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Op Ed: Bitcoin Miners Consume A Reasonable Amount of Energy — And It’s All Worth It

We have all seen photos of large data centers hosting mining hardware built from specialized ASICs designed to solve the Bitcoin proof-of-work (a double...

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...

Giga Watt CEO: “We Desperately Need Balance of Power in the Mining Space”

Dave Carlson is a former Microsoft software engineer who discovered Bitcoin in 2010, a year after the system was launched by creator Satoshi Nakamoto....

The Increased Politicization of Bitcoin Mining Is a Distraction

One of the key narratives around Bitcoin has always been that it is a math-based, apolitical currency. In other words, the digital cash system...

Bitcoin Politics Seep into Altcoins: SegWit Adoption Slow Across the Board

Since most altcoins are based on Bitcoin’s codebase, upgrades to Bitcoin are often relatively easy to implement in altcoins. Indeed, as Segregated Witness (SegWit)...

Guest Post: Chain Splits and Resolutions

An often misunderstood topic is that of chain splits and how they are potentially resolved. With the recent proposal from Shaolinfry discussing User Activated...

How the Equihash Algorithm Could Democratize Zcash Mining

Mining centralization is probably one of the biggest challenges digital currencies face.Many of Bitcoin’s properties, such as censorship resistance and double-spend protection, rely to...

Venezuela Seems to Be Cracking Down on Bitcoin

It appears that the Venezuelan authorities have had enough of Bitcoin. Over the past two weeks, police in the Latin American country arrested eight...

Decline in Empty Blocks Has Increased Bitcoin’s Transaction Capacity

Empty blocks have turned into a controversial topic in the Bitcoin community over the past few months. This renewed attention on the topic has...

Toward the Moon: Genesis Mining Sends the First Bitcoin Into Space

Bitcoin has come a long way since it was first introduced to the cyberpunk world by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008, and now for the...
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