Mining

Coordinating Bitcoin Upgrades With Poolin's Alejandro De La Torre Watch this video on YouTube Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn The guest for this episode of Bitcoin In Asia is Alejandro De La Torre, vice president at Poolin. De La Torre and Poolin have launched taprootactivation.com to improve on...

The recent BTC run has borne good news for two important parts of the Bitcoin ecosystem — investors and miners.Data from on-chain tracking firm Glassnode shows miner revenues are back at pre-halving levels, i.e. before May 12 of this year. These are the same...

Top 2 Bitcoin mining pool Poolin wants Taproot, and hopes other pools do too.Update (November 18, 2020): AntPool and Luxor have also signaled their support on taprootactivation.com. With AntPool contributing roughly 11 percent of Bitcoin network hash power, this brings the total has power...

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. Most of these mining farms use China-based mining pools (pools whose headquarters and, perhaps,...

It’s the question every business asks at some point: How do I scale?But crypto mining isn’t just any other business and comes with its own set of scaling issues to consider. You can try scaling alone, but you’ll be spending more time tinkering with...

On August 28, 2020, oil and gas giant Equinor announced that it would be cutting its future flared gas volumes and bringing waste-gas to market by generating electricity and mining on the Bitcoin network. Equinor’s plans involve partnering with Denver-based firm Crusoe Energy Systems...

There has been much ado made recently over supposed seasonal mining fluctuations on the Bitcoin network. The narrative goes that, as the rainy season in China comes to a halt around the August to October timeframe each year, cheap and abundant hydroelectricity dries up. This...

2020 has become the year of the pandemic, and COVID-19 has affected nearly all reaches of life, including the cryptocurrency industry. To add to the uncertainty, right in the middle of the pandemic the Bitcoin halving occurred. We’ve seen hash rates and the price...

There have been many claims in recent years that bitcoin and the miners securing the network via SHA-256 proof of work use an unconscionable amount of energy. But what data are these claims based on, are the source calculations using flawed or sound approaches...

New Competition Shaping Bitcoin Mining’s Landscape: Bitcoin In Asia Watch this video on YouTube Always a sector to watch, the Bitcoin mining space is host to several narratives that are worth a closer look today, as fresh capital and competition enter the market. Among these are...