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Amid shifting Federal Reserve policies, persistent inflation, and geopolitical uncertainty, investor... |
| Nov 7, 2024 | BTC.COM Reshapes to Open-Source Computing Power Platform | Singapore, Singapore, November 5th, 2024, Chainwire
BTC.com officially announced the completion of its upgrade and the launch of an open-source computing power platform. The platform continues to embody the community spirit and adopts the m... |
| Nov 7, 2024 | BTC.COM Reshapes to Open-Source Computing Power Platform | Singapore, Singapore, November 5th, 2024, Chainwire
BTC.com officially announced the completion of its upgrade and the launch of an open-source computing power platform. The platform continues to embody the community spirit and adopts the m... |
| Oct 30, 2023 | Сложность майнинга биткоина достигла исторического максимума | Сложность майнинга биткоина 30 октября обновила исторический максимум и достигла 62,56 Т (1 Т – один триллион). По данным BTC.com, в начале года показатель был почти в два раза меньше – 35,36 Т.
Курс первой криптовалюты также стремительно п... |
| Oct 4, 2023 | The First Bitcoin Mining Pool From El Salvador Is Here | A vendor hods a sign reading "Bitcoin accepted" at a store in San Salvador, on January 26, 2022. - ... [+] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) urged El Salvador to withdraw bitcoin as a legal tender, pointing to "great risk... |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Further evidence that Bitcoin is a commodity, and falls outside the securities issue | with Jason Deane |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Bitcoin Miners Face Record Difficulty Level | Bitcoin mining difficulty, a measure of how hard it is to mine a block and earn rewards, has hit a record high, according to data provided by BTC.com.
The mining difficulty has climbed by 2.18% to hit a new peak of 52.35 trillion at block h... |
| Jun 3, 2023 | Binance (BNB) Has No Plans to Enter Bitcoin (BTC) Mining, CZ Says | Contents Binance (BNB) is not going to start mining Bitcoin (BTC), CEO saysEventually, Lightning Network will be supported by all exchanges
In his recent "ask me anything" session, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, prominent Bitcoine... |
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| Apr 20, 2023 | Bitcoin Becomes Stronger Than Ever as Mining Difficulty Reaches Record High | According to data provided by BTC.com, Bitcoin's mining difficulty has undergone an adjustment at block height 786,240, increasing by 1.72% to reach a record high of 48.71T.
This development coincided with the average hashrate of the entire... |
| Feb 14, 2023 | PEGA Pool Announces the Official Launch of Its Eco-friendly Bitcoin Mining Pool | Swanage, United Kingdom, 14th February, 2023, Chainwire
UK-based PEGA Pool announces the official launch of its eco-friendly Bitcoin mining pool that enables clients to offset their carbon footprint and incentivizes them to use renewable e... |
| Dec 6, 2022 | Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Records Biggest Drop of 2022. Here’s Why | According to data provided by BTC.com, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has plunged by 7.32 %, which is the biggest negative adjustment of the year.
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| Oct 17, 2022 | Binance announces a $500 million lending facility for troubled Bitcoin miners | Team TC 17 Oct, 2022
Crypto exchange Binance announced a $500 million project to support the struggling Bitcoin mining and infrastructure providers.
"The Binance Pool will provide debt financing services to public and private blue-chip... |
| Oct 10, 2022 | Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Sees Massive Spike. These Are Key Reasons Why | Bitcoin’s mining difficulty recently spiked by a whopping 13.55% and peaked at a new all-time high of 35.6 trillion hashes, according to data provided by BTC.com. It has marked the biggest increase since May 2021.
This, of course, has put m... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | Crypto Miner Poolin Issues $238M in IOU Tokens to Fix Liquidity Crisis | Poolin, one of the largest Bitcoin mining pools, has issued $238 million worth of IOU (I-Owe-You) tokens to customers. The latest development comes shortly after the firm shut down its withdrawal services due to its “liquidity issue.” Pooli... |
| Sep 19, 2022 | Bitcoin Is More Centralized Than Ethereum, Implies Evan Van Ness | One of the biggest updates on the cryptocurrency market that made PoW on Ethereum obsolete has also sparked discussions about the problematic topic: which network is more decentralized at this point?
