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Scrabble is finally OK with Bitcoin

A recent update of Merriam-Webster's "Official Scrabble Players Dictionary" includes 300 new words and now contains words like "emoji", "facepalm" and finally adds a widely used two-letter word that Scrabble fans have been waiting to use for decades: "OK".

This update shows that Scrabble is evolving alongside the English language. It also shows that cryptocurrencies are steadily becoming an important part of common people’s life as a word "bitcoin" is now also included in a dictionary of the worldwide popular game with a huge fan base, which gatherers tournaments all over the world.

Obviously, the modernization of Scrabble’s lexicon couldn’t happen without including the "Bitcoin" word. "Blockchain" and "cryptocurrency" are not the words for the future anymore as soon as cryptocurrencies increasingly affect the lives of ordinary people, being an integral part of the modern financial sector, IT and science.

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Crypto Opportunities for Developing Countries

One of the latest trends for cryptocurrency and blockchain developers is making projects aimed at so-called developing countries. Limited access to the traditional banking system makes these markets favourable for the further development of various blockchain projects, which could improve conditions of life for many people there.
Read the full article here:https://minergate.com/blog/crypto-opportunities-for-developing-countries/

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Dead coins: How to make profit on them?

Dead coins are an actual burden for the cryptocurrency community. Not only do they result in substantial losses for miners and traders but they also leave a mark of unstable and fraudulent nature on the whole blockchain industry. The blockchain developers are precisely the people to deal with such issues, so they already came up with several solutions for the problem.

Read the full article here:https://minergate.com/blog/dead-coins-how-to-make-profit-on-them/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=channel

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Smart Contracts in Blockchain Explained

Smart contracts is a feature that is mentioned in almost every blockchain-related discussion. Indeed, the technology turned out to be extremely handy for many influential institutions and is widely considered to be the future of day to day transactions. However, it still produces a certain amount of confusion. In this article, we will tell everything important about smart contracts.

Read the full article here: https://minergate.com/blog/smart-contracts-in-blockchain-explained/

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Summing up MinerGate’s project ‘I am a Miner’. Best stories. Part 1

MinerGate has recently started a new massive project “I am a miner” dedicated exclusively to MinerGate’s miners. The project is about to shed more light on the lives of miners all over the world, specifically on their environment, wishes, goals, and dreams. Unfortunately, it is often the case that these people who carry the weight of blockchain on their equipment’s “shoulders” are forgotten or even mistreated. Traders and cryptoanalysts love to put themselves in a public eye, getting more and more attention. “I am a miner” was created to stop this outrageous favoritism. Altogether, we’ll remind everybody that miners play the most essential part in the crypto community and that they should be heard and respected.
MinerGate collected some of the most touching and sincere stories and now you’ll see them yourselves.

Read the full article here: https://minergate.com/blog/summing-up-minergates-project-i-am-a-miner-best-stories-part-1/

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‘I am a miner’ project. Silver and bronze. Best stories. Part 2.

Dear miners,
This is the second post dedicated to our most valued crypto enthusiasts – miners. The ‘I am a miner’  project was created to drop the veil between them and the crypto world and reveal hidden insights about the miners’ environment, wishes, goals, and dreams.
Today, we are publishing two stories that won bronze and silver medals in our competition.

Read the full article here: https://minergate.com/blog/i-am-a-miner-2/

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Exclusive Interview with MinerGate CEO, Claude Lecomte: Complete Guide to Mining

In this exclusive interview, Mr. Lecomte shares his insights into the crypto mining, explaining industry’s key aspects and hidden pitfalls.

Read the full article here:https://www.coinspeaker.com/2018/10/09/exclusive-interview-with-minergate-ceo-claude-lecomte-complete-guide-to-mining/

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Open letter to the miners’ community by Claude Lecomte, MinerGate founder.

