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Back a few weeks ago, I made a post on my blog announcing that I would be demoing and reviewing a set of new mining ASICs designed for SHA256 and Scrypt by an as-yet-unheard-of company called Turing Stations that suddenly popped onto the scene. I was skeptical at the time, as one...

Many of the so-called “Altcoins” that have followed in the footsteps of Bitcoin have differentiated themselves through the use of shorter block times. Bitcoin, which has historically used a block time of ten minutes, self-regulates the network to ensure that, on average, a new...