U.Today has recently covered the distrib... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | Bitcoin's Mining Difficulty Records Second Largest Drop in 2022 Amid Price Correction | According to data provided by BTC.com, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has declined by 2.35% over the past two weeks, which marks the second biggest negative adjustment since the start of 2022.
Mining difficulty updates roughly every two weeks ... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | Сравнение гетерогенных блокчейнов (Cosmos, Polkadot, Avalanche) | Введение
В рамках подготовки образовательного курса “Разработчик смарт-контрактов” (подробности в конце этой статьи) мы подготавливаем серию статей и переводы лучших статей про блокчейн платформы третьего поколения, разработку под которые м... |
| Apr 22, 2022 | Cardano Founder Takes Aim at Bitcoin Mining Centralization | Contents A plutocratic systemThe centralization of Bitcoin mining
In a recent tweet, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson sparred with Blockstream CEO Adam Back over the centralization of the leading distributed consensus mechanisms in the cry... |
| Apr 15, 2022 | Market Wrap: Cryptos Mixed Amid NFT Slowdown, Meme Coins Surge | The Market Wrap team is out of the office on Friday because it's a CoinDesk company holiday, with most traditional markets closed in the U.S.
For the latest cryptocurrency prices, please go here, and for the latest news headlines, please go... |
| Apr 15, 2022 | 13 BTC blocks have been merge-mined with Jax.Network | Jax.Network is anchored to the Bitcoin network
The Jax.Network blockchain has been used to merge-mine BTC blocks and receive extra block rewards in JXN.
We’re excited to see our protocol in use. The team’s been working hard to make this hap... |
| Mar 26, 2022 | Is Miner Concentration Once Again Jeopardizing Bitcoin? Not Exactly | One of the main pillars of bitcoin’s (BTC) value proposition is decentralization. Why then does the computer processing power behind the largest cryptocurrency seem to be concentrating again in one place, this time North America? The answer... |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Why Do Old-Line Businesses Enter Crypto Mining? Simple: Fat Profits | Margins as high as 90%? It doesn’t take a Harvard MBA to know that’s an unusually profitable business model.
Such was the allure of cryptocurrency mining, back when bitcoin and the broader digital asset market hit all-time highs last year, ... |
| Mar 3, 2022 | Bitcoin About to Break Positive Difficulty Adjustment Streak as Price Rally Stalls | Bitcoin's mining difficulty is set to drop by 1.62% roughly three hours from now, according to data provided by BTC.com.
Thus, it will end its impressive streak of six consecutive positive adjustments. The difficulty peaked at 200.19 EH/s.
... |
| Feb 14, 2022 | Bitcoin Hashrate Hits Another Record Peak Amid Anemic Price Action | Bitcoin's hashrate has reached a new all-time high of 248 EH/s, which essentially means that Bitcoin miners are computing 248 quintillion hashes per second.
After hitting the new peak, it then fell back to roughly 210 EH/s. Image by blockch... |
| Feb 11, 2022 | How Texas is becoming a bitcoin mining hub | There are thousands of pounds of bitcoin mining equipment still in transit from China to Texas, part of a multi-month caravan, as Texas Governor Greg Abbott makes courting the bitcoin industry a pinnacle part of his re-election campaign in ... |
| Dec 9, 2021 | Bitcoin Hashrate Approaches Full Recovery From China Crackdown | The bitcoin hashrate, a measure of computing power on the network, has almost completely recovered to its level in May, when Chinese authorities started a crackdown on the industry.
