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Bitmain Can Remotely Shut Down Your Antminer (and Everyone Else’s)

Major Bitcoin mining hardware producer Bitmain can remotely shut down almost all active Antminer machines. Dubbed the “Antbleed” backdoor, abuse of the vulnerability could...

Breaking Down Bitcoin’s “AsicBoost Scandal”: The Solutions

As first revealed by Bitcoin Core developer and Blockstream Co-Founder and CTO Gregory Maxwell, and subsequently confirmed by Bitmain through a press release, the...

Breaking Down Bitcoin’s “AsicBoost Scandal”

Through a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) draft sent to the Bitcoin development mailing list last week, long-time Bitcoin Core developer and Blockstream co-founder and...

Bitcoin Price Analysis: UASF Anticipation Pushes Toward New ATHs

SegWit soft fork support continues to rise steadily as a viable option to the blocksize debate. New revelations regarding Jihan Wu and Bitmain’s possible...

Is a Mining Manufacturer Blocking SegWit to Benefit from ASICBOOST?

In a post on the Bitcoin development mailing list today, Blockstream CTO and long-time Bitcoin Core contributor Greg Maxwell laid out the case that an unnamed Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer...

Meet ConnectBTC: Bitmain’s Newest Bitcoin Mining Pool

Bitmain, the major Chinese ASIC producer, has launched a third mining pool: ConnectBTC opened to the public today. AntPool and BTC.com already belong to...

Something Odd Is Happening at Bitcoin’s Largest Mining Pool

Blocks on the Bitcoin network have been increasingly full lately, except for some of the ones mined by AntPool, which is the largest mining...

Antminer’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...

Mining Difficulty Increases by over 10% Due to Bitcoin Price Increase and Next-Generation Chips

As the bitcoin price has risen out of the $200’s over the past month, the price increase has driven another important event: more mining...

Bitmain Announces Launch of Next-Generation Antminer S7 Bitcoin Miner

Bitmain, the Bitcoin mining ASIC provider, Sunday announced the release of its next-generation Bitcoin miner, the Antminer S7, using the recently announced BM1385 ASIC.The...
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