Ethereum mining and Crypto lending platforms

Wednesday 30 Jun 2021, 18:00 → 20:00 Europe/Zurich

Zoom

Slides only available for club-finance e-group members.

Recording on request to club-finance-admin@cern.ch

Meeting recording

18:00 → 18:45 Lessons learnt from hobby mining Ethereum

Michal will share his take on mining Ethereum and discuss how to set up and optimize the process on a regular gaming PC. Then we will investigate the profitability and outline future scenarios.

Speaker: Michal Haubner (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))

Lessons learnt from hobby mining Ethereum v2.pdf

18:45 → 19:30 Using crypto lending platforms for fixed income

Riding the latest crypto wave, several crypto companies popped up that offer collaterized loans, and more interestingly, between 4%-12% annual interest on your idle crypto assets. Using stablecoins, this translates to a savings account that outperforms most regular banks' offers.
This talk reviews stablecoins, four popular companies (Crypto.com, Celsius, Nexo and YouHodler), and tries to answer how they work and whether you should trust them with your money.

Speaker: Marton Ady (CERN)

cefi platforms codimd.pdf