At the time, China was the biggest bitcoin miner in the wo... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | Foundry Launches Resale Marketplace for Bitcoin Mining Machines | Digital asset mining and staking firm Foundry Digital has launched FoundryX, a new marketplace for buying and selling bitcoin mining machines, the company announced Wednesday. Foundry is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which is the ... |
| Nov 11, 2021 | BIT Mining Limited to Report Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results on November 18, 2021 | AKRON, Ohio, Nov. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BIT Mining Limited (NYSE: BTCM) ("BIT Mining Limited" or the "Company"), a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company, today announced that it plans to release its ... |
| Oct 19, 2021 | Bitcoin Difficulty Back Above 20T, Here's What This Means | Contents Bitcoin difficulty surges again, surpasses 20T levelMiners shrugged off Chinese crackdown
The nodes of the first cryptocurrency went through trivial positive adjustment of mining difficulty. How much has it added since the exodus o... |
| Oct 18, 2021 | BIT Mining : Increases Investment in Ohio Cryptocurrency Mining Site | AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BIT Mining Limited (NYSE: BTCM) ("BIT Mining" or the "Company"), a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company, today announced that it has strengthened its collabor... |
| Oct 15, 2021 | BIT Mining : Mining Pool Subsidiary to Exit Mainland China Market | AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BIT Mining Limited (NYSE: BTCM) ("BIT Mining" or the "Company"), a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company, today announced that its mining pool subsidiary, BTC.... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | Biggest Bitcoin Mining Pool Bans Chinese Miners | Mining pool F2Pool has started purging miners from mainland China, according to local crypto media outlet 8BTCnews.
From now on, Chinese customers will have their accounts suspended or terminated.
F2Pool is the oldest Bitcoin mining pool, w... |
| Sep 22, 2021 | Bitcoin May Still Hit $100,000 in 2021 as Funds Keep Leaving Gold for BTC: Bloomberg’s Mike McGlone | Contents Funds keep outflowing from gold to enter Bitcoin"Authorities plan to keep supply of fiat currency unlimited," BTC may still hit $100KBitcoin difficulty rises 3.16%
Mike McGlone, leading commodity strategist, offers a reas... |
| Sep 9, 2021 | Как создавался BTC.com — крупная компания для заработка и хранения криптовалюты | Содержание Создание, покупка и переименование компании Запуск первого биткоина для потребителя на чипе ASIC Инвестирование, хранение и заработок криптовалюты на BTC.com Расширение BTC.com и начало майнинга Ethereum Текущий владелец и прибыл... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Hackers raided a Japanese crypto exchange and seized up to $74 million in assets, report says | Liquid, a Japanese crypto exchange, said on Twitter that it had been hacked.
As much as $74 million in crypto assets were stolen, a report said.
This is the latest in a string of crypto hacks and crimes, which have become more and more comm... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Hackers raided a Japanese crypto exchange and seized up to $74 million in assets, report says | A visual illustration of bitcoin. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Liquid, a Japanese crypto exchange, said on Twitter that it had been hacked. As much as $74 million in crypto assets were stolen, a report said. This is the latest i... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Hackers raided a Japanese crypto exchange and seized up to R1bn in assets, report says | A visual illustration of bitcoin.
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Liquid, a Japanese crypto exchange, said on Twitter that it had been hacked. As much as R1 billion in crypto assets were stolen, a report said.This is the latest in ... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Hackers raided a Japanese crypto exchange and seized up to $74 million in assets, report says | Liquid, a Japanese crypto exchange, said on Twitter that it had been hacked.
As much as $74 million in crypto assets were stolen, a report said.
