John McAfee Company to Begin Mining of Ethereum

MGT Capital Investments, Inc., dedicated to the financing and acquisition of computer security systems, announced that it would start mining ethers in the Ethereum blockchain, the second largest market capitalization platform and criptomoneda and a major rival to Bitcoin.

MGT Capital is chaired by John McAfee, creator of the well-known antivirus that bears his name. The objective of this incursion into the blockchain industry is to generate some capital gain, bearing in mind that the cryptomoneda fired its price by almost 4000% during the last months.

The program that drives them to the mining of this criptomoneda will be executed in alliance with Bit5ive LLC, having bought 60 graphic processors for mining, that will use cards of GPU of last generation, as well as CPU of Intel, that according to the press release are In capacity to share its processing between Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC).