The Bitcoin Halving Approaches: Miners BitFury and BTCC Not Concerned
The second-ever Bitcoin block reward halving is estimated to take place in a little under two weeks, and the overall effects of this event are still somewhat of an unknown. There has been a runup in...
View ArticleAntminer's New R4 Model Designed to Be Used in Homes, Decrease Centralization
Once upon a time, at the beginning of Bitcoin’s history, it was possible to mine bitcoin at home using a PC’s CPU. Later, miners had to switch to GPUs, then to ASICs and then to more and more...
View ArticleAn Interview With ViaBTC, the New Bitcoin Mining Pool on the Blockchain
Roughly two weeks ago, ViaBTC, a relatively new bitcoin mining pool that launched earlier this summer, garnered some attention on social media due to the announcement that they’re currently testing...
View ArticleProblems Associated With Bitcoin Mining Centralization May Be Overstated
For many, the level of centralization found in the Bitcoin mining ecosystem is the biggest issue for the peer-to-peer digital cash system today. As a technology that relies on decentralization in...
View ArticleWhy Bitcoin Mining Pools Aren’t Incentivized to Broadcast Blocks Quickly
It is generally accepted that latency in block propagation is one of the bottlenecks for Bitcoin scaling. This is why many of Bitcoin’s most active developers and researchers have presented a series...
View ArticleBitmain Reveals Plans for Major Bitcoin Mining Data-Center in Northwestern China
Beijing-based Bitcoin ASIC hardware producer and mining giant, Bitmain, announced on November 5 that it’s in the process of building a major data center complex in the northwest of China. The company...
View ArticleIs Bitcoin Mining Destined for Data Centers?
For many, Bitmain’s recent announcement of the realization of a major data center in northwestern China served as a reminder of the level of mining centralization in Bitcoin. Although the...
View ArticleOp-Ed: China's Mining Subsidies Create Tension With Free Trade Rules
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it’s tempting to treat everything as a nail. Thus, most people in the technically-oriented Bitcoin community treat the specter of mining centralization as a...
View ArticleWhere Bitcoin Mining Pools Stand on Segregated Witness
For the first time, bitcoin miners have been able to signal support for Segregated Witness this past week. Developed as a soft fork, the proposed centerpiece of Bitcoin Core’s scalability roadmap...
View ArticleHere’s Why India’s GBMiners Mining Pool Switched to Bitcoin Unlimited
A few weeks ago, the relatively new India-based bitcoin mining pool GBMiners decided to switch their software from Bitcoin Core to Bitcoin Unlimited. Bitcoin Unlimited is software that creates an...
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