This is the latest in a string of crypto hacks and crimes, which have become more and more comm... |
| Jul 31, 2021 | Bitcoin (BTC) Difficulty Sees First Positive Adjustment Since May | Contents Bitcoin (BTC) difficulty adds six percent, touches 14.5 trillionMining equipment is on its way to a new hangout
As the Bitcoin (BTC) price seems to have ended its multi-week painful collapse, its difficulty—an integral metric that ... |
| Jul 23, 2021 | BIT Mining : Announces Removal of VIE Structure and Disposal of Chinese Lottery Business | HONGKONG, China, July 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/— BIT Mining Limited (NYSE: BTCM) ("BIT Mining" or "the Company"), a leading cryptocurrency mining enterprise, today announced its decision to eliminate its variable interest en... |
| Jul 18, 2021 | Bitcoin Sees Longest Streak of Negative Difficulty Adjustments Since 2011 | The Bitcoin network’s mining difficulty has recorded its fourth negative adjustment in a row. According to data provided by BTC.com, it dropped 4.8 percent to 13.7 trillion, the lowest level since June 2020. Image by btc.com
Satoshi Nakamot... |
| Jul 8, 2021 | Bitcoin mining has never been easier since China's crackdown - and miners now stand to make higher profits | Bitcoin mining has become easier after China's strict crackdown on crypto miners.
The bitcoin hash rate, or difficulty level for mining, recorded its largest drop ever on Saturday.
A crypto trader said his mining revenue jumped 50% after th... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Bitcoin’s hash rate has dropped by 40% in one month — here’s what that means and why most investors aren’t worried | China contributed 65% to Bitcoin's hash rate, but that's expected to see a sizable drop after the Asian giant’s crackdown on mining.
Bitcoin was inherently designed to tackle a drop or rise in its hash rate. It does this by implementing a c... |
| Jun 20, 2021 | Bitcoin's Mining Difficulty to Record Longest Drawdown Since Major Bear Market Bottom | Bitcoin’s mining difficulty is on course to record an 11.18 percent drop, according to data provided by BTC.com.
The network logged two negative adjustments on June 6 and May 30 (-5.30 percent and -15.97 percent, respectively). Difficulty—w... |
| Jun 13, 2021 | Bitcoin Wallet Joins 12 Largest Fundraising Rounds In Crypto History | Bitcoin golden physical coin illustration on United States Dollar banknotes. Visual representations ... [+] of the digital Cryptocurrency Bitcoin with the USD bill. Bitcoin with the symbol BTC, XBT is a popular digital currency that showed ... |
| Jun 9, 2021 | How to Start Disrupting Cryptocurrencies: “Mining” Is Money Transmission | Bitcoin arrived on the scene just two years after the iPhone, and in that time it has helped facilitate a whole lot of bad things. All cryptocurrency assets, not just Bitcoin, are zero sum. So every dollar “made” in cryptocurrency was simpl... |
| May 28, 2021 | 12 Largest Venture Rounds In Crypto History | Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder & CEO of CircleSportsfile via Getty Images |
| May 24, 2021 | Bitcoin (BTC) Mining Pool CEO Claims Chinese Crackdown May Be Exaggerated, Here's Why | Contents "Not as Serious as You Think"Chance for Europe and North America
In the last few days, Bitcoin (BTC) markets are going through unprecedented fear. Alarming statements from Chinese governmental bodies triggered massive sel... |
| May 19, 2021 | BIT MINING LIMITED
BIT Mining Limited : Announces to Invest in a Cryptocurrency Mining Data Center in Texas | SHENZHEN, China, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BIT Mining Limited (NYSE: BTCM) ("BIT Mining" or the "Company"), a leading cryptocurrency mining enterprise, today announced that it has entered into a binding investment ter... |
| Apr 22, 2021 | Bitcoin Hashrate Moving to America as U.S. Mining Pool Enters Top Five | The idea of the U.S. challenging China's formidable Bitcoin mining dominance is not that far-fetched anymore.
