4GB RAM is required for fast calculations.

  1. GPU

GPUs are the actual driving force in a rig, so make sure that you have plenty of them. GeForce GTX 1060, RTX 2080 Ti, and RX Vega 56 are some of the most popular graphics cards on the market.

Let me link all the dots here!

The Role of Mining Rigs

A powerful mining rig can make more attempts at solving puzzles in one second. More attempts mean that there are high chances of working out the right answer. When the right answer is generated, a new block is added to the chain, and the miner gets ETH as a reward. It would not be wrong to say that ETH is sitting in the coaxial cables of your rig.

How Ethereum Mining Generates Money?

Mining is not just about solving the mathematical puzzle but being the first miner to discover or guess the solution is a must for earning a reward. Millions of people are working on the same puzzle at one time, so the processing speed of your rig determines your success rate.

Today, one ETH is worth $467. An ETH miner makes money by processing transactions for the application users on the Ethereum network. ETH is a miner’s reward for solving the complex puzzle. When the miner has processed a certain number of transactions, he/she is rewarded with ETH.

Ethereum serves as the platform for the buying and selling of ETH. Miners’ task is to verify and secure transactions resulting from trading on which they also earn a transaction fee.

One important point to note here is that when the hash rate goes up, the difficulty level of the puzzle also increases to balance it out.

Is Mining Profitable?

Eth miners working with powerful graphics cards can make $15 in 24 hours, which is much higher than the profit in Bitcoin.

High profits do not come solely from ETH mining, but from the transaction fee, which is the main attraction.

The transaction fee in the Ethereum network rose to $11.61 in September 2020, producing millions of dollars in profits. Experts suggest that Ethereum is a good investment as Ether’s price is expected to grow over $2000 by the end of 2025.

Summing It Up!

Cryptocurrency is on the rise these days, and according to the experts, it is the future of online trading. Although there are security issues like double spending and 51% attacks, Ethereum and Bitcoin continue to attract investors.

If you have some extra cash lying in your bank, my advice would be to invest it in buying cryptocurrency. You do not need to go big at this point! Start with 1 token and just analyze its value in the market.

Where do you see the price of 1 Ether going in 2030?

Author Bio:
Myrah Abrar is a computer science graduate with a passion for web development and digital marketing.

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Welcome to the Universal Wallet, DAI Stablecoin.

If you thought about holding or exchanging DAI Stablecoin, now you can do so directly with your HolyTransaction Universal Wallet.

It’s now possible to add DAI wallet to your dashboard and use it to access and exchange 24 different crypto, instantly. This is just one of the many recent adoptions, which brought the number of cryptocurrencies accepted on our platform to 24.

Now you are free to store DAI on HolyTransaction, transfer them to any other wallet, and make crypto-to-crypto transfers from and to DAI. All HolyTransaction customers can create a new address for their own DAI Wallet.

DAI Wallet features
Just like Bitcoin and all the other 23 digital currencies supported, you can now:

• Send DAI to any address, even to addresses of other crypto, with instant conversion on the fly;
• Receive transactions;
• Exchange DAI with any supported coins;
• Make instant transactions between HT users;
• Get real time exchange rates on the website;
• Set OTP for additional protection.

If you are not able to see your newest DAI Wallet, you just need to click on the “plus” button on the top right of the balance page, once you successfully login into your own wallet.

About DAI:

DAI is a cryptocurrency that is price stabilized against the value of the U.S. Dollar. DAI is created by the Dai Stablecoin System, a decentralized platform that runs on the Ethereum blockchain.

With DAI, anyone, anywhere has the freedom to choose a money they can place their confidence in. A money that maintains its purchasing power.

MKR holders govern Dai

Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain seeking to minimise the price volatility of its own stable token — the DAI — against the U.S. Dollar.

Maker smart contract platform controls and sells Dai. Indeed, decentralised and trustless, the Maker platform stabilises the value of Dai to one U.S. dollar using external market mechanisms and economic incentives. 

