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joshuajacksonlyblog · 5 years

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Slush Pool Operator Braiins Set to Rollout Upgrades

Braiins, a cryptocurrency mining pool operator based in Prague, is rebranding its company’s operation and bringing all of its products under a single umbrella.

Updates Are Coming

Braiins is the company behind Slush Pool, the original cryptocurrency mining pool with a hash rate of 5.32 Eh/s, per its website. After operating in the mining sector for some years, it appears to be set for a brand makeover and it's pushing out some upgrades for its popular products — Slush Pool and Braiins OS.

According to Braiins Creative Director Luboš Buračinský, Slush Pool customers should expect upgrades on the payout processes and the inclusion of more tokens.

“For Slush Pool, we are about to release a completely reworked payout section,” he told Bitcoin Magazine. “The new features allow for much more in terms of payouts settings when it comes to frequency, destination, payout conditions, etc. Furthermore, we will add support for more coins. And of course, we continually keep adding tweaks to the product UX.”

Braiins OS, on the other hand, will include a feature that allows users to install it from a memory card onto a flash memory.

Braiins launched Braiins OS in 2008. At the time, Jan Čapek, the company’s CEO, was driven by the need to create an open-source alternative to the closed-source mining firmware being used with Slush Pool. The initial release was targeted at mining devices only, but it has evolved since then.

“Retail miners should find this especially useful, now that certain hardware manufacturers decided to permanently restrict access via [cryptographic network protocol Secure Shell],” Buračinský said.

Speaking on the rebrand, Čapek praised the company’s efforts in recent years.

“We have continuously worked to redefine the mining industry and set new standards throughout the past six years,” he said. “Slush Pool, Braiins OS, and any future products we might release require unified and smooth branding that will tell the world who built them.”

Braiins has undergone several changes since taking control of the mining pool, expanding its product portfolio significantly to meet the demands of an ever-increasing customer base.

Holding Its Own

While a number of mining companies have closed shop thanks to the recent crypto winter, Braiins has been able to weather the storm and come out stronger.

“We suppose a lean operation and generally crypto-neutral local environment makes it a little easier for us,” said Buračinský. “As for the growth, I think it's fair to say we saw certain growth following the BTC exchange rate improvement. Not to forget, the user churn typically also reflects the decrease thereof.”

Indeed, Prague is one of the most crypto-friendly cities in the world. It currently boasts over 150 venues where bitcoin can be used as a means of payment including bars, hotels and restaurants. The Czech government is relatively liberal when it comes to cryptocurrency policies. The Czech central bank even published a document in 2017 called “Don’t Be Afraid of Bitcoin,” in which it noted that crypto doesn't offer any threat to conventional banking.

This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine.

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cryptswahili · 5 years

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Slush Pool Operator Braiins Set to Rollout Upgrades

Braiins, a cryptocurrency mining pool operator based in Prague, is rebranding its company’s operation and bringing all of its products under a single umbrella.

Updates Are Coming

According to Braiins Creative Director Luboš Buračinský, Slush Pool customers should expect upgrades on the payout processes and the inclusion of more tokens.

Braiins OS, on the other hand, will include a feature that allows users to install it from a memory card onto a flash memory.

Speaking on the rebrand, Čapek praised the company’s efforts in recent years.

Braiins has undergone several changes since taking control of the mining pool, expanding its product portfolio significantly to meet the demands of an ever-increasing customer base.

Holding Its Own

While a number of mining companies have closed shop thanks to the recent crypto winter, Braiins has been able to weather the storm and come out stronger.

This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Braiins, a cryptocurrency mining pool operator based in Prague, is rebranding its company’s operation and bringing all of its products under a single umbrella.

Updates Are Coming

According to Braiins Creative Director Luboš Buračinský, Slush Pool customers should expect upgrades on the payout processes and the inclusion of more tokens.

Braiins OS, on the other hand, will include a feature that allows users to install it from a memory card onto a flash memory.