MinerGate announces the #iamaminer flashmob on Twitter. From October 15th we will ask you to make a tweet with our hashtags, and in two weeks our juries board, including representatives of large crypto companies and media, will award authors of the most creative tweets with $1,000 and $500 prizes.
On top of it – anyone who participates in #iamaminer flashmob will get exclusive bonuses from MinerGate.

Read the full article here:https://minergate.com/blog/open-letter-to-the-miners-community-by-claude-lecomte-minergate-founder/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_term=OpenLetter

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The winners of the ‘I am a miner’ project. The best of the best.

Today we are summing up the results of the ‘I am a miner’ contest. Many brilliant life stories have already been published in previous blog posts and now it’s time to announce the winners. There are two people who impressed the MinerGate team so much that we cannot wait to share it with the whole mining community.
Read the full article here:https://minergate.com/blog/open-letter-to-the-miners-community-by-claude-lecomte-minergate-founder/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_term=OpenLetter

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Welcome MinerGate BTC mining pool

Today MinerGate is pleased to announce the launch of its brand-new SHA-256-based pool for Bitcoin (BTC) mining. It is the first MinerGate’s public BTC mining pool, which opens new frontiers for listing SHA-256-based PoW cryptocurrencies.

Read the full article here:https://minergate.com/blog/welcome-minergate-btc-mining-pool/

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Introducing the jury of #iamaminer

Dear miners,
MinerGate’s #iamaminer flashmob is about to start, and while we are making the final preparations, we’d like to present you our dearest jury.

There are six people in #iamaminer jury council:

1. Claude Lecomte, CEO, and founder of MinerGate, a smart-mining multi-pool with more than 3.5M miners worldwide and 11+ cryptocurrencies available.
2. Alvyn Hagg, CEO, and founder of Freewallet, digital currency hosted wallet with 3M+ users and the third most popular online wallet for Android.
3. CoinSpeaker, MinerGate’s media partner. CoinSpeaker is a blockchain and crypto media outlet, providing news to the almost 500K audience.
4. Max Hasselhoff, a representative of Bytecoin, a private decentralized cryptocurrency with 500K holders.
5. Letsdancemusic, a dedicated miner and moderator of MinerGate Discord community. Recently Letsdancemusic took part in our poll ‘I am a miner’ and we were so amazed by his creativity that asked him to be the representative of the mining community for this flashmob.
6. King T, visionary, IT Guru, market analyst, and opinion leader.

We brought the representatives from multiple crypto parties together for our competition to be as fair and unbiased as it could be.
#iamaminer will start this Monday, October 15. Follow us on Twitter not to miss any news and updates.

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MinerGate is going to support Monero (XMR) hard fork

Dear miners,

MinerGate team is glad to inform you that we intend to support the upcoming hard fork of the Monero (XMR) network. Scheduled on the block height of 1685555, the approximate date of the network update is October 18, 2018.


There are three major changes in the Monero protocol:

1. A new form of range proofs, called Bulletproof, replacing old Borromean range proofs and significantly reducing both transactions size and fees (by approximately 80%);
2. A PoW tweak to be implemented to curb any potential threat of ASICs and further preserve ASIC resistance;
3. The minimum ring size of the ring signature is increased to 11 and will be static/fixed from now on.

The MinerGate team is ready to support these changes, like it was with the previous Monero (XMR) hard fork in April 2018. To continue mining XMR with MinerGate Monero mining pool on the newly updated blockchain, you will need to update your stable version of the mining software (not xFast Beta yet). The goal of our team is to provide users with a solid working solution to continue mining Monero after the fork, and the new XMR mining will be supported on the xFast versions soon.

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#iamaminer. Rules of the flashmob.

Our flashmob is dedicated to the miners, the people who scaffold the whole crypto industry. These days it seems the prevailing opinion regarding the mining industry is that the trader is king of the hill and the miner is just a kitchen boy. We want to show how wrong that is! Thousands of mining enthusiasts aren’t even concerned with profit, they do it out of a sincere belief in the technology and its usefulness to the world. MinerGate believes that these people are the unseen heroes of the crypto world and it is time for them to get their much deserved recognition.

