Facebook has revealed their plans for a new cryptocurrency that represent the first big effort in making the concept a true global currency.

In an abrupt decision made last week, the maintainers of the Coinhive project and the project’s owners have announced that they will be ceasing operations and pulling the plug on their browser-based mining services this month. With the waning popularity of crypto mining in the browser and the enormous drops in the value of Monero from its height of $425 …

It’s not exactly surprising to see Bitcoin drop as the fad slowly dies out, but what is fascinating is how this plunge has affected graphics card manufacturer Nvidia.

Many rightfully criticised Valve for opening Steam’s floodgates, with the worry that the already overflowing marketplace would succumb to a deluge of rubbish. It’s ended up worse than that. There’s now a game on the Steam that isn’t just a bunch of memes and asset flips being sold, but is also a crypto-miner.

Robot Cache is attempting to go head-to-head with Steam by offering something no digital distribution platform does yet: a way for users to sell digital games, and developers benefit from it.

The easiest way to mine Bitcoin just became severely compromised, as mining pool Nicehash confirms a theft of over 4700 Bitcoin.

Despite adding support for it last year, Steam is pulling the plug on Bitcoin payments due to high volatility and rising transaction fees.

Earlier this year, we told you that a few dodgy sites were surreptitiously running cryptocurrency miners in the background. Now some dodgy sites are making it so they continue to mine from your PC, even after you’ve closed your browser