Mining
Mining Pool Splits $300K Ether Fee With Accidental Sender
Ethereum mining pool Sparkpool has verified the accidental sender of an unusually high miners' fee and agreed to split the amount.
Ethereum's ProgPoW Proposal: An Expensive Game of Whack-a-Mole
Ethereum's ProgPoW proposal may appear to minimize the ASIC advantage, but it isn't as democratizing as claimed, argue Dovey Wan and Martina Long.
Ethereum Block Count Spikes as Difficulty Bomb Diffuses on Schedule
Block creation numbers on the ethereum blockchain are back on the rise after a successful roll out of the Constantinople and St. Petersburg hard forks.
Bitcoin Miners Are Investing Again, Expecting a Cheap Power Boom Soon
Bitcoin miners in China are betting that abundant water this summer will make their business profitable again.
Electroneum Launches $80 Smartphone That Rewards Users With Crypto
Blockchain startup Electroneum has just launched a dirt-cheap Android smartphone that mines cryptocurrency in the cloud.
Validators Create New Attack Vectors for Decentralized Systems
Bounty0x CMO Pascal Thellman discusses some of the potential security and incentives issues with validators on proof-of-stake networks.
51% Attacks for Rent : The Trouble with a Liquid Mining Market
As the global pool of hashing power grows more liquid, arbitrageurs may see a financial incentive in "rent-a-miner" attacks.
Sparkpool to Freeze Mysterious 2,100 Ether Mining Payout for Now
Mining pool Sparkpool says it's temporarily freezing an unusually high mining payout worth $300,000 in case it was sent in error.
Mining Giant Bitmain Posts $500 Million Loss in IPO Financial Filing
Cryptocurrency mining and manufacturing giant Bitmain lost about $500 million in the third quarter of 2018, CoinDesk has learned.
Bitmain Announces New, More Efficient 7nm Bitcoin Mining Chip
Bitmain Technologies has announced a new 7nm bitcoin mining processor that it says offers a big boost in energy efficiency.
