In a less than graceful tweet, Jeffrey Smith , the CIO of CEX.io , announced that the company would be pausing mining for its users. Taking into account the Bitcoin price drop, and the increase of difficulty, we will pause cloud mining after the next difficulty increase — Jeffrey Smith (@jeff_smith01) January 12, 2015 Instantly, the internet erupted. Accusations were thrown around, of course, and many wondered out loud if this was the beginning […]