Recently we took a poll, asking people about their mining experience, how they got started, and their aspirations. We’ve received several hundreds of emails in the first week, and this result inspired us to do a huge digital flashmob to let the miners around the world tell their stories.

Read the full article here: https://minergate.com/blog/iamaminer-rules-of-the-flashmob/

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Top-4 blockchain trends in 2018

For a long time blockchain was considered only to be a driving technology behind cryptocurrency. However, the modern approach to the blockchain is constantly widening for the last several years and covers more and more enterprise fields. Current blockchain development trends are some of the most promising for IT and FinTech industries that provide them with much attention from the major businesses.

The uniting characteristic of many modern IT development trends is that they are actively implementing new technological concepts on top of blockchain-based networks for modern corporate purposes. Due to the mentioned movement, blockchain becomes more and more popular among major businesses all over the world. However, constant growth of blockchain and cryptocurrency sector gathers not only the attention of business and entrepreneurs but also the attention of government authorities and remains under the pressure of becoming a target of the strict regulatory framework.
In this article, we will cover some of the most prominent trends that stand out in modern development movements of the blockchain industry.

Read the full article here: https://minergate.com/blog/top-4-blockchain-trends-in-2018/

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To mine or not to mine: how to react to new crypto coins

Firstly, please note that this post is not intended as financial advice and one should always try to do their own research before making any final decisions. Investing in Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (ICO’s) can be speculative, and the market is quite unregulated.

Read the full article here:https://minergate.com/blog/to-mine-or-not-to-mine-how-to-react-to-new-crypto-coins/

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Introducing the winners of the #iamaminer Flashmob Contest

As we previously announced, the #iamaminer flashmob contest came to a close on Friday, October 26th. We would like to once again thank everyone who participated. The results were impressive and we are proud to have helped miners share their stories with the world. Your tweets and memes have been insightful and funny and inspiring. We are as always, grateful for such a user base and such a deep and wide-ranging community.

Who won?
Read the full article here: https://minergate.com/blog/introducing-the-winners-of-the-iamaminer-flashmob-contest/

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MinerGate changes the supported Monero fork

For a long time, the MinerGate pool was supportive of the Monero Original cryptocurrency. However, the MinerGate team recently decided to move its support from Monero Original to Monero-Classic.

The Monero’s fork, that happened on April 6, 2018, and was intended to protect its ASIC-resistance, caused a large controversy amongst blockchain analysts, investors, and cryptocurrency developers. Some of them supported the decision, and some condemned it. However, the update happened and led to the establishment of the four new coins.

Read the whole article: https://minergate.com/blog/minergate-changes-the-supported-monero-fork/

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MinerGate is 4th in Top 100 Cryptocurrency Blogs And Websites For Crypto Investors in 2018

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MinerGate’s best mining solution – xFast Miner – is finally released

The MinerGate team is pleased to announce that MinerGate xFast Miner is now a default mining client of the pool.
To begin with, the miner has significantly increased the mining speed for each of the ten supported cryptocurrencies that can be mined with the app. However, our new solution is not only faster – but it has also undertaken the usability and user interface improvements. The new miner has both CLI and GUI version to provide you with a choice of the interface that is best suited for you. The update also aimed at expanding the hardware support, so the new version is now compatible with the majority of the utilized GPUs on the market. Overall, the xFast miner intends to become one of the most efficient and advantageous solutions on the market.

Read the whole article: https://minergate.com/blog/minergates-best-mining-solution-xfast-miner-is-finally-released/

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Attention, miners!

Beware of fake Telegram bots, that deluding people with falsely claiming that they provide our services. To be exact: @.minergate_mining_bitcoinbot and @.minergate_bitcoin_pool_bot. In fact, we have no Telegram bots, so we ask you to be cautious.

Stay safe!