Mining pool
An 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...
How Bitcoin’s Second Halving Came and Went, and Not Much Happened
Bitcoin's block reward halved for the second time last week, from 25 to 12.5 bitcoins. The event, commonly referred to as “the halving” (or...
Bitcoin Miners and Core Developers Release SegWit, Hard Fork Agreement
At an industry roundtable in Hong Kong on February 21, representatives of the Bitcoin mining industry and a group of Bitcoin Core developers met to...
Bitcoin Roundtable Announcement Thwarts Bitcoin Classic Launch
Bitcoin Classic, the Bitcoin implementation set to double Bitcoin's 1 megabyte block size limit by a hard fork, suffered a significant setback shortly after...
Slush Pool Introduces Provably Fair Bitcoin Mining
Bitcoin mining today is dominated by mining pools. These mining pools arguably have a strong hold on the Bitcoin network, but also on their...
Slush Pool to Re-Enable BIP 101 Bitcoin Mining
Slush Pool, a Czech-based Bitcoin mining pool accounting for 6 percent of hashing power on the Bitcoin network, indicates it will re-enable connected miners...
How the Magic of IBLTs Could Boost Bitcoin’s Decentralization
Bitcoin requires decentralization of miners (or mining pools) and full nodes to achieve what some consider its core property: censorship resistance. As such,...
Updated: Major Mining Pools Make a Stand Against Bitcoin XT Fork, Support for BIP 100 Grows
It has been little over a week since Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen included Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 101 (BIP 101) into the alternative Bitcoin...
Former Qualcomm Engineer on the Future of Bitcoin Mining: Decentralize the Pools
There are plenty of people who believe they can predict the future of Bitcoin, but no one can really say for sure what will...
Network Visibility Product Incorporates Bitcoin Pooled Mining Detection
Bitcoin is gaining popularity. Although the price has declined, people are still asking about and joining the ‘mining frenzy’ with increasingly capable hardware. In...