Mining

Bitcoin’s underlying computer network is the largest, most sophisticated computerized system in the world with working units in almost every part of the globe, from China to Kazakhstan to Venezuela to the U.S. And with recent all-time highs in hash rate and difficulty level, the...

The Bitcoin industry has not been spared from the ill-economic effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.According to a recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Bitcoin mining giant Ebang reported a 50% drop in its revenue for the first half of 2020,...

Bitcoin miners have successfully survived the 2020 Halving and COVID-19, and the network is now seeing some of its highest hash rates ever as these operations power up new equipment and reach new levels of decentralization going into the second decade of bitcoin mining.Bitcoin...

Miners on the Bitcoin network are facing the highest difficulty they ever have to generate new blocks, data shows.Network difficulty has surged to an all-time high amidst massive interest in the crypto space. However, it also means retail miners, hobbyists, and small-scale firms have...

The Chinese state does not present a long-term threat to Bitcoin, a well-known developer wrote in a blog this week.To read the rest of this article, join CryptoSlate Edge. Have an account? Sign In. Join CryptoSlate Edge for in-depth market analysis and curated industry insights Sign...

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CryptoSlate recently sat down with Ethan Vera, the CFO of Luxor Mining Pool and a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs. At Goldman Sachs, he worked on the firm’s blockchain team.We talked about a number of subjects, including Bitcoin mining centralization, how money printing...

The success of Bitcoin ultimately depends on the health of its mining industry. Bitcoin mining is central to transaction validation, the prevention of double spending and the hard cap on the bitcoin supply — basically, the things that make Bitcoin the revolutionary technology that...

In June, $2 trillion asset manager Fidelity Investments published a report on institutional investment in the Bitcoin and crypto industry.The Wall Street giant found that “digital assets are gaining in favorability and appeal amongst institutional investors, with almost 80% of investors surveyed finding something...

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty saw a 10 percent upward adjustment today, causing hash rates to reach a historic all-time high of 17 trillion.Changes in mining difficulty alter the environment for Bitcoin miners, causing many to either leave the business or purchase better rigs to continue.The...