According to recent data, Foundry USA has now entered the top five biggest mining pools in the world. Its daily hashrate has surpa... |
| Apr 6, 2021 | Chinese Lottery Firm Furthers Crypto Pivot by Buying Bitcoin Miner Maker for $100M | Chinese online lottery company 500.com (NYSE: WBAI) has acquired Bee Computing, a Hong Kong-registered maker of bitcoin mining machines, for $100 million, according to a filing Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
500.co... |
| Apr 2, 2021 | Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits All-Time High as Delayed ASIC Shipments Come Online | Bitcoin’s mining difficulty hit an all-time high today after a roughly 6% increase, a move that follows a record month in earnings for bitcoin miners as new-generation ASICs come online.
“Difficulty” refers to the relative measure of the am... |
| Mar 24, 2021 | Bitcoin gains 5% after Elon Musk says Tesla now accepts the cryptocurrency as payment | Bitcoin jumped 5% after billionaire Elon Musk announced Tesla will accept the digital asset as payment.
Musk said bitcoin payments made to Tesla will not be converted to fiat currency.
The option to pay in bitcoin will be made available to ... |
| Mar 11, 2021 | Foundry Ends Bitcoin Mining Pool Beta Phase, Adds More Institutional Clients | Foundry, the cryptocurrency mining firm owned by Digital Currency Group (DCG), is opening its mining pool to additional institutional customers, emerging from a five-month beta phase during which the company has already grown into one of th... |
| Feb 1, 2021 | First Mover: Silver Is the New GameStop as Musk's #Bitcoin Stalls | Bitcoin (BTC) quickly settled back into the past couple weeks' range of between roughly $30,000 and $36,000 after a short-lived price spike Friday when Elon Musk, the electric-vehicle and private-spaceflight entrepreneur who's also reported... |
| Jan 27, 2021 | Bitcoin Mining Pools Owned by Ripple Partner SBI and Barry Silbert's DCG Enter Top 15 | Contents SBI Crypto comes in twelfthGrayscale added BTC mined within two months in just 30 days
Crypto journalist Colin Wu, based in China and offering coverage of all events related to the blockchain and crypto industries, has taken to Twi... |
| Jan 24, 2021 | Bitcoin Difficulty Records Second Positive Adjustment in a Row as Market Stumbles | Contents Mining Bitcoin has never been more difficult Miners remain unfazed by their dropping revenue
Bitcoin mining difficulty, which measures how challenging it is for miners to get block rewards, has increased by 1.05 percent to 20.82 tr... |
| Jan 10, 2021 | Washington Could See Another Invasion of Bitcoin Miners | Contents Miners are not welcomeScaling up
Central Washington could once again become a magnet for Bitcoin miners, according to a report published by the Seattle Times.
John Stoll, the director of customer service at Chelan County’s public u... |
| Jan 9, 2021 | Bitcoin mining difficulty higher than never before! | |
| Sep 15, 2020 | Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Expected to Reach 18,285,582,891,092 During Next Adjustment | Contents Bitcoin's mining difficulty and hashrate surge in tandemWhy it takes 2,016 blocks
Bitcoin's mining difficulty is expected to increase over 11 percent on Sept. 19, which would be the second-largest positive adjustment this week.
Min... |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Miners' Bitcoin Holdings Reach Two-Year High to Almost 2M | Bitcoin miners are holding more bitcoins than at any point in the past two years as the cryptocurrency continues to trade above $11,000, signalling increased bullishness about future gains.
According to wallet addresses tracked by Glassnode... |
| Jul 17, 2020 | Binance Pool Poised to Grab More Bitcoin Hashrate in Russia and Central Asia | Binance is looking to consolidate more bitcoin mining hashrate to its pool in Russia and the Central Asia region.
The world's largest crypto exchange is deploying a physical server node for its pool at BitRiver, the largest bitcoin mining h... |
| Jul 13, 2020 | Key Reasons Why Bitcoin Hashrate Just Reached New All-Time High | Contents Mining death spiral has been canceledA post-halving price rally
Bitcoin’s hashrate recently hit a new all-time high of more than 125 EH/s, meaning that the network of the world’s largest cryptocurrency is now the strongest it has e... |
| Jun 16, 2020 | Bitcoin Difficulty Logs Its Highest Positive Adjustment Since January 2018 | Contents Miners flock back to the Bitcoin network Bitcoin’s hashrate is likely to decline
Bitcoin's mining difficulty has just increased by a whopping 14.94 percent at block 635,040, according to data provided by the BTC.com mining pool. im... |
| Jun 16, 2020 | Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Makes Biggest Jump in 29 Months | Bitcoin has just posted its biggest mining difficulty increase in nearly 2.5 years.
