2023-7-6 12:10 |
The United Arab Emirates’ combined Bitcoin mining capacity is estimated to be around 400 megawatts or 4% of Bitcon’s global hash rate.
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Although Bitcoin is a decentralized technology, the mining of the cryptocurrency is somewhat centralized in China. Per some reports, around two-thirds of all mining machines are based in the country, concentrated in the river regions where electricity is cheap.
2020-8-19 06:00 | |
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The concept of using Proof of Stake (PoS) as an alternative to Proof of Work (PoW) for securing crypto networks has been around for a long time now. It was Sunny King and Scott Nadal who first proposed PoS in 2012 as a more energy-efficient solution than mining, which has traditionally been used to secure blockchains such as Bitcoin.
2020-7-23 11:44 | |
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Bitcoin price is stuck around $9,100, but the hash rate of the network is continuing its ascent since crashing after the block reward halving. The hashrate is yet again near the all-time high at around 130 Th/s after the jump in difficulty – the biggest since January 2018.
2020-7-1 21:17 | |
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Around 18 days ago, the Bitcoin protocol experienced it’s third block reward halving and the network saw a 33% hashrate loss. Since then, however, bitcoin miners have increased in both number and hashpower, as the network has seen a 15-20 exahash per second (EH/s) increase.
2020-5-30 01:10 | |
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After the bitcoin block reward halving on May 11, Glassnode.com statistics show the BTC hashrate is 90 EH/s or so on May 22. The overall SHA256 hashrate lost around 47 EH/s. Due to the electrical shortages, some mining machines have been forced to shut down to avoid more losses. From the image below, we can […]
2020-5-24 18:11 | |
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Following Bitcoin’s third halving to date, the network’s total hashrate has fallen by around 30 percent. The data comes courtesy of BTC network analysis firm CoinMetrics. io. The sudden loss of revenue for miners following the reduction in block reward will mean that some mining operations are no longer profitable.
2020-5-15 07:15 | |
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Following the third bitcoin halving on May 11, 2020, there’s been a big shift in mining pool distribution, as far as hashrate is concerned. At the time of publication, there’s around 100-115 exahash per second (EH/s) in search of bitcoin blocks and spectators have seen two relatively unknown mining pools join the top mining pool […] The post Bitcoin Network Sees a Massive Mining Pool Shift Following the Halving appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-5-15 22:30 | |
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Coinspeaker Third Bitcoin Halving Is Finally Here, BTC Hovering Around $8700 NowWith the latest Bitcoin halving, the BTC mining rewards have reduced from 12. 5 BTC to 6. 25 BTC. Since its last halving in 2016, the BTC price has appreciated 1200% so far until the third event.
2020-5-12 11:12 | |
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The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance has released a tool that shows the distribution of Bitcoin hashing power around the world. Whilst the data is far from perfect, it provides a clearer picture than ever into where the largest concentrations of mining operations are in both China and the rest of the planet.
2020-5-9 04:15 | |
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A Bitcoin Mining Map is launched by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) that allows checking the average monthly bitcoin hash rate produced by different countries around the globe. Based on the geolocation data (IP addresses) provided by Poolin, BTC.
2020-5-8 23:51 | |
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Bitcoin Cash had its block reward halving this week but there are concerns around hashrate and mining profitability.
2020-4-16 15:00 | |
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On or around May 13, the BTC network will see a block reward reduction as miners will go from getting 12. 5 coins per block to 6. 25 coins following the halving. The last time the protocol’s block reward halved was on July 9, 2016, and the global economy looked a whole lot different back then.
2020-3-25 16:35 | |
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The hashrate of the Bitcoin blockchain network barely flinched as the price of BTC plummeted to $3,600, by around 50 percent within a 24-hour span. It may indicate that big mining firms have not capitulated amidst the drop, going in line with theories put out by respected industry executives.
2020-3-15 11:10 | |
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Everybody knows that one day Bitcoin mining will eventually cease, and the last coin will be mined. The date for this is expected to be around the year 2140. So what could an investment of $100 now be worth in 120 years time? Bitcoin to the Moon To estimate the price of Bitcoin well into the future we need to take a look at growth models for the cryptocurrency. The two most well-known are Parabolic […]
2020-2-28 23:00 | |
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On February 7, the blockchain analytics provider Tradeblock published a report about the upcoming BTC reward halving. BTC’s block reward is expected to halve on or around May 12, 2020, and Tradeblock’s report estimates that the cost to mine BTC will be over $12,500 after the halving.
