Brave New Coin Weekly Bitcoin halving countdown update: 5th March
Brave New Coin has launched a countdown to predict the date and timing of the Bitcoin Halving. This weekly report summarizes the data provided by BNC's halving prediction models and analyzes the macro factors influencing the halving countdown.
Brave New Coin Weekly Bitcoin halving countdown update: 28th February
Brave New Coin has launched a countdown to predict the date and timing of the Bitcoin Halving. This weekly report summarizes the data provided by BNC's halving prediction models and analyzes the macro factors influencing the halving countdown.
Brave New Coin Weekly Bitcoin halving countdown update: 20th February
Brave New Coin has launched a countdown to predict the date and timing of the Bitcoin Halving. This weekly report summarizes the data provided by BNC's halving prediction models and analyzes the macro factors influencing the halving countdown.
Chinese mining giants file for IPO
After the bear market of 2018, Bitcoin has performed well in 2019. Two Chinese Bitcoin mining giants, Bitmain and Canaan, want to capitalize by taking the companies public.
Blockstream launches Bitcoin mining solution
Leading Bitcoin company Blockstream has announced the launch of a mining infrastructure-as-a-service solution based in Quebec.
Japanese startup launching 7 nm ‘Kamikaze’ mining chip
In a move targeting Bitmain’s manufacturing dominance in the world of ASIC chip production, Japanese start-up Triple-1 has announced the impending launch of its advanced 7 nm chip
Bitmain Technologies IPO intention disclosure
Disclosure detailing and confirming Bitmain Technologies Holding Company's intention to pursue an initial public offering on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
Should we think of Bitcoin as a store of energy?
Many criticize Bitcoin due to the power it consumes to mine, but rarely is it put in context of other industries and economic efficiency overall. Here we debunk some of the energy myths and look at whether we should look at Bitcoin as a store of energy as well as value.
GameCredits releases GShare crypto mining app
GameCredits has announced a desktop application that enables gamers to harness idle hardware and unused processing power to mine crypto in return for GAME tokens.
Blockstream vs miners – looking at the incentives around the SegWit2x fork
The past few months in the Bitcoin community have been filled with discussion of an upcoming hardfork - SegWit2x. There have been a lot of people voicing their opinion on the matter of whether that fork should be allowed to pass or not, but today I would like to look at who I believe to be two key players in this debate - Blockstream (opposing SegWit2x) and the miners, the core signatories of the New York Agreement. More specifically, I will be focusing on the incentives both of those parties have when it comes to dealing with SegWit2x.
Miners gaming the BCash emergency difficulty adjustment
Block 481124 has special meaning on both the Bitcoin and BCash chains this week. For Bitcoin, it will mark the point at which Segwit finally moves to active, bringing with it a capacity increase and the potential for massive off-chain scaling through solutions like Lightning Network. For BCash, it delivered the first increase in mining difficulty since it split from Bitcoin on August 1st. The week also saw the emergence of a new phenomenon on both networks , a back and forth movement of hash power as miners chased profit. To understand the effect of having two high profile SHA-256 based cryptocurrencies we need to look at how the two chains manage mining difficulty. This, along with the price of the coins and the fees brought in from transaction fees, determines how profitable their mining is.
The day I became an Ethereum miner
A born skeptic, truePTS CEO Zohar Hod says he was completely dubious of the Ethereum concept. He thought it was just another cryptocurrency in the high-tech wild west, full of gunslingers and no real potential for enterprise software applications. But after investing some time and doing some research, he says he’s hooked.
The mirage of miner centralization
Miner Centralization is hard to define. I present three unsatisfactory definitions, and discover a satisfying fourth (“the cost of the minimal viable mining operation”) along the way. Mostly it is just confusing.
Competitors SegWit and Extension Blocks make quick work of common threat ASICBoost
Bitcoin’s long-running block size debate has seen numerous challenges to the Bitcoin Core reference software, including Bitcoin Classic, Bitcoin XT, and Bitcoin Unlimited. Recently, a fourth contender has entered the ring, a browser-based Bitcoin node client from Purse, called bcoin.
Employee mined bitcoins on Federal Reserve servers for two years
The Federal Reserve Bank is the Central Bank of the United States and issuer of the US Dollar. However, wielding the power to print just one currency may not have been enough for one former employee.
Is Bitcoin at risk from miners leaving when the block reward is halved in July?
At the heart of Bitcoin is a process known as mining, adding transaction records to Bitcoin's public ledger. The ledger is made up of blocks of transactions linked in a chain, forming the widely touted technological breakthrough, the Blockchain.
