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Projects for Two Mining Pools Under Development in Russia

Russia Developing Own Mining PoolsThe Russian crypto association is working on two projects to create mining pools offering better conditions to the local mining companies. The industry has seen robust growth with an estimated 70,000 enterprises currently operating in the field, according to the organization. Miners are taking advantage of the cheap electrical energy produced in Russia. Many companies […]

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September 9, 2018 0

80% of the 21 Million Bitcoins Have Been Mined Into Existence

80% of the 21 Million Bitcoins Have Been Mined Into ExistenceThis week cryptocurrency miners had processed the 17 million coins across both Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Core (BTC) networks, marking a great milestone within the history of blockchain technology. Now there are only 4Mn BCH and BTC left to mine but it’s still a very long time away until the very last coins are […]

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April 27, 2018 0

Bitcoin Cash Miners Process Big Blocks Past 24h – Volume Approaches Litecoin

Bitcoin Cash Miners Process Big Blocks Past 24h - Volume Approaches LitecoinAbout 24-hours ago bitcoin cash (BCH) miners were processing a ton of large blocks between 2-8MB in size. Fees have remained considerably low, and the bitcoin cash daily transaction volume is nearing the same amount of transactions as the litecoin network. Also read: Japan’s DMM Bitcoin Exchange Opens for Business With 7 Cryptocurrencies Bitcoin Cash Miners […]

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January 14, 2018 0

Bitcoin Gold’s Confusing Mainnet Launch Has a Rough Start

Bitcoin Gold's Confusing Mainnet Launch Has a Rough StartOn November 12, the Bitcoin Gold network went live at 4 pm EDT according to the team’s blog page and Slack channel. The controversial project currently has a full node client, but public mining didn’t start until private miners reached block height 499407. Also read: Swedish Pirate Rick Falkvinge Brings Humor and Profundity to Bitcoin Cash […]

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November 13, 2017 0

F2 Pool May Pull Hashrate Support Away From Segwit2x

Lately, there’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the Segwit2x proposal’s upcoming November hard fork. According to reports, the mining organization F2 Pool doesn’t support the 2MB fork, and the pool has also stated it hasn’t been running the BTC1 code. Also read: An Inside Look at Kim Dotcom’s Upcoming Bitcache and K.im Platform F2 Pool […]

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September 1, 2017 0

Bitcoin Cash Network Turns One Month Old and Continues to Move Forward

The bitcoin fork on August 1, which produced the cryptocurrency and network Bitcoin Cash (BCH), turns one month old today Friday. The digital currency’s market value is lower than last week and the network’s hashrate has dropped considerably, as it is currently more profitable to mine the legacy chain. Also Read: Now Bitcore Nodes Can Switch […]

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September 1, 2017 0

Bitcoin Cash Becomes the Longest Chain As Miners Toggle Between Profits

The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network is almost a month old and seemingly growing stronger as the days continue. As of August 22, the BCH chain is longer than BTC’s blockchain by 959 blocks, while also capturing the most hashrate that day for a short period of time. Also read: SEC Suspends Trading of Bitcoin Firm’s Shares […]

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August 25, 2017 0

Bitcoin Cash Mining Difficulty Drops Significantly – Speeding Up The Chain

On Sunday, August 20, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network dropped its mining difficulty another notch down to 7 percent of BTC’s difficulty, on block 479808. Since then another mining pool has joined in on processing blocks on the BCH chain as the mining pool BTC.com has found its first block on the network. Also read: World’s […]

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August 20, 2017 0