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QuadrigaCX foils our Bitcoin plans

If anyone was paying attention back in 2017, we were victims of the hack at Nicehash. Ironically we started to use QuadrigaCX, reassured with their volume and use of cold wallets. The very thing that has now caused us to lose all of our Bitcoin investments. To be fair, we learned a lot from all…

Server room and server temperatures

Server rooms should be kept dust free and at no more than 20c / 68f. We mentioned server before and still get some interesting questions regarding what makes a great room to house your equipment. Some are questioning why we bother to mention servers and climate controlled rooms now that many of us are using…

Intel tells companies to stop installing patch for security flaw

We reported a while back about Meltdown and Spectre, the two flaws potentially affected most chips used in computers going back as far as 20 years. We further advised to hold off on the patches and fixes until it became clear as to how taxing they were going to be. As it turns out, a fair number…

How to counter the Meltdown and specter security flaws

Unless you have been avoiding all news lately, you have no doubt seen or heard countless reports on two security flaws discovered in Intel, AMD and Arm processors. These, combined, affect pretty much everything built in the last 15 years or so. Without going into all the details, reports appear to indicate that the only…

Nice Hash Security Breach Details – December 17, 2017

Here is the latest information about the breach directly from the Nicehash web site. The security breach: what happened? As has been widely reported, NiceHash’s security system was breached in a sophisticated attack in the early morning of 6 December. Our payment system was compromised and the entire contents of the NiceHash bitcoin wallet were…

NiceHash gets hacked. $66M USD reported stolen. Latest

As some of you may know we are hard at work on Bitcoin-related projects. We were affected by the NiceHash Mining theft. Here are the answers to some common questions about the incident. What was stolen? Their Bitcoin wallet. All of it.