Since resuming my role here at Forbes, I've been sucked back in to the exciting and often mysterious world of cryptocurrency mining. It requires a generous amount of research and patience, but it can ...

United Kingdom-based digital payments firm Electroneum has announced the launch of a smartphone that is capable of mining cryptocurrency, according to a press release published on Feb. 25. The new ...

Blockchain startup Electroneum has just launched a dirt-cheap Android smartphone that rewards users in cryptocurrency. Announcing the news on Monday, the firm said its new M1 is a Google Mobile ...

Traditional cryptocurrency mining, as exemplified by Bitcoin, relies on the PoW consensus algorithm. Miners compete to solve cryptographic puzzles, and the first one to find the solution gets the ...

When you think of a cryptocurrency mining rig, it’s easy to associate it with large rigs featuring multiple GPUs in some type of air-cooled room. While that may be true, not every cryptocurrency needs ...

Hackers are using a previously discovered - and patched - IIS 6.0 vulnerability to take control of Windows servers and mine the Electroneum cryptocurrency. First identified by two researchers in China ...

However, system operators using such old software might neglect to keep it up to date in the first place. It’s rather interesting that these hackers in particular choose to mine Electroneum instead of ...