Mining

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

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...

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

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

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

Head First Mining is a trick proposed by former Bitcoin Core lead developer Gavin Andresen. With Head First Mining, miners don’t wait for the complete block to arrive before they start mining a subsequent block. Instead, they immediately mine on top of the block header as soon as they receive it, and also forward the header to other nodes. This obviously saves time.

A new chapter in Bitcoin history has begun with the successful 2016 Bitcoin halving.

The second so-called Bitcoin “block halving” is fast approaching. This week, as three-quarters of all bitcoins have been mined, the block subsidy will decrease...

BTCC Chief Operating Officer Samson Mow indicated that the leading Chinese mining pool and exchange supports an incremental increase of Bitcoin's block-size limit to...

Today ECUREX, a digital finance marketplace for professional traders and financial institutions headquartered in Zurich, is publishing a comprehensive 110-page report on digital currencies –...