Speaking on the rebrand, Čapek praised the company’s efforts in recent years.

Braiins has undergone several changes since taking control of the mining pool, expanding its product portfolio significantly to meet the demands of an ever-increasing customer base.

Holding Its Own

While a number of mining companies have closed shop thanks to the recent crypto winter, Braiins has been able to weather the storm and come out stronger.

This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine.

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bridalpearlnecklace-blog · 7 years

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According to the largest certification laboratories, it was only a matter of time before this day comes, writes Michelle Graff on the portal www.nationaljeweler.com.

Synthetic, or grown in the laboratory, colorless diamonds created with the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, are becoming more common on the market. And not everyone is honest with respect to what they sell.

This spring, a batch of hundreds of CVD synthetic diamonds were presented to the International Gemological Institute (IGI) in Antwerp, and another, albeit a much smaller group of CVD synthetic diamonds, surfaced in the Hong Kong Laboratory of the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in June.

In both parties, the diamonds were mostly high-level in color and transparency, and their size was from 0.30 to 0.70 carats.

These two parties were distinguished by at least one other feature: both were presented without proper announcement. In the case of diamonds in Antwerp, the dealer who presented diamonds grown in the laboratory paid for them as a natural price and, according to those who were involved in this situation, did not know that he bought diamonds grown in the laboratory.

The news of what happened in Antwerp swept across the industry around the world, and in Belgium, where a larger shipment of undeclared synthetic diamonds was presented, the federal police began investigating.

But for the certification laboratories of the industry, the identification of synthetic diamonds is not a sensation, but a reality, with which they were preparing to face for a decade, and with which, as one of the leaders said, they will cope, being fully armed.

Tom Moses, senior vice president of the GIA lab, compares the situation to a student who diligently performed homework and is well prepared for the upcoming exam.

"This reduces the severity of the problem," he says. "We treat her with great respect." We have invested a lot in this business. But I have to say, we have a kind of calm confidence that we really feel that we can cope with the situation. "

The scientific basis for the creation of synthetic diamonds

Although the leaders of the world's largest certification laboratories can not accurately name the year, they are counting the practice of screening for synthetic diamonds since the late 1990s.

Peter Yantzer, executive director of the Gem Society Laboratories, AGS Lab, in particular, recalls a trip around this time to London with Ruth Batson, chief executive officer of AGS. The purpose of the trip was to get acquainted with two new types of equipment DiamondSure and the DiamondView, just released by the diamond giant De Beers.

Soon after this trip across the ocean, the first generation of DiamondSure and DiamondView devices arrived in the United States. Now they are the key components of that invisible work for all, which allows gemmologists to distinguish natural stones from artificial stones.

"De Beers saw what was happening," says Yantzer. "Honor and praise to them."

As noted by GIA in an article published in its summer edition of Gems & Gemology, it is knowledge of the types of diamonds that makes it easier for laboratories to determine whether a diamond is natural, processed or synthetic.

According to this article, which shows the results of decades of research, diamonds can be divided into two main categories of types. Type I includes diamonds containing nitrogenous inclusions, and to type II - diamonds, in which they do not. These types are then subdivided into type Ia (with aggregated nitrogenous inclusions), type Ib (with isolated nitrogenous inclusions), type IIa (without nitrogenous or boron inclusions) and type IIb (with boron inclusions). (Type I is still divided into 2 types - IaA and IaB.)

Moses says that over 95 percent of natural diamonds are of type Ia, but that it is "difficult" to grow diamonds of type Ia in the laboratory. CVD-synthetic diamonds of all colors are of the type IIa or IIb.

When gemologists place a diamond in DiamondSure, they check the spectroscopic characteristics of a diamond type Ia; Basically, to see if the diamond is immediately identified as natural, and whether there is a need for further verification.

The diamonds passed by the DiamondSure device are for further analysis and expert evaluation, for which another De Beers device - DiamondView can be used.

DiamondView subjects high UV UV irradiation stones to get a real-time image of fluorescence characteristics in diamonds showing their growth structure.