2020-2-16 22:45 | |
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North Korea is expanding its mining operations of privacy coin Monero (XMR), while the regime is trying its best to find a way around US and UN sanctions. In a recent report by cybersecurity company Recorded Future, it’s being said that the Monero network traffic originating from IP addresses belonging to North Korea have increased […]
2020-2-13 05:53 | |
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According to recent reports from Iran, the country’s government is reportedly making a move that will benefit crypto miners by granting them over 1,000 mining licenses. New development in Iran favors the crypto mining industry Governments around the world are making significant progress with regulating the crypto industry, especially with regards to overseeing crypto mining operations.
2020-1-27 15:55 | |
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On Jan. 22nd Bitcoin started dropping and today we went to nearly $8,200 level. Currently, we are hovering around $8,400 while managing the daily trading volume of $786 million, as per Messari. Just like price, the hash rate of the network is also staying around 118 Th/s, down from 126 Th/s on Jan. 17, the […]
2020-1-24 21:32 | |
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Bitcoin mining giant, Bitmain Technologies, is in the news again for something negative. This time around, there are reports that the bitcoin mining company is involved with a crypto Ponzi scheme, BitClub Network, causing the company to come under the radar of the U.
2020-1-23 00:00 | |
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Much of the conversation around predicting the price of Bitcoin through 2020 and beyond hinges on the effect of the Bitcoin mining reward halving set to take place in May will have. Some believe it will have no effect at all, while others are betting big on this.
2020-1-18 21:20 | |
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While many analysts predicted Bitcoin’s mining difficulty will rise around 8 percent, few believed it would continue to increase at the same pace in the days following the adjustment. According to data from CoinMetrics, the difficulty increased 7 percent after the adjustment, with the hash rate reaching an all-time high of 14.
2020-1-16 18:00 | |
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First Bitcoin Capital Corp. wants to unite the providers of bitcoin ATMs around the world.
2020-1-15 09:12 | |
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Bitcoin halving is expected to take place around May 2020 and it will prompt the inflation rate to decrease by ~1.7%. The halving will also result in the overall mining cost to become expensive, replaThe post Bitcoin cloud mining may not reflect a positive ROI post halving appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-10 20:00 | |
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Cryptojacking was rampant around the globe last year. By June 2019 in Southeast Asia, more than 20,000 MikroTik routers had been infected. Thanks to Operation Goldfish Alpha, Interpol reduced incidents of illicit crypto mining by 78% in just six months.
2020-1-9 19:00 | |
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According to recent estimates, bitcoin mining in 2020 is expected to take off at an explosive pace. Miners are predicted to mine around $3 billion worth of BTC as per the coin’s current price.
2019-12-21 12:06 | |
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With the Bitcoin mining reward halving about 150 days away, speculation still swirls as to what effect this important occurrence in Bitcoin’s ongoing existence will have on the market. Historically, mining reward halvings have usually contributed to rapid expansions in the BTC market, but this time around, there are many new developments to consider.
2019-12-19 00:15 | |
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New research shows that China’s dominance of the total Bitcoin hash rate continues to grow. The nation reportedly now accounts for around 66 percent of all the computing power supporting the Bitcoin network at present.
2019-12-12 01:00 | |
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Ethereum (ETH) may bring another round of staking enthusiasm if it moves forward to further replace mining in 2020. New Staking Projects Appeared in the Past Year Staking coins may come in fashion again, as passive income and slow growth replace previous highly speculative uses.
2019-12-1 23:42 | |
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The crypto markets continued to grind down this week. The price of market benchmark, Bitcoin, fell by almost 20% following an announcement from the PBoC stating that the Chinese government remains opposed to the risks around cryptocurrency investment.
2019-11-25 14:00 | |
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The entire structure around Bitcoin centers on mining and the rewards that these miners get for participating in the verification of transactions. The halving happens on a fairly consistent schedule, dropping the reward that miners receive for their actions.
2019-11-24 20:30 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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Coinspeaker China’s Bitcoin Mining Firm Canaan Manages to Raise Only $90 Million through IPOAs per its previous plans, Canaan was looking to raise anywhere around $400 million but fell short by 75% of its target.