Eliminating the necessity to trust a centralised organisation and the hassle of third-party audits, Maker offers a transparent stablecoin system that is fully inspectable on the Ethereum blockchain.  

Maker’s Dual Coin System

The Maker Platform has two coins: Maker (MKR) and Dai (DAI).

Maker – A token with a volatile price that is used to govern the Maker Platform. Maker DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization within the Ethereum blockchain. Maker works to minimise the volatility of DAI, its stable token, compared to the U.S. dollar, with holders of MKR tokens governing DAI.

DAI – A price stable coin that is suitable for payments, savings, or collateral. With DAI, the team at MKR hopes to overcome the extremely volatile prices of cryptocurrency. The team at Maker DAO feels that stablecoins are necessary to let blockchain technology reach its full potential. Because of this, it introduced DAI, which is backed by ETH collateral.

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Ether Price passes $100: how to store Ethereum

Ether price, or the digital currency that fuels the world’s second-greatest blockchain network – Ethereum – reached a value of $100 today.

This means that Ether price hits its new all-time high today.

With a growth of more than 25% over one day only, the Ether price has now increased more than 1,000% during the last year: on January 1st, in fact, it was trading at about $8.

At the moment, while I’m writing this article, the digital currency has a market cap of about $9bn, according to data provided by Coinmarketcap.

Why Ether price is growing

This new all time high comes now when the Ethereum blockchain is fast gaining interest by open-source innovators and financial firms worldwide.

Ethereum became important as the main blockchain used for initial coin offerings (ICO, a process by which people working on blockchain-related projects can sell tokens with the goal of raising funding), while major companies such as JP Morgan and Bank of America are developing a few projects on private versions of the Ethereum blockchain.

On the markets point of view, the development comes also thanks to a strong and continued demand for the Ethereum token.

Ether volume registered 20% of the total digital currency market volumes, below bitcoin (46%) and ahead of litecoin (11.38%).

How to store, buy and sell Ethereum

While the digital currency is gaining more and more interest, reaching new all time highs, you may ask yourself: “How should I buy, sell and store my Ether tokens?”

Well, HolyTransaction provides a safe place where you can store, buy and sell your Ether tokens in a user-friendly platform.

You can exchange Ethereum in a few minutes by using more than 10 digital currencies we support on our HolyTransaction multicurrency wallet.

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Ethereum exchange is now available on HolyTransaction

From now on you can exchange Ethereum for the supported digital currencies in HolyTransaction.

What is Ethereum?

At its simplest, Ethereum is an open software platform based on blockchain technology that enables developers to build and deploy decentralized applications.

Ether was already available on our wallet, but now you can also buy and sell it through 10 more coins we support.

At press time, Ether value is $87.

Exchange Ethereum with 14 cryptocurrencies

Just like Bitcoin, this means that you can now:

  • Send Ethereum to any address of other cryptocurrencies with instant conversion on the fly;
  • Receive transactions;
  • Exchange Ethereum with any supported coins;
  • Make instant transactions between HT users;
  • Get real time exchange rates on the website;
  • Set OTP for additional protection.

Is Ethereum similar to Bitcoin? Well, sort of, but not really.

Like Bitcoin, Ethereum is a distributed public blockchain network. Although there are some significant technical differences between the two, the most important distinction to note is that Bitcoin and Ethereum differ substantially in purpose and capability. Bitcoin offers one particular application of blockchain technology, a peer to peer electronic cash system that enables online Bitcoin payments. While the Bitcoin blockchain is used to track ownership of digital currency (bitcoins), the Ethereum blockchain focuses on running the programming code of any decentralized application.

In the Ethereum blockchain, instead of mining for bitcoin, miners work to earn Ether, a type of crypto token that fuels the network. Beyond a tradeable cryptocurrency, Ether is also used by application developers to pay for transaction fees and services on the Ethereum network.

So, what are you waiting for?

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