Mining

Mining

Bitcoin Miners Send Message at Fidelity: We Run on Clean Energy, Not Dirty Coal

Bitcoin miners made the case for their industry as a driver of clean energy adoption, rather than an ecological disaster, at Fidelity’s Mining Summit.

Markets  ·  7 May 2019
China

Bitcoin Mining’s New Bidding War

The cost of secondhand cryptocurrency mining equipment in China has nearly doubled in the last few weeks in response to bitcoin’s price jump.

Business  ·  3 May 2019
Mining

Bitcoin Can’t Fix Venezuela: I Should Know

Diana Aguilar used bitcoin to survive in Venezuela, but cryptocurrency can’t fix the troubled nation's economy, she argues.

Markets  ·  2 May 2019
Ethereum

Funding Approved for Audit of Ethereum’s ProgPoW Mining Proposal

Funding has been raised to conduct a technical audit over "ProgPoW" – a hotly-debated proposal to change ethereum's mining algorithm.

Markets  ·  26 April 2019
Ethereum

Vitalik Proposal Could Turn Ethereum Staking Into $160 Million Industry

Ethereum researchers are currently discussing the optimal reward issuance rates for a new version of the network called ethereum 2.0.

Tech  ·  26 April 2019
Europe

Bitfury, Swiss Investment Firm Launch Regulated Bitcoin Mining Fund

Bitfury and Swiss investment firm Final Frontier have launched a bitcoin mining fund after it was authorized by an EU regulator.

Business  ·  24 April 2019
Mining

Grin Cryptocurrency to Discuss Change to Mining Difficulty Schedule

Grin developers are discussing potential changes to the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency's difficulty schedule.

Tech  ·  26 March 2019
Japan

SBI Holdings Latest Crypto Venture Will See It Make Mining Chips

Japan's SBI Holdings has teamed with an unnamed “large” semiconductor firm in the U.S. to make crypto mining chips and systems.

Business  ·  22 March 2019
Bitcoin

Bitmain Set to Deploy $80 Million Worth of Bitcoin Miners, Sources Say

Bitmain, the largest manufacturer of crypto mining equipment, is scaling up its capacity to mine bitcoin itself.

Tech  ·  21 March 2019
Funding Rounds

Avalon Miner Maker Canaan Raises ‘Hundreds of Millions’ in New Funding

Canaan Creative, the maker of Avalon miners, has closed a significant funding round, valuing the firm at over $1 billion, according to a report.

Business  ·  12 March 2019
Ethereum

Mining Pool Splits $300K Ether Fee With Accidental Sender

Ethereum mining pool Sparkpool has verified the accidental sender of an unusually high miners' fee and agreed to split the amount.

Tech  ·  11 March 2019
Ethereum

Ethereum’s ProgPoW Proposal: An Expensive Game of Whack-a-Mole

Ethereum's ProgPoW proposal may appear to minimize the ASIC advantage, but it isn't as democratizing as claimed, argue Dovey Wan and Martina Long.

Tech  ·  11 March 2019
Ethereum

Ethereum Block Count Spikes as Difficulty Bomb Diffuses on Schedule

Block creation numbers on the ethereum blockchain are back on the rise after a successful roll out of the Constantinople and St. Petersburg hard forks.

Markets  ·  8 March 2019
China

Bitcoin Miners Are Investing Again, Expecting a Cheap Power Boom Soon

Bitcoin miners in China are betting that abundant water this summer will make their business profitable again.

Business  ·  5 March 2019
Mining

Electroneum Launches $80 Smartphone That Rewards Users With Crypto

Blockchain startup Electroneum has just launched a dirt-cheap Android smartphone that mines cryptocurrency in the cloud.

Tech  ·  26 February 2019