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.
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 ...
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 ...
Back in the time when Bitcoin was just invented, the purpose of mining pools was simply: to combine hashrate and share block rewards. When it came to things like wallet management, asset storage, ...
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, ...
Foundry Digital, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, announced today that it is seeking institutional businesses that want to participate in bitcoin mining to participate in its Foundry USA Pool, ...
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 ...
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, ...