Mining centralization

Blind patriotism encouraging further centralization of mining in America is a regulatory capture trap.

The team at Luxor has introduced Hashrate Index, a website featuring data that adds some transparency to the bitcoin mining industry.

Iran’s local cryptocurrency community welcomes the legitimization of mining as an industry but feels that miners aren’t being treated fairly.

The company’s new bitcoin mining hosting service and pool is its attempt to re-democratize the mining economy.

Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away.