Moses says that diamonds grown in the laboratory using CVD or HPHT processes (at high temperature and under high pressure) show a clear picture of growth, which shows that they are artificial. For example, a crop of 10 synthetic diamonds, recently presented by the GIA in Hong Kong, showed "typical growth strata in a CVD process" when they were placed in a DiamondView device, the GIA said.

"It does not matter what is being done to process or mask synthetic diamonds, these two growth rates, characteristic of HPHT and CVD processes, can not be removed. This can not be changed, "he says.

Another aspect of the synthetic diamond market, which, according to Moses, does not change, is the ability to determine whether a stone is natural or synthetic with just one remedy. During the presentation held in New York for the Diamond Manufacturers and Importers Association of America, Moses tossed the idea of developing a "black box", one device capable of completely determining whether a diamond is synthetic or natural.

Moses also expressed his skepticism about DiamaPen, a device in the form of a pen valued at $ 199, which is said to instantly distinguish the yellow diamonds grown in the laboratory from their natural counterparts. The DiamaPen features are currently being checked both in the GIA and in the IGI.

Mitch Jakubovic, director of EGL USA, agrees that the development of the so-called black box seems unlikely.

"Although we did not test this new device (DiamaPen), but there is little chance of developing one inexpensive device capable of instantly distinguishing extracted diamonds from synthetic diamonds," he said. "In some cases, several tests may be required to determine whether the diamond is natural or grown in the laboratory, and it is difficult to imagine a device capable of carrying them all."

He adds that some types of modern equipment used in the process produce graphics that, in turn, are studied and interpreted by more experienced researchers, and from all this, a picture of each individual stone is created.

Role of the laboratory

The last crop of undeclared synthetic diamonds that appeared on the market - the 10 diamonds that were presented in Hong Kong to GIA - were presented for the first time by this particular customer, says Moses.

Although the GIA does not disclose the names of customers, the July issue of eBrief, released by Gems & Gemology, which announced the presentation, mentions one very famous name: Gemesis. The diamond growing company in the laboratory is also a company associated with a large batch of synthetic diamonds, presented to the IGI in Antwerp, although the company published a public denial of its involvement.

The eBrief edition stated that the diamonds had gemological and spectroscopic properties "similar to those observed in CVD synthetic diamonds produced by Gemesis, and it is suggested that annealing was followed by annealing after growth at high temperatures in order to improve their color and possibly their Transparency ".

None of the leaders of the industry's largest certification laboratories expressed surprise at the fact that synthetic diamonds flood the market, or about the fact that they are not always properly represented.

The technology for growing colorless diamonds with the help of CVD-process is being improved. In turn, the stones themselves have become larger and of higher quality, and they are increasingly appearing in certification laboratories around the world.

A little over two years ago, in May 2010, the GIA recognized its first almost colorless, CVD-grown diamond with a weight of more carat. "Clearly, CVD synthetic diamonds are produced of a higher quality and larger size, as the cultivation method continues to improve," GIA said at the time.

There is nothing strange in that the industry participants, seeking to profit, resort to the sale of synthetic diamonds, giving them away as natural. As Jerry Ehrenwald, President and CEO of IGI in the Americas, said: "Since the synthetic diamonds became available from the point of view of their industrial production, it has become possible, either intentionally or unintentionally, to deceive somebody. It was just a matter of time. "

But the emergence of the seemingly inevitable criminal element raises questions about the role of laboratories in attracting those who try to deceive, to trial.

Moses says that at the GIA, when the customer presents synthetic diamonds without proper announcement for the first time, as it just happened in Hong Kong, the laboratory informs him that the presented stones were grown in the laboratory and issues an act about a synthetic diamond, "he says. .

But, if it repeats, he says that the GIA has the right to terminate business relations with such a client and, if circumstances so require, notify relevant trade organizations, trade exchanges and even law enforcement agencies.

Other laboratories agree to notify the industry, but do not want to be involved in the law themselves.

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