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The Bitcoin Cash network has experienced long wait times between mined blocks several times this month. Between 1-23 February, there were 59 blocks which took over an hour to be mined and interestinglThe post Bitcoin Cash mining pool BTC. origin »
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Antpool, the Bitcoin mining pool owned by hardware manufacturer Bitmain, has stopped mining Segregated Witness (‘SegWit’) blocks. A Question Of ‘Charity’? In a move which has sparked suspicion among cryptocurrency figures, data from the past seven days of block mining shows Bitmain mining blocks of under 1 megabyte – smaller than SegWit blocks mined by other pools.
2018-10-31 19:00 | |
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Bitcoin is the world’s first cryptocurrency and the most dominant one too. Bitcoin accounts for around 50 percent of the total market capitalization of the world’s 2000+ digital coins. However, Bitcoin also introduced us to a new concept – cryptocurrency mining.
2018-10-31 18:29 | |
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With more than 4 million bitcoins left to mine, you might want to consider getting into mining bitcoin. Mining bitcoin involves verifying and adding transactions to the public ledger which is the blockchain, hence releasing new bitcoins into the system.
2018-10-30 14:06 | |
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Майнинговые пулы AntPool и BTC. com, оператором которых является крупнейший производитель оборудования для добычи криптовалют Bitmain, отвергают все SegWit-транзакции в сети биткоина. Об этом сообщает известный в сообществе трейдер WhalePanda со ссылкой на пользователей Reddit.
2018-10-30 11:42 | |
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Майнинговые пулы AntPool и BTC. com, оператором которых является крупнейший производитель оборудования для добычи криптовалют Bitmain, отвергают все SegWit-транзакции в сети биткоина. Об этом сообщает известный в сообществе трейдер WhalePanda со ссылкой на пользователей Reddit.
2018-10-30 11:08 | |
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All cryptocurrencies are created through mining. Mining is the process verifying transactions in a public ledger called a blockchain and new cryptocurrencies created. These transactions are assembled into blocks whereby the miner gets rewarded when he appends a block and solves various algorithms.
2018-10-31 13:35 | |
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In early-October 2018, reports detailing a rise in the number of empty blocks on the Ethereum blockchain came to light. Using data from the Ethereum network, data analytics firms, as well as media companies were able to confirm the presence of a disproportionately high number of blocks devoid of any data related to transactions sent over the network.
2018-10-18 17:00 | |
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Ben Kaiser from one of the most impressive universities in America, Princeton University and Alex Ledger from Florida International University have written a paper together on what China is impacting Bitcoin.
2018-10-12 08:00 | |
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Bitcoin, the world’s most sought-after cryptocurrency, could be at the wish and whim of Asia’s economic giant. A recent study titled “The Looming Threat of China: An Analysis of Chinese Influence on Bitcoin,” jointly researched by Princeton University and Florida International University researchers, suggests China’s mining scene has an overwhelming influence over Bitcoin, something that could invite network manipulation.
2018-10-11 00:29 | |
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Bitcoin miners have raised over $4. 7 billion in revenue so far this year, but rising electricity prices have rendered cryptocurrency mining almost completely unprofitable, even for the world’s biggest pools.
2018-10-9 15:33 | |
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Mining crypto is all about the money so why would miners leave transaction fee rewards on the table? The number of mined empty blocks has been increasing on the Ethereum blockchain at a steep rate – a 637% increase since September.
2018-10-8 22:34 | |
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Friday’s installment of our daily roundup investigates a weird mining trick that first surfaced on Bitcoin back in the day. It’s now being exploited on Ethereum. We also take a look at “Bitcoin populism” and consider the fate of crypto shills whose deleted tweets leave them no place to hide on an internet that never […] The post The Daily: Empty ETH Blocks, Bitcoin Populism, Crypto Flip-Floppers Exposed appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-10-5 13:20 | |
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Reports this week show that two mining pools, Etherdig and F2Pool, are publishing significant numbers of empty blocks and making a lot of money. While they’re not technically breaking any rules, their actions do present a security risk. Here's how they might be doing it.
2018-10-7 23:44 | |
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Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
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As controversies surrounding Bitmain’s looming IPO spell uncertainty for the future well-being of the mining goliath, competitors are fast to move in on the manufacturer’s territory.
2018-9-21 01:04 | |
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AntPool, one of the companies controlled by Bitmain, has decided to activate the so called AsicBoost. With this activation, the mining pool would mine Bitcoin in a more efficient way. The information has been revealed by the website AsicBoost Block Explorer.
2018-9-7 05:47 | |
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New evidence suggests that Bitmain controlled AntPool has activated a controversial hack on its mining operations. The AsicBoost hack supposedly gives a 20% efficiency boost when mining. The Big Reveal Tracking website, AsicBoost Block Explorer, identified that block #530042 was indeed mined by AntPool using the technology.
2018-9-6 19:00 | |
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It looks like one of Bitcoin’s premier mining pools, AntPool, has activated AsicBoost on its mining operations. AsicBoost purportedly increases mining efficiency by up to 20 percent, making its usage very controversial.
