Is the Bitcoin Network Becoming Unsustainable?
The electricity used to power the Bitcoin network is enough to power the Czech Republic more than once over. New figures by a PwC researcher have shown that the Bitcoin network uses...
Why Has Ethereum Mining Algorithm Approval Caused Community Uproar
The Ethereum community has been locked in battle this week over a controversial change to its mining algorithm called ProgPoW. If implemented it could cause a highly contentious hard...
How to Build an Ethereum Mining Rig at Home in 2020
Ethereum (ETH) has become more appealing in 2020, with prices rising above $270. Mining has also picked up, awarding 2 ETH each 15 seconds, or 8 ETH per minute. Ethash Still Accessible...
Bitcoin Mining Experiences Worst Year in Half a Decade
Bitcoin miners held a stunning competition in 2019, lifting both the hashrate and difficulty to all-time highs. But it turns out for significant stretches, mining pools absorbed...
Bitcoin Hashrate Futures Coming in 2020, Mining Boom Inbound?
Mining companies may benefit from a growing market for Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives to finance and support their power-hungry operations. In 2019, despite price fluctuations, mining...
Monero Warns Users of Malware Ahead of Hard Fork
XMR users who downloaded binary files in the past 24 hours or so might have installed malware, Monero said via its official site getmonero.org. Users Notice Weird Binary Files Some of...
Bitcoin Network Experiences Slowest Block in 5 Years
The Bitcoin (BTC) network produced an unusually slow block, taking 119 minutes to discover the block number. The anomaly is happening despite the record activity of miners. Slow Block...
Explosive Mining Growth Indicates High Confidence in Bitcoin (BTC)
Bitcoin miners are not giving up, showing immense confidence and working against significant network difficulty. The last difficulty hike from September 13 made it 10.38% less likely...
Monero Successfully Upgrades Its Protocol
Monero (XMR), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency launched in 2014, announced that it has successfully performed a protocol upgrade on March 9, 2019. Hard Fork Aims to Improve...
Bitmain Adds 5 New Billionaires to China’s Wealthiest List
China’s latest rich list for 2018 sees five billionaires joining China’s wealthiest for the first time thanks to Bitmain’s market lead on cryptocurrency mining. The Hurun...
David Vs. Goliath: Companies Like MicroBt Look To Challenge Bitmain’s Dominance
Bitmain is well-known across the cryptocurrency community for dominating the mining hardware market. Some think the Chinese giant might be losing its edge, and a growing number of...
Sia Announces Hard Fork to Brick Bitmain ASICs
After close to a year of debates within its community, Sia has finally gone ahead with a hard fork to brick out Bitmain and Innosilicoin ASICs. Following the hard fork, only miners...