Mining Pools


Tech

Bitcoin Mining Pool ViaBTC Sells 'Epic' First Post-Halving Sat for $2.13M

The pool mined the first block after last week's halving, winning an "epic" sat in the process.

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Markets

Hut 8 Joins Foundry’s Institutional Bitcoin Mining Pool With Over 14,000 Machines

Hut 8 plans to add another 5,000 ASICs to Foundry's pool by August.

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Tech

All Major Mining Pools Now Support Taproot, Bitcoin's Biggest Upgrade in Years

Binance Pool represents 11% of Bitcoin’s mining hashrate. Adding it to the “yes” column pushes mining pool support for Taproot to about 91%.

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Markets

OKEx Mining Pool Flatlines After 99.5% Hash Power Drop as Withdrawal Suspensions Spook Clients

The pool's hash power has dropped from 5,000 to barely 20 PH/s.

Blocks mined per month by OKEx's pool

Tech

Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Sees Largest Percentage Drop in 9 Years

Bitcoin's mining difficulty just recorded its largest percentage decrease since the advent of ASIC mining machines in late 2012.

Negative difficulty adjustments in Bitcoin's history

Markets

BitClub Programmer Admits Mining Scheme Stole $722M in Bitcoin

The Romanian programmer pleaded guilty to wire fraud and the offering and sale of unregistered securities.

Balaci’s testimony indicates that BitClub never ran the lucrative bitcoin mining pools it lured victim investors with. (Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin SV President Hits Out at Binance as Former Critic Becomes Top Miner

The new spat erupted after Binance's new pool became the biggest miner for BSV, despite the exchange delisting the token a year ago.

Jimmy Nguyen, Bitcoin Association President (Bitcoin Association)

Finance

Mining Pools Distribute $2.4M Transaction Fee After Flood of Phoney Refund Claims [Updated]

Mining pool Ethermine said it would never freeze transaction fees again.

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Tech

New Software Fix Offers Bitcoin Miners Increased Security

Startup Braiins has released the first functioning code for a new protocol designed to fix longstanding security problems with bitcoin mining pools.

Credit: Library of Congress

Finance

Binance Crypto Exchange Is Launching Its First Bitcoin Mining Pool

Binance has been offering "generous" referral bonuses for its new crypto mining pool.

(Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao/CoinDesk)

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