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1TB Free Cloud Storage from Storj Labs for Everyone Fighting COVID-19

24, Apr 2020

Storj Labs have announced their COVID-19 Storage Program intended to provide free could storage to everyone currently engaged in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Storj Labs provides a crypto token powered service for users that get paid to share their unused disk space thus forming the decentralized Storj Network securely storing encrypted data from Tardigrade cloud storage users at a lower cost compared to other commercial alternatives like AWS, Google Could etc.

The last things people on the frontlines of COVID-19 research should have to worry about are cloud storage and egress costs, or data security, privacy, and availability. So, if you or your organization are working to fight the global coronavirus pandemic at the moment, Storj will provide you with 1TB of free cloud storage and bandwidth per month on their Tardigrade decentralized cloud storage platform for one year. They are also committed to providing 5 PB of data and storage toward COVID-19 research, and are open to considering requests beyond the standard 1TB offer as well should you require more.

Organizations like local governments, schools, healthcare providers, and health products like high quality edibles from Exhalewell.com, nonprofits, and other teams associated with COVID-19 relief efforts can qualify. You can also look into the site https://www.numan.com/hair-loss/minoxidil and take the help of health experts and experienced clinicians for quality treatments. If you want to see if you qualify, simply head over to the dedicated COVID-19 Storage Program page to sign up.

– To register and apply for the COVID-19 Storage Program and get 1TB free cloud storage from Storj Labs…

Upcoming Popular Crypto Coins Halvings This Year

14, Apr 2020

Everybody is waiting for the most important Bitcoin (BTC) halving that is happening in a bit less than a month from now, but this is not the only popular crypto coin that is going to have its halving this year (4000 blocks remaining), tough without a doubt the most anticipated one for sure. Bitcoin started at 50 BTC per block, then the first halving after 4 years reduced it to 25 coins, the second halving in another four years further reduced it to 12.5 BTC (the current block reward) and the upcoming next one will reduce he reward in half once more to 6.25 BTC per block. F2Pool has a list of upcoming halvings for this year with interesting information about the coins listed that you might want to check out if interested and below you can find a bit more information about what other popular crypto coins will have their halvings by the end of the year.

In just 12 days the closest upcoming halving or more specifically block reward reduction is for DASH where the current block reward of 1.55 DASH will be reduced to 1.43933 DASH after about 7100 more blocks expected to happen near the end of this month. In 18 days there will be a halving of PascalCoin (PASC) from 50.0 PASC down to 25 PASC per block, then there is Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) halving in about 107 days with block reward dropping from the current 125 BCD to 62.5 BCD. ZelCash (ZEL) will follow next in about 110 days with block reward going down from the current 112.5 ZEL to 56.25 ZEL, then Monacoin (MONA) will also half from 25 MONA to 12.5 MONA in about 139 days. Zcoin (XZC) also has a halving this year in 161 days with block reward going down from 14 XZC to 7 XZC, Callisto (CLO) will half in 182 days, then Zcash (ZEC) halves in 216 days and then in 229 days Horizen (ZEN).

– For more information about F2Pool’s listing of Upcoming Halvings of popular crypto coins…

Upcoming 4GB AMD Radeon RX 4×0/5×0 GPUs and ETC Mining Issues Under Windows

6, Apr 2020

GPU miners currently mining Ethereum Classic (ETC) on AMD Radeon RX 470/480 and 570/580 GPUs under Windows might start getting a weird low performance on their first mining video card while other GPUS seem to be performing as usual. The reason for that is pretty simple even though we are still far from the 4GB DAG limit, with current ETC #337 DAG Epoch supposed to take 3.63 GB according to Claymore’s miner… the first GPU uses more video memory as it needs to display the operating system GUI, unlike the rest that are just mining. As a result when using Windows the first GPU takes something like 140-150 MB more video memory on top of the other ones that are just mining, so with that the actually used video memory gets closer to the 4GB limit and instead of 20-30 MH/s you might be getting just 1-2 MH/s for the first GPU and soon it might even stop working.

Normally the rest of the GPUs should take around 3745 MB video memory at the moment according to GPU-Z while the first one about 3890 MB/s and after a bit of mining that number may increase a bit apparently. 8GB RX GPUs do take up a little bit more video memory at the moment apparently, but for them it is not a problem at all, they have more than enough video memory for the moment. What you can do to resolve the problem if you do not with to switch to Linux mining? Well, if your CPU has a built-in GPU and the motherboard can properly use it along with 6-8 or more mining GPUs you can try enabling it and using it as a main video card for Windows and thus free more resources and extend the time you have available for mining Ethereum Classic problem-free. Switching to Lunix-based OS such as Hive OS for instance might also help extending the live of your ETC mining rig with 4GB AMD RX GPUs as Linux generally takes up less resources than Windows.

For the moment Ethereum Classic (ETC) is still leading over Ethereum (ETH) with about 10 DAG Epochs, so the same problem will appear for 4GB mining GPUs that are mining ETH pretty soon as well. For now reduced performance for the first GPU only, or it stopping to mine at all, but not too long after that the 4GB limit would be problematic for all of the video cards with 4GB VRAM as the the DAG size continues to grow. Bitmain has recently addressed a similar issue with their Antminer E3 miners by releasing an updated firmware to free up a bit more memory as these miners also have just 4GB usable memory and thus extend their life for a couple more months for ETC and ETH mining at least.


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