2019-12-14 23:28 |
For all of bitcoin’s promise of being the world’s first decentralized, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency, 65 percent of the total hash power resides in China, according to a recent report by CoinShares Research. origin »
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The Litecoin (LTC) network hash power hit nearly 380 TH/s on May 25, 2019, exceeding hash power from January 2018 and bringing it to its ATH. The cryptocurrency is a little over 70 days away from its halvening and is surging in terms of hashrate and the number of transactions.
2019-5-28 01:00 | |
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Hackers are still one of the biggest threats to Proof-of-Work networks. In the past year, digital thieves have used rented hash power to stage successful attacks on Vertcoin, Verge , Bitcoin Gold, Ethereum Classic, and several other cryptocurrencies, most of which have never recovered.
2019-5-24 02:01 | |
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Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain has less positive news as bitcoin price reclaims $6000 and the hash rate continues its steady climb. Its internal mining operations show a reduction of 88% of hash power in the past month.
2019-5-9 13:00 | |
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Bitmain Had A Drop Of 88% In Its Own BTC Mining Power You may remember the time in which Bitmain was the king of the crypto market. That time is past now. According to recent reports, the internal mining operations of the company are down by 88%.
2019-5-8 01:34 | |
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The Bitcoin hash rate has climbed to its highest level since late October 2018 as the BTC spot price looks to break $5,800. Bitcoin Hash Rate Reaches 4th-Highest-Ever Level Data from Blockchain.
2019-5-3 20:00 | |
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The integrity of Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BitcoinSV) remains in question, as one group of cryptocurrency miners approaches control of the network‘s hash rate. Calvin Ayre’s CoinGeek has become BitcoinSV’s primary mining pool.
2019-4-26 17:56 | |
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The recent bitcoin rally has driven bitcoin mining profits. Profits earned from bitcoin mining have seen a clear rise since the start of April 2019 and hit a near half-a-year high on April 15, 2019.
2019-4-23 19:35 | |
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Litecoin prices trending higher Hash rate around ATHs at 347 TH/s against 359 TH/s The direct correlation of hash rate with prices means Litecoin network is secure as miners funnel their computing power searching for profit.
2019-4-15 20:00 | |
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According to Litecoin.com and the data published by BitInfoCharts, the hash rate of Litecoin (LTC) achieved a new all-time high on April 8 at 359 terahash. The rapid increase in the hash rate of the Litecoin blockchain network, which represents computing power that protects and secures the protocol, comes amidst the demonstration of a strong […] The post Litecoin (LTC) hash rate hits record high: is it a crucial sign of confidence? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-4-15 00:40 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Chloe Jiang. Bitmain, the world’s largest bitcoin miner manufacturer, has announced specifications for its Antminer 17 series machines, which will be globally available on April 9, 2019.
2019-4-9 20:14 | |
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This infographic provides a schematic overview of the main Bitcoin-related “forks” that can happen and shows the most important forks that have happened. It does not provide an overview of all forks that have happened.
2019-4-8 18:08 | |
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SBI Holdings, a major financial and banking giant in Japan, has formally announced the launch of SBI Mining Chip Co. , Ltd. , officially entering the bitcoin mining industry. In recent months, the most dominant forces in the global bitcoin mining industry in the likes of Bitmain, Cannan, and Japanese internet conglomerate GMO have struggled to adjust to market conditions.
2019-3-23 20:45 | |
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An self-styled cryptocurrency mining company from Luxembourg has fielded multiple scam accusations after it emerged its executives do not exist. Critics Say OnMiners Claims Too Good to Be True OnMiners, which purports to produce three mining rigs with vastly superior hash power to market competitors, used stock photos and likely fake names for its leadership on its website.
2019-3-20 14:00 | |
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Bitcoin hash rate, the computing power securing the network, has reached levels not seen since early November 2018. Bitcoin Hash Rate May Have ‘Bottomed’ March 19th saw the Bitcoin hash rate surge past 52 quintillion hashes per second according to data from Blockchain.
2019-3-20 12:00 | |
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Китайская компания Bitmain представила новый майнер для анонимной криптовалюты Zcash, вычислительные мощности которого, по словам производителя, в 3 раза превышают показатели своего предшественника.
