This Week in Mining - Ravencoin inflation bug, Kazakhstan invests in mining

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Here’s this week’s mining industry news:

  1. A vulnerability in Ravencoin allowed miners to create more mining rewards than originally allocated. It is reported that there are approximately 300 million extra Ravencoins that have been created. These extra coins have already circulated through exchanges. Currently the devs plan to fix the bug but keep the fraudulently created coins in circulation as it is now mixed in with legitimate coins.
  2. Kazakhstan plans to double its investment in digital currency mining. Their initiative was reported to have attracted 20 million US dollars worth of investments.