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Why Bitcoin Lottery Mining Has Better Odds Than the Powerball

Bitcoin lottery mining at home is growing in popularity. Have the bitcoin nerds discovered a new hack that beats the Powerball?

Developers Announce Stratum v2 Update For Decentralized Bitcoin Mining

The new update will enable the selection of transactions via a new sub-protocol and miners’ nodes.

DCG’s Bitcoin Mining Firm Foundry To Begin Charging Fees For Services

The largest mining pool by hash rate share will no longer offer its services for free, according to a notice sent to clients.

Bitcoin Hash Rate Hits All-Time High Behind Price Rise, Private Pools in China

Bitcoin’s hash rate hit an all-time high of 117 EH/s in early 2020. But the reasons why are more nuanced than “the halving.”

BTC.com’s Bitcoin Mining Pool Dominance Threatened by Poolin

BTC.com’s years-long first place position is threatened by rival bitcoin mining pool Poolin.

Bitmain Follows Industry Trend, Shutters Operations in Israel

Chinese-based cryptomining firm Bitmain is shutting down the operations of Bitmaintech Israel

Bitmain Nears 51 of Network Hash Rate: Why This Matters and Why It Doesn’t

Bitmain is nearing 51 dominance of Bitcoin's hash rate. But this near-majority control isn't exactly new.

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...

If There Is an Answer to Selfish Mining, Braiding Could Be It

Centralization of mining pools is often considered one of the biggest problems Bitcoin faces. Only a handful of pools typically control well over half...

Which Altcoins Are Implementing SegWit?

Segregated Witness (SegWit) — the proposed upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol developed by the Bitcoin Core developers — is still far from activation. Requiring 95...