2019-3-19 12:56 | |
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What is merged mining? Merged mining is a process of mining two cryptocurrencies with a same algorithm simultaneously. This allows the miner to direct his hashing power into mining two cryptocurrencies at once, resulting in higher hash rates for both of them.
2019-2-28 09:08 | |
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The Constantinople hard fork in getting closer and closer to happening after being postponed due to a bug in the update. In response to this, the mining hash rate is declining by the day as miners await the hard fork.
2019-2-25 17:14 | |
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As if Bitmain’s year hasn’t been rough enough, having posted big losses and laying off entire departments, its flagship product now has a firmware vulnerability. A few weeks ago, Bitcoin Core contributor James Hilliard discovered an exploit in Bitmain’s S15 firmware.
2019-2-21 23:44 | |
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Whilst debate raged throughout the Bitcoin community over whether the block size limit should be increased and how, Luke-jr for years stood out for arguing the exact opposite position.
2019-2-15 19:18 | |
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NiceHash Invites Smaller Crypto Miners To Join Them For Hash Power That Could Defend The Community Against A 51% Attack Last month, a Reddit user pointed out an interesting fact – DASH’s hash rate is over 70% powered by NiceHash.
2019-2-12 00:37 | |
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Blockchain startup Blockstack has revealed the company is in the midst of developing a new distributed ledger protocol called Stacks, a chain that leverages the hash power from the Bitcoin Core (BTC) network.
2019-2-3 03:17 | |
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The blockchain organization Bloq Labs has introduced a beta version of a new software suite for cryptocurrency miners called Titan. Bloq co-founder Jeff Garzik announced the project at the recent Binance conference in Singapore and claims the protocol can maximize a mining machine’s hashrate by double digits with thoughtful configuration and dynamic adjustment.
2019-1-27 20:20 | |
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BatMine will build the most efficient crypto mine up to date. 4 cents per KW mostly green energy in a country of an optimal mining climate, up to 55 TH/s and the option to switch between currencies.
2019-1-26 17:03 | |
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BloqLabs has opened up the beta waitlist for Titan, a fully integrated software suite for managing cryptocurrency mining. The project was introduced by Bloq CEO and co-founder Jeff Garzik onstage during a brief speech at Binance Fair in Singapore in an overview discussion of BloqLabs.
2019-1-24 20:20 | |
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One problem that concerns many is the centralization of mining within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Fortunately, there are talented developers working to solve this problem and Matt Corallo, full-time Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, is one of them.
2019-1-26 23:50 | |
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Whenever I claim that bitcoin is the only decentralized cryptocurrency, I get one of two arguments:My X coin is also decentralized. Bitcoin isn’t decentralized because of Core and/or miners.
2019-1-21 21:52 | |
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Ethereum Classic, one of the most popular forks of the second most valuable cryptocurrencies by marketcap has suffered a 51-percent attack. After Chinese blockchain security firm SlowMist raised the alarm, an analyst at CoinNess dug a little deeper.
2019-1-8 13:34 | |
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The two largest Bitcoin mining pools, BTC. com and Antpool, have lost a large chunk of their hash power over the crypto winter. The two Bitmain owned pools signaled the mining market’s implosion, culminating in Bitmain laying off 50 percent of its workforce.
2019-1-3 12:41 | |
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A few days ago, the virtual currency Vertcoin (VTC) experienced a 51% attack in which a miner (or a group of miners) controlled more than half of the network hash power. This allowed attackers to conduct multiple attacks and double spend some funds.
2018-12-11 03:35 | |
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Bitcoin Cash has continued its decline and has broken below support at $150 and formed a new low around $135. The catalyst for the decline was a hard fork which took place mid-November. The hard fork resulted in a battle for hash power taking place between Bitcoin Cash and the hard forked Bitcoin Cash SV.
2018-12-5 18:44 | |
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As the market continues to tumble (and mining profits have dwindled), Bitcoin’s mining difficulty dropped by its largest percentile in seven years — the second largest downward correction in the cryptocurrency’s lifetime.
2018-12-4 01:01 | |
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Marketwatch published an op-ed by Atulya Sarin, a professor of finance at Santa Clara University. In this biased and error-packed piece, professor Sarin bases his bitcoin is soon to be dead assumption on the decreased mining profitability.