2019-11-21 16:44 | |
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The average break even price of bitcoin mining is at around $8,000 and miners mining BTC at near breakeven price is an indicator of confidence.
2019-11-11 13:25 | |
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Litecoin, the famously named "silver to Bitcoin's gold," underwent its halving on 8 August 2019, following which the mining reward dropped from 25 LTC to 12.5 LTC. The price surge of PoW coins around The post Litecoin's halving: More of a curse than a blessing for miners, hodlers appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-10 15:30 | |
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Malaysian authorities have arrested five individuals in connection with the robbery of 85 Bitcoin mining units. The machines were taken from a shop in the town of Seremban on October 29. The units themselves were valued at around $10,000.
2019-11-7 01:00 | |
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China is set to allow cryptocurrency mining. The nation hosts the four largest mining pools around the world. The Chinese government is making significant steps towards the adoption of blockchain technology.
2019-11-6 13:18 | |
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When it comes to halving in the cryptocurrency world, the ecosystem's main concern revolves around the profitability of mining and its resultant effect on the token's price. Litecoin's creator was alsThe post Litecoin's 60% hashrate drop being balanced out by growing mining profitability appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-5 13:00 | |
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Genesis Mining has conducted a survey asking what the U. S. dollar is backed by. Apparently, around 30% of the U. S. public believes that the dollar is still backed by gold. The Bretton Woods system ended in 1971, and it was then that the convertibility of USD to gold was officially terminated.
2019-11-1 11:27 | |
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Will the price of bitcoin double or crash during the upcoming halving next year? And how will the mining industry adapt to their revenue stream being cut in half over night? See what professional miners from around the world have to say on the matter.
2019-11-1 06:30 | |
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A Russian company has decided to turn an aluminum plant into a crypto mining facility. The facility plans to take on China’s supremacy in bitcoin mining. If bitcoin manages to trade around $9,160, the Russian company estimates profits of up to $99 million per month.
2019-11-1 17:00 | |
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Bitcoin miners around the world are clearly optimistic about the future of cryptocurrency. A series of huge mining operations have come to light in past weeks, with the most recent being a 240 percent expansion of the UK-based Argo Blockchain company.
2019-10-31 14:20 | |
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A long-time Bitcoin bull with around $2.3 billion in net worth, Peter Thiel, is a good ally to have on your side if you plan on challenging China’s dominance in the global BTC mining industry. On that count, San Francisco-based Layer1 has scored a big win by raking in millions in funding from Thiel — […] The post Billionaire Bitcoin Bull Backs Fight Against Chinese Monopoly on BTC Mining appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2019-10-22 07:43 | |
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About every four years, the amount of Bitcoin created in the mining of a block gets cut in half. This is referred to as a ‘Halving. ’ Until now, there have been two such occasions, with the upcoming third estimated to occur around May 17, 2020.
2019-10-3 01:10 | |
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Videos have been circulating on Twitter showing a Bitcoin mining farm burning down. Around $10M was lost in the fire. Dovey Wan (@DoveyWan) is reporting that a major fire at a Bitcoin mining farm in China was captured on video.
2019-10-1 20:58 | |
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The Iranian government has steadily been putting pressure on local crypto-miners in the past three months thanks to new legislation in the works that would regulate cryptocurrency mining via licensing.
2019-9-30 20:30 | |
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Coinspeaker Crypto-based IoT Company ‘Helium’ Expands to 250 Cities Around the U. S. Helium, an IoT startup and crypto mining modem distributor, is expanding to more than 250 cities in the U.
2019-9-25 10:06 | |
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The total cumulative power of the computer systems mining the Bitcoin blockchain has plummeted by around 30 percent today. The sudden downtrend started just before the launch of the much anticipated Bakkt platform yesterday.
2019-9-25 01:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Industry Analysts and Experts Say: Bitcoin Price is in Front of a Massive MoveA couple of days ago, the price of Bitcoin failed to go past the $10,500 and now is heading for $10,000.
2019-9-16 12:39 | |
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Youch. On Saturday, Bitcoin (BTC) was subject to the umpteenth flash crash in the past few weeks. Within a few minutes’ time, the cryptocurrency had shed $500 — around 4. 5% — to lose the key support of $11,800.
2019-8-12 21:00 | |
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