Category Archives: Blog

By Sandra Quinn As the summer truly takes hold, temperatures are soaring, summer is really starting to sizzle and the urge to work outside is stronger than ever. However, unless working outside entails bringing a paper and pen, perhaps it’s not the best idea for your personal devices. In theory, grabbing a blanket, a pitcher […]Continue Reading

By Ashish Rajendra Kumar Sai The difficulty of mining has risen drastically over the last few years making it hard for individual miners with a few GPU’s to mine a block. The average difficulty of mining, as of July 3, 2018, stands at 3455.91 TH (Source – etherscan.io) consequently rendering the possibility of gaining mining […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Ten years ago, back in 2008, the first ripples of the blockchain wave were seen online when Satoshi Nakamoto came up with the concept and it has taken a decade for people to explore the possibilities, develop ideas around it and now it has been embraced by the technological world. In the […]Continue Reading

By Ashish Rajendra Kumar Sai In our previous blog, which you can read here, we looked at the hardware elements of our mining rig and now we will take a closer look at the software segment.  Similar to the standard personal computer, we will need an Operating System for our rig, but there are many flavours […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Almost every part of your life will involve some sort of account number, username, password, profile picture or personal detail. Whether it is for your electricity account, your loyalty card for your favourite store, your bank account or your social media accounts, you are identifiable in a number of different ways. We […]Continue Reading

  By Ashish Rajendra Kumar Sai If you have ever thought about building an ethereum mining rig, a big part of that is knowing what components you will need and that is what we are looking at with this blog.  In our blog from last week, we looked at the basics of a mining rig, […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn There is no such thing as a free lunch – this is something we all know, yet when it comes to free apps, we put our blind faith in the integrity of the word free and take it all at face value. We click ‘I Agree’ on Terms and Conditions without so […]Continue Reading

By Ashish Rajendra Kumar Sai Over the next few weeks, we will post a series of instruction guides to help new users to build a mining rig. Before we dive into the specifics of how to build a mining rig, we thought we would give a run down of some of the terms you will be seeing.  Miner […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Over the years, Hollywood and the movie industry have brought us what seem like fantastical and futuristic movies, but if you look back, many of the things, which once seemed bizarre and unusual are now commonplace and everyday. In 1990, ‘Total Recall’ brought us into an onscreen world of driverless cars. Well […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Should technology come with an age limit? As technology becomes more prominent in our daily lives, this is a question many of us are bound to consider. In this blog, we have previously discussed how important it is to get older people online (https://www.horizon-globex.com/the-importance-of-getting-older-people-online/) and how technology can be used as a […]Continue Reading