2018-12-4 23:40 | |
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The hard fork of the Bitcoin Cash protocol has ended up being detrimental to price. The hard fork resulted in a battle for hash power taking place between Bitcoin Cash and the hard forked Bitcoin Cash SV.
2018-12-3 19:29 | |
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One of the most direct ways to own Bitcoin is through mining, but that comes with some costs in terms of power and time. When the network’s hashing power increases, mining difficulty also increases since a surge in hash rate indicates an influx of miners on the network.
2018-12-1 19:18 | |
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The controversial hard fork which took place last week has taken key resources from Bitcoin Cash. Some hash power supporting the project has left to support the hard forked Bitcoin Cash SV. The price is reflecting this and currently trades close to $200 on many exchanges after trading above $600 about a week prior to […] Bitcoin Cash [BCH] Briefly Drops in Market Cap Rankings was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.
2018-11-23 17:54 | |
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Bitcoin has experienced perhaps one of the worst few weeks in a long time, with its price declining over 30 percent from its steady $6,000 to a low of nearly $4,000. Some believe that hash power had to do with the decline, especially because it was delegated to the BCH chain. The chain has seen […]
2018-11-23 15:24 | |
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There was a major public sensation as eyes were fixed on the Bitcoin Cash network over the latter part of this week. This was because of the blockchain split which took place, breaking it into two after the last common block was discovered within the chain, spanning an overall height of 556766. As of right […]
2018-11-20 10:56 | |
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CoinSpeaker Bitcoin. com Mining Pool Provides All Hash Power to Secure the Bitcoin Cash ABC Network Recent Bitcoin Cash hard fork split the whole crypto community into two warring camps trying to gain the dominance over the hash power of the network.
2018-11-19 11:41 | |
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CoinSpeaker Post BCH Hard Fork Scenes: Bitcoin Cash ABC vs Bitcoin Cash SV As both camps engage in the war for gaining dominance over the hash power, here a look into how things have turned so far.
2018-11-19 08:13 | |
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Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins: “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCH ABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV” (BCH SV).
2018-11-17 02:13 | |
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Latest Litecoin News In proof-of-work networks, hash is everything. Because of this, Coinmine is desirous of complete decentralization in line with blockchain dicta. As such, the startup with backing from CoinBase and Arrington Ventures is taking crypto mining to homes as their flagship rig—Coinmine One is power efficient—at 120 watts, easy to use—it has its.
2018-11-16 12:20 | |
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Bitcoin Cash’s controversial chain split scheduled for today has been activated at block number 556,766. Around three hours after the split, it appears that one of the main instigators of the fork is struggling to keep pace with the mighty combined hash rate of Bitcoin.
2018-11-16 00:00 | |
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Bitcoin cash's ongoing hash war remains lopsided, with mining pools supporting Bitcoin SV controlling nearly 75 percent of the current network.
2018-11-15 18:40 | |
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Bitcoin cash's ongoing hash war remains lopsided, with mining pools supporting Bitcoin SV controlling nearly 75 percent of the current network.
2018-11-15 18:40 | |
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CoinSpeaker After BCH Hard Fork: The Hash War Might Result Into Detrimental Outcomes Here's a look into some of the possibilities post the BCH hard fork and what can happen if Bitcoin SV manages to occupy the majority hash power.
2018-11-15 16:24 | |
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The Bitcoin Cash Hash war is about to come to an end, for good or ill. Right now, it looks like Craig Wright is in the lead. Unless something changes soon, Craig Wright and his allies seem to control most of the hashing power and will dictate the rules after the Bitcoin Cash fork tomorrow.
2018-11-15 00:14 | |
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The fast-approaching BCH hard fork has shaken up the crypto community as there are indications that miners might be taking different paths than previously stated. Bitcoin Cash SV is the leading proposition, with support from more than 61% of all mining power.
2018-11-14 19:30 | |
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Over the past day, bitcoin cash mining pools supporting Craig Wright's Bitcoin SV have consolidated even more of the relative amount of hash power.
2018-11-13 20:00 | |
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Over the past day, bitcoin cash mining pools supporting Craig Wright's Bitcoin SV have consolidated even more of the relative amount of hash power.
2018-11-14 20:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Bit Mining Global and Bitcoin. com Achieved a Business Partnership, Together to Accelerate GlobalizationOn June 14, 2019, a cooperative MOU signing ceremony between Bit Mining Global and Bitcoin.