2018-9-6 19:10 | |
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A tweet from Bitcoin’s self-proclaimed creator Craig Wright has got the entire cryptocurrency community turning to calculators. Wright took to Twitter to posit that cryptocurrency mining pools that can’t mine blocks of 32MB – which even a 56K modem could handle – “deserve to be bankrupt.
2018-8-29 18:14 | |
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Japanese internet giant GMO has switched its entire mining capacity from Bitcoin Cash (BCH) to Bitcoin (BTC) as of July 2018. GMO Mines 568 Bitcoin Blocks In July A copy of the company’s monthly mining report uploaded to social media by cryptocurrency business investor Trace Meyer confirms that in July, GMO mined 568 Bitcoin blocks and 0 Bitcoin Cash blocks.
2018-8-24 19:00 | |
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Based on five-year-old research, Bitcoin enthusiasts and critics alike have often held that Satoshi Nakamoto originally mined some 1,000,000 bitcoin in the early days of the network.
2018-8-24 01:05 | |
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Over the last year, SHA-256 mining, the process that’s used to find blocks on both the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Core (BTC) networks, alongside a slew of other cryptocurrencies, has grown exponentially.
2018-8-20 23:40 | |
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Over the weekend, information surfaced that could suggest that mining giant Bitmain may be facing an uphill battle as it looks to launch an IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
2018-8-15 00:47 | |
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A City in New York Blocks Mining Operations for Cryptocurrency to Preserve Energy Mining expeditions have been becoming fewer and farther between lately, which has been largely due to the electricity spent for mining efforts that had not been properly evaluated.
2018-8-12 03:02 | |
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Chinese mining company Bitmain has announced it is exploring new policies that will boost the company’s transparency and communication with the cryptocurrency community.
2018-7-26 19:33 | |
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Although the ideas behind the current Ethereum protocol have largely been stable for two years, Ethereum did not emerge all at once, in its current conception and fully formed. Before the blockchain has launched, the protocol went through a number of significant evolutions and design decisions.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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HashFlare Has Blocked Small User Withdrawals HashFlare appears to be holding funds hostage via a combination of inefficient mining and an increased user withdrawal threshold. Those who purchase HashFlare mining contracts have seen the funds and mined crypto coins locked up.
2018-7-19 23:47 | |
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HashFlare holds user funds hostage, through a combination of inefficient mining and a newly increased withdrawal threshold.
2018-7-17 13:35 | |
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The Bitcoin mining power has been erratic over the past few days, at one point extending block time.
2018-7-16 13:19 | |
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Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away.
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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Recent Bitcoin block data shows that Bitcoin’s mining pools BTC. com, AntPool and ConnectBTC, respectively mined about 25. 7 percent, 16. 1 percent and 0. 2 percent of all new blocks over the past week.
2018-6-29 23:07 | |
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In a non-binding agreement, BTCC Pool Limited — the mining operation of former Chinese exchange BTCChina — agreed to sell a 49% stake of its Bitcoin mining pool. With 4. 55% of all Bitcoin blocks in the last year, BTCC’s operation is effectively the 7th most successful BTC mining pool in the world.
2018-6-26 18:00 | |
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Mining pools controlled by the largest Chinese ASIC miners producer Bitmain, mined more than 42% of bitcoin blocks last week, and their share in the network hashrate is growing, making a '51% attack' on bitcoin more real.
2018-6-26 22:14 | |
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Chinese crypto mining giant, Bitmain, has mined over 42% of all Bitcoin blocks recently giving rise to fears that the company could soon have control over the 51% threshold necessary for a network attack.
2018-6-25 15:14 | |
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Bitcoin Mining giant Bitmain has mined 42% of all Bitcoin blocks this past week, steadily moving closer to controlling a majority 51% of th network hash rate. Bitmain Moves Closer to 51% ASIC manufacturer and cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain — claimed 42% of the total blocks found on the Bitcoin network from the past week.
2018-6-24 20:00 | |
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The last 24 hours marked another major decrease in BCH price as it dropped to $300. It has found support above this level, but there’s no assurance if it will hold for long in the latest down surge.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) remains well below its all-time high and continues to hover within an accumulation range that goes back seven years. In recent trading, BCH has struggled to break higher and formed a descending triangle following rejection around $640 in early December.
The cryptocurrency market experiences positive sentiments as Bitcoin nears $100K after topping $97K. Amidst the bullish trends, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) surpassed the $10 billion market cap after significant 24-hour surges.
Bitcoin Cash price rallied alongside Bitcoin (BTC) in recent weeks, rising from lows of $321 earlier this month to hit $488 across exchanges. The level is the highest for BCH price since early June, when the altcoin fell below $500.
Bitcoin Cash price started a major increase above the $350 resistance. BCH is consolidating and might aim for more gains above the $385 resistance. Bitcoin cash price started a fresh increase above the $350 level.
Since August’s recovery, Bitcoin Cash BCH found it difficult to break lower as it reestablished support with a slight bounce. It appeared strong on the day following a 15% surge since the start of the week.
Cryptocurrencies are registering an uptick as the market reacts to the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut on September 18. After topping $61. 2k on Tuesday, BTC slipped back under $60k as market jitters resumed.