At around 17:00 UTC on Tuesday, the network adjusted its difficulty level – a measure of how hard it is for miners to compete for block rewards on the block... |
| Jun 15, 2020 | Bitcoin Price May Plunge Due to Several Major Bearish Factors, Including Large Difficulty Adjustment | Contents This week should be very interesting for BitcoinBitcoin expected to plunge well below $9,000
Renowned Bitcoin expert and columnist, Joseph Young, has shared several big factors that may affect the Bitcoin price this week, which You... |
| May 20, 2020 | This Is Why Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Just Dropped 6 Percent | Contents Speeding up block production Mining like no tomorrow
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty, which measures how hard it is to generate a block, has just dropped six percent to 15.14 trillion (T).
This is the coin’s third negative adjustment i... |
| May 11, 2020 | First Mover: As Bitcoin's Halving Finally Arrives, a Price Retreat Deflates the Hype | A pullback in the bitcoin market over the past few days has rattled traders on the eve of the blockchain network's third halving, which had been tabbed by some bullish investors as a catalyst for higher prices.
The cryptocurrency fell for a... |
| May 5, 2020 | Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Nears All-Time High in Final Adjustment Before Halving | Bitcoin mining difficulty – a measure of how hard it is to compete for block rewards – has neared an all-time high in the network’s last adjustment before the halving happens in roughly seven days.
The world’s largest blockchain network by ... |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Total Bitcoin (BTC) Fees Paid Surges 50 Percent in Past 24 Hours | Contents Total amount of Bitcoin fees paid soarsBTC balance on exchanges hits a major low
With less than twenty days left before the next Bitcoin halving, an inflow of new data shows that the Bitcoin chain remains as active as ever. It also... |
| Feb 21, 2020 | Insolvent Exchange FCoin Had Bitcoin Outflow Problems Just Two Months After Launch: Report | Cryptocurrency exchange FCoin, which revealed its insolvency this week, may have already been leaking bitcoin as early as July 2018 – just two months after its debut.
On-chain analysis and security startup PeckShield released a report on Fr... |
| Feb 6, 2020 | Breaking! Bitcoin Halving Could Now Happen in Late April Instead of May | The halving of block rewards for Bitcoin miners was earlier scheduled to happen sometime in mid-May. However, faster block times influenced by recent all-time highs in hash rates could bring the halving closer than earlier anticipated.
At t... |
| Nov 21, 2019 | Maker of Wasabi Bitcoin Wallet Valued at $7.5M in First Equity Round | The privacy-centric bitcoin wallet Wasabi, launched by zkSNACKs Ltd. in 2018, just raised its first equity investment from Cypherpunk Holdings, a publicly-traded Canadian firm.
Cypherpunk Holdings CEO Dominic Frisby said the firm invested $... |
| Nov 1, 2019 | Bitcoin Mining Power Sees Short-Term Drop as Rainy Season Ends in China | After sustained growth over the past three months, computing power on the bitcoin network has seen a fallback as the summer rainy season trails off in China.
According to data from Poolin, the world's largest bitcoin mining pool by real tim... |
| Oct 18, 2019 | With 18 Million Bitcoins Mined, How Hard Is That 21 Million Limit? | In a matter of hours, the 18 millionth bitcoin will have been mined and the world’s first cryptocurrency will draw one step closer to its hard-coded cap of 21 million coins.
