CC Freak, Author at Cryptocurrency Freak

The latest update from Sarang Noether is out and its full of interesting information on Bulletproofs, Multisig and discusses whether or not zk-SNARKs would benefit Monero. Read the entire post below or at the Monero forums.

Poloniex has just announced that all Legacy account holders will need to become verified at some point next year to be eligible to trade. Not really unexpected, considering it is a U.S. based company. Read the full statement below.

Coinbase fees can be high. If you withdraw your coins from Coinbase directly you will be charged a network transfer fee for your withdrawal. Currently, for Bitcoin, this can be a very high fee due to how congested the BTC network is. This guide will…

I was bored today and decided to try out the Compute Optimized c5.18xlarge EC2 Instance. Its not cheap, coming in at around $36 a day or so to run it. It is a monster though, with 72 cores total. Total hashrate over 15 minutes was…

Coinbase Adds Bitcoin Cash - Chaos Ensues

Written by CC Freak on December 19, 2017

As of about an hour ago, Bitcoin Cash went live on Coinbase. If you had Bitcoin in your Coinbase wallet on August 1, 2017 you finally have access to it.

100,000+ Pageviews! Thanks For The Support!

Written by CC Freak on December 19, 2017

Cryptocurrency Freak has hit a major milestone and has blown past 100,000 pageviews over the last 30 days. Its been fun helping others and talking about my passion. I look forward to 2018 and continuing this pretty incredibly journey into Cryptocurrencies. If you are interested…

Monero.how Sells For $43,600

Written by CC Freak on December 12, 2017

After a 14 day auction, Monero.how has sold for a whopping $43,600. The site is a gold mine of information for people who are just getting started with Monero. There was concern within the Monero subreddit that a malicious owner could get ahold of the…

Buy Windows 10 Pro Key For Only $31 USD

Written by CC Freak on December 9, 2017

I see so many people paying over $100 for a Windows 10 license for simply their mining rigs. This is way too much and there are better ways to get a key than dishing out over $100. Below I will write a quick guide on…

Video card drivers can be a pain in the ass with Windows. Especially when you are installing both AMD and Nvidia at the same time. Usually if I have crashes or errors pop up my first go to solution is to simply start fresh with…

When I first started mining I spent hours looking for the most optimal configuration files for xmr-stak-amd and xmr-stak-nvidia. It would have been nice to have a bit of a community built solely around sharing configuration examples. Today I have launched XMRStak.com with the hopes…