Category: Blockchain Mining

Litecoin’s creator Charlie Lee proposes mining pool donations as a solution to funding issues

For more than 10 years already, Bitcoin’s innovations have been pushed on all fronts: What are those improvements?

With cheap electricity and friendly regulation, is Central Asia the new promised land for crypto miners?

Computer giant Lenovo will operate a signing node on GoChain’s blockchain, using eco-friendly methods

A state-owned nuclear power plant in Russia may soon fuel a bitcoin mining hub.

Bitmain’s co-founder and biggest shareholder claims he is “firmly opposed to layoffs” at the firm after being ousted by current CEO Jihan Wu

Bitcoin’s hash rate reached record highs this week, amid rising prices and anticipation of the miner reward halving later this year.

Ethereum block time decreased by nearly 25% and daily block rewards increased by over 31%

Chinese mining ASIC producer Canaan plans to roll out machines based on 5-nanometer chips in Q1 2020

The legal dispute between bitcoin miner Ebang and Chinese public firm Wholeasy reflects the prolonged magnitude of last year’s market sell-off.

Hedging products for Canaan mining network becoming available in Jan, 2020

GSR and Interhash want to help crypto miners hedge their costs with a new series of derivatives products.

The MyKings botnet is aggressively propagating Monero mining malware concealed behind online content that includes Taylor Swift photos, researcher say

Research conducted by major crypto exchange binance suggests that the motivation driving Bitcoin SV miners is non-economic in nature

TikTok records the first viral Bitcoin video after the firm’s owner reportedly launched a blockchain-related venture in China

The Shenzhen Bao’An District Court in China has frozen $676,000 in assets of a Bitmain subsidiary

The arrest, noted by the Shenzhen Nanshan District Prosecutor on Dec. 12 and reported by business publication Caixin on Sunday, comes amid ongoing battles between mining giant Bitmain and MicroBT, which has been a rising competitor this year challenging Bitmain’s market dominance.

Crypto and blockchain adoption appears to be gathering steam in Central Asia

Chinese share of global hash rate hits a new record of 66% since 2017, a new study says

What is the Bitcoin halving that everyone is talking about? Will it drive the price up? Will miners stick with BTC? Learn all about the pre-scheduled event

If small mining facilities begin to capitulate by the year’s end, will BTC struggle to recover in the first quarter of 2020?

Ethereum set to hard fork to Istanbul within 1,000 blocks, or at approximately 23:30 UTC tonight

On another down day, we’re talking U.S. warnings on digital assets, a brief history of troubled but systemically important stablecoin “Tether”, and a look at the arms-race in blockchain mining technology.

Litecoin’s price plunge in recent months has whittled away the profitability of mining the cryptocurrency, leading to a shakeout among operators.

Kazakhstan’s lawmakers won’t be taxing crypto mining until the mined crypto is exchanged for fiat money, a report says