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Bitmain’s Antminer S9SE Available for Purchase, Claimed to be More Profitable

Jun 18, 2019

On June 18, Bitmain, the world’s leading bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer, launched its latest mining model, the Antminer S9SE, which promises low-cost performance among its Antminer S series. The legacy that forever left its mark in the mining industry. Introducing a Special Edit...

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Bitmain Seeks Millions of Compensation from Former Emplayees Who Founded Rival Mining Pool

Jun 17, 2019

Bitmain, the owner of BTC.com, the world’s top bitcoin mining pool by hash rate, is suing the co-founders of Poolin, the seventh-largest pool, for allegedly violating a non-compete agreement – and it’s demanding $4.3 million in damages from one of them. In response, the co-founders said...

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F2Pool Founder Condemns Block Withholding Attacks Performed by Some Chinese Mining Pools on Its Competitors

Jun 14, 2019

Some Chinese crypto mining pools have been soliciting miners with low fees but later raised the rates up to 5% even 10%, said Mao Shixing, founder of world's third-largest bitcoin mining pool F2Pool, in a weibo post. He continued to point out that these malicious mining pools then use thei...

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Report: China Still Dominates Bitcoin Mining with 60% of Global Share

Jun 12, 2019

Sichuan, a mountainous province in southwestern China, is still home to the most bitcoin miners for its abundant and cheap hydroelectric energy, despite the country’s tough stance on quashing the crypto market. According to cryptocurrency research firm Coinshare’s latest report, China cont...

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Chinese Listed Companies in Bitcoin Mining Overseas: Partner or Predator?

May 29, 2019

Some Chinese listed companies have taken the bandwagon of bitcoin mining after the bitcoin bull run throughout 2017, either under the guise of cloud computing or providing mining hosting services, in an effort to bypass regulations considering the country’s tough stance on bitcoin. A recent r...

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MatPool to Run NEO Node, 2019 The Year of Staking Economy

May 24, 2019

There’s a concept in economics called the "Lotus Pond Effect" - suppose one day a lotus leaf emerges in the pond, the next day there are two, and on the third day there are four... till certain point, the lotus leaves will cover half the pond. After that day, the pond will be all covered with...

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Canaan Expects Its AI Business to Catch Up with Bitcoin Mining in Three Years

May 20, 2019

Canaan Creative, the world’s second-largest bitcoin mining machine manufacturer, is targeting to be a chip company instead of a bitcoin mining company. The company is attaching the same importance to AI chip business as bitcoin mining and aims to generate tens of millions of Chinese yuan in A...

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Jiang Zhuo’er: Attackers Conducted Abnormal Transactions on BCH to Mislead the Public that BCH Upgrade Failed

May 16, 2019

Bitcoin Cash blockchain faces glitch after the scheduled network upgrade on March 15, as it was noticed that the network was stuck without outputting any blocks after block 582680. The next block, after the update, took about half an hour to be mined. https://twitter.com/BitMEXResearch/s...

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Bitcoin Mining Hashrate Is Becoming More Decentralized As Small Pools Gains in Distribution

May 15, 2019

Bitcoin mining hashrate has been more distributed among mining pools, according to a report from cryptocurrency research firm Diar released on March 13. As per the report