As bitcoin mining transitions from a small-scale operation to a large-scale industry, the balance between decentralization and centralization is becoming increasingly critical. In a recent discussion, ...

Miners need to be flexible to changes in the market, including global cultural differences and adversarial legal frameworks when countries ban Bitcoin. Mining pools are important to the Bitcoin ...

North American bitcoin mining farms all use mining pools to ensure steady block rewards, compiling hash power from miners operating remotely to compete with the industrialized farms based in China.

Major crypto mining pools including Binance Pool, F2pool, Poolin and ViaBTC are reporting connectivity problems, they said in their Telegram channels in the past 24 hours. The issue is caused by ...

Five of China's biggest mining pools — AntPool, F2Pool, BTCChina, BW Mining, and Huobi — have agreed to raise the block size limit to 8 MB. Five of China's biggest mining pools — AntPool, F2Pool, ...

Bitcoin mining is the backbone of the world's first cryptocurrency network. It is the mechanism which gives security, integrity, and constant operation to the Bitcoin blockchain. But with the passage ...

It is generally accepted that latency in block propagation is one of the bottlenecks for Bitcoin scaling. This is why many of Bitcoin’s most active developers and researchers have presented a series ...

Ransomware hackers have a new money-laundering trick: mining new coins to replace “tainted” ones, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said in a blog post on Thursday. The firm located 372 exchange ...

Ethereum miners have formed a cartel of sorts to thwart the implementation of a now contentious proposal – one they say cuts into their bottom line unfairly. “Don’t be a slave to your mining pool.

As bitcoin mining transitions from a small-scale operation to a large-scale industry, the balance between decentralization and centralization is becoming increasingly critical. In a recent discussion, ...