Cryptomining

Ethereum core developer Preston Van Loon expects Ethereum's The Merge event to occur in August, locking GPU mining out of the ecosystem - and potentially saving next-gen GPU launches.

LHRv3 GPUs couldn't make use of the 100% LHR unlock for ETH mining released earlier this month. However, it is hard to grumble now, with a stable 90% hash-rate solution.

As well as shadowing the latest BTC decline, Ethereum is facing inflationary pressure, and has some problems courtesy of the Bored Ape Yacht Club.

BTC is 30% down in 2022 do far, and 50% down from its record high in Q3 2021. Analysts see a resistance line at $30,000 and if you have BTC investments you will want that line to hold.

Intel's announcmeent of its Blockscale ASICS for cryptocurrency mining promise sustainable, power-efficient circuits for the blockchain market, with no impact on semiconductor availability.

ASRock purportedly worked closely with AMD on this server design and it can achieve 610 MH/s. However, it costs $14,800 as the ETH blockchain transition away from GPU mining looms.

Intel's blockchain strategy is winning big client contracts.

Widening the market appeal of Intel's FPGAs toward the broader blockchain market.

South American hacking group Lapsus$ is giving Nvidia until Friday to meet its demands.

But they also request that Nvidia remove the mining performance limiter itself.