What Are Online “Whales?”
A whale isn’t only the largest animal in the ocean. We’ll explain what online whales are and why they spend so much money on the internet.
What Does “HODL” Mean?
You’re scrolling through social media, and you encounter someone saying that they’re “HODLING” or telling someone else to “HODL.” Confused? Here’s what the word means in the world of cryptocurrency and finance—and why it’s …
What Is a “Lite Hash Rate” or “LHR” GPU?
Forget about software. In 2021, it’s cryptocurrencies that are eating the world. Thanks to miners looking to strike it rich in cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and Dogecoin, prices are sky-high in the consumer market for graph…
Why Is It So Hard to Buy a Graphics Card in 2021?
A global shortage of graphics cards is making it difficult for consumers to get their hands on them at a fair price. Here’s why it feels impossible to buy a graphics card in 2021.
What Are NFTs? Meet Crypto’s Digital Collectibles
NFTs are the hot new thing in the blockchain and cryptocurrency world. Think of an NFT like a digital collector’s item. It’s a unique digital object, and NFTs are exploding in popularity. But what is an NFT?…
How to See How Much Money Has Been Sent to a Bitcoin Address
Your identity may be private when you use Bitcoin, but an account’s transactions aren’t. If you know someone’s Bitcoin address—the same number you’d use to send money to them—you can look up their transaction history and …
Don’t Fall For the New CryptoBlackmail Scam: Here’s How to Protect Yourself
Here’s how a CryptoBlackmail scam starts: A criminal contacts you over email or snail mail and insists they have evidence you cheated on your wife, there’s an assassin after you, or there’s a webcam video of you watching porn…
What Is Cryptojacking, and How Can You Protect Yourself?
Cryptojacking is the hot new way for criminals to make money using your hardware. A website you have open in your browser can max out your CPU to mine cryptocurrency, and cryptojacking malware is becoming increasingly common….
What the &#%$ is a CryptoKitty?
The most expensive CryptoKitty ever purchased sold for $110,707 to a willing buyer. People have spent over $24 million on CryptoKitties, and the project has received $12 million in venture capital funding. But what exactly is…
What is Ethereum, and What Are Smart Contracts?
Ethereum is a decentralized computing platform. It generates a crytocurrency token known as Ether. Programmers can write “smart contracts” on the Ethereum blockchain, and these contracts are automatically executed according t…
What’s the Difference Between Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, and Others?
Despite their names, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Diamond, Bitcoin Private, and others are not the same thing as Bitcoin. They’re based on Bitcoin, and are piggybacking on its name, but they’re different things. Here’s…
Why It’s Nearly Impossible to Make Money Mining Bitcoin
In Bitcoin’s early days, you could easily mine the cryptocurrency on your own PC. But now you need cheap electricity and a serious investment in specialized hardware to have any hope of making money.
What’s the Difference Between a Bitcoin Wallet and an Exchange?
A Bitcoin wallet is basically a software program in which you store Bitcoin. An exchange lets you convert “real money” like US dollars to Bitcoin. Exchanges also provide a wallet—but you don’t necessarily have full control …
How to Buy Bitcoin the Easy Way
Rise or fall, people just can’t stop talking about Bitcoin. Let’s be clear: We’re not recommending you purchase Bitcoin. But, if you have your heart set on it, here’s how to do it easily—without getting scammed….
Can You Really Make Money Mining Bitcoin With Your Gaming PC?
People mining cryptocurrency have driven up the price of GPUs. So, if you’re a gamer and you already have a powerful GPU in your gaming PC, can you really make some extra cash mining cryptocurrency (like Bitcoin) with your PC…
What Are Altcoins, and Why Do They Exist?
Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency out there, and it’s still the biggest—for now, at least. But, as we’ve explained before, Bitcoin has a lot of problems as a currency. The term “altcoin” refers to any other cryptocurrenc…
Thanks to Bitcoin, Buying a PC Is Better Than Building One (for Now)
High-end graphics cards are in super high demand right now. Not because of a sudden bloom of PC gamers, but because they’re the most efficient way of adding number-crunching power to cryptocurrency mining “rigs.” This makes …
What Is a “Blockchain”?
If you’ve been watching the news lately, you might have heard about something called a blockchain. It’s a concept that makes data ultra-secure for specific uses. You’ve probably heard it in connection with Bitcoin, but it has…
Bitcoin Is Not a Currency, It’s an (Unsafe) Investment
If the creators of Bitcoin wanted it to act like a currency, they sure made a lot of weird decisions. Bitcoin doesn’t function well as a currency, for reasons that are inherent to its design. It’s an investment people are spe…
What Is Bitcoin, and How Does it Work?
Bitcoin, the digital currency, has been all over the news for years. But because it’s entirely digital and doesn’t necessarily correspond to any existing fiat currency, it’s not easy to understand for the newcomer. Let’s brea…
How to Block Cryptocurrency Miners in Your Web Browser
Cryptocurrency miners are a new scourge on the web. Web pages can now embed JavaScript code that runs in your web browser to mine themselves Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies using your computer. The website keeps the crypto…
What Is Bitcoin, the Virtual Digital Currency?
Bitcoin is a virtual currency that employs some very interesting principles. Here’s the skinny on what exactly it is and how the fascinating technology behind it works.
How to Protect Yourself from Ransomware (Like CryptoLocker and Others)
Ransomware is a type of malware that tries to extort money from you. There are many variants, starting with CryptoLocker, CryptoWall, TeslaWall, and many others. They hold your files hostage and hold them for ransom for hundr…
How Does Shopping With Bitcoin Work?
Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that pretty much everyone you meet is going to have one opinion or another on the topic of Bitcoin. The digital, decentralized, encrypticized currency that only exists on the Internet an…
Cryptocurrency Miners Explained: Why You Really Don’t Want This Junk on Your PC
uTorrent recently made headlines for bundling cryptocurrency-mining junkware. Out of all the junkware programs bundled with installers, cryptocurrency-miners like Epic Scale are some of the worst.
