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Gayle Trent  authors two cozy mystery series, one for Bell Bridge Books and one for NAL. Her latest book is Dead Pan , the second book in the Daphne Martin Cake Decorating Mystery Series. In Dead Pan, several people become sick at Brea Ridge Pharmaceuticals’ annual holiday party for its employees, and one–Fred Duncan–dies. Fred’s mother insists on Daphne’s help in learning why Fred died; and since none of the food has yet been exonorated, Daphne feels compelled to find out what made everyone so ill. She’s pretty sure it wasn’t her cake, but she can’t be certain until the police complete the lab results. Was this an accident? Or did someone set out to kill Fred? Hmm…sounds like just the thing to read on a cold winter’s night, doesn’t it?! Want to win a copy? Read on… Have you got a writer on your gift list? If you have (even if that writer is YOU), and you don’t have a clue as to what gift to buy, I’m here to help. Let’s start with the simple thi...

We have discussed how expensive and power consuming are GPUs and ASICs in our last point. Affording those thousand dollars giant mining rigs and expensive electricity is surely not in everyone’s capacity. There are only three strong winners in the cryptocurrency world: The Creators of the cryptocurrency who mine a million coins using just a home PC because due to no competition, the mining difficulty is negligible. The Rich who can afford expensive GPUs and ASICs to create gigantic mining rigs and who can afford to pay electricity bills as high as $1 million a month! The Criminals who know how to steal electricity or hijack computational power. 2.24 2.23 2.22 2.21 2.20 2.19 2.18 2.17 2.16 2.15 2.14 2.13 2.12 2.11 2.10 2.9 2.8 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 The example of ordinary bitcoin users who do mining (having no significant GPUs or ASICs) by participating in mining pool websites (users combine their hash rates to mine as a network) is that of an “Ant...