Brave New Coin Weekly Bitcoin halving countdown update: 16th April
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: 9th April
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: 3rd April
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: 25th 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: 19th 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: 12th 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: 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.
Blockstream launches Bitcoin mining solution
Leading Bitcoin company Blockstream has announced the launch of a mining infrastructure-as-a-service solution based in Quebec.
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.
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 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.