“The pie is shrinking. This [milestone] gives people some simple m... |
| Sep 22, 2019 | Pirate Bay is Not Getting Rich From Bitcoin Donations… Or Is it? | The Pirate Bay has been both an early adopter and a pioneer when it comes to cryptocurrencies.
The popular torrent site first embraced Bitcoin in 2013 and soon after many other pirate sites followed suit.
The advantage of bitcoin donations ... |
| Sep 1, 2019 | Bitcoin Mining Farms Are Flourishing on the Ruins of Soviet Industry in Siberia | The Takeaway:
Russia's abandoned Soviet-era factories are enjoying a second life as cryptocurrency mining facilities.
Siberia's big hydropower plants (another legacy of the USSR) have lured miners with cheap electricity.
The favorable energ... |
| Aug 23, 2019 | Bitcoin Miners Are Heating Homes Free of Charge in Frigid Siberia | Hotmine CEO Oles Slobodenyuk couldn't have picked a better place to pitch his product: a bitcoin mining rig that doubles as a home heating appliance.
Irkutsk, Eastern Siberia, is famously cold in the winter, when subzero temperatures are th... |
| Aug 21, 2019 | Bitcoin Miners Halt Operations as Rainstorm Triggers Mudslides in China | A prolonged rainstorm in China's Sichuan province has caused land- and mudslides, forcing some local hydropower plants and bitcoin miners to halt operations.
Heavy rain has been drenching Sichuan's mountainous Aba prefecture since Monday, w... |
| Aug 6, 2019 | Man Takes Bitcoin Miner Seller to Tribunal Over Electricity Bill and Wins | A Malta-based bitcoin miner has taken action after getting a shock when he received his electricity bill.
As reported by Malta Today, the unnamed man had bought a bitcoin miner from local IT firm 3 Group, but found that the power costs were... |
| Aug 5, 2019 | Bitcoin’s Computing Power Sets Record as Over 100K New Miners Go Online | The total computing power now dedicated to securing the bitcoin blockchain has set yet another record.
According to data from mining services operator BTC.com, the average bitcoin mining hash rate over the last two weeks has reached 71.43 q... |
| Mar 5, 2019 | Bitcoin Miners Are Investing Again, Expecting a Cheap Power Boom Soon | Bitcoin miners in China are buying used equipment and making deals with mining farms and hydroelectric plants, betting abundant water this summer will make their businesses profitable again.
That's because during this season a significant a... |
| Apr 4, 2017 | Purse Proposal Touts Extension Blocks as Bitcoin Scaling Solution | Bitcoin startup Purse is spearheading work on a new solution it believes could break the network's long-simmering scaling gridlock.
In a new blog post issued today, Purse has released a specification that includes demo functionality and cod... |
| Aug 8, 2014 | An Interview With Josh Garza, CEO Of GAW Miners, On His $1 Million Purchase Of BTC.com | On Monday GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza announced the purchase of BTC.com for $1 million. The domain, which now points to a landing page, is to be a beachhead on the war to make bitcoin a household name and, like sex.com before it, the purchase... |
| It just got harder and less profitable to mine for bitcoin as algorithm adjusts | Every 2016 blocks, or about every two weeks, bitcoin resets how tough it is for miners to mine.
Early Friday morning, as expected, the bitcoin code automatically made it about 7.3% more difficult to solve a block. |
| New York and Texas are winning the war to attract bitcoin miners | New data shows that many of America’s bitcoin miners are based in New York, Kentucky, Georgia, and Texas.
Within the U.S., 19.9% of bitcoin’s hashrate is in New York, 18.7% in Kentucky, 17.3% in Georgia, and Texas accounts for 14%, accordin... |
| Bitcoin mining is now easier and more profitable as algorithm adjusts after China crackdown | More than 54% of bitcoin’s hashrate, which is the collective computing power of miners worldwide, has dropped off the network since its market peak in May.
The bitcoin code has re-calibrated to make it 28% less difficult to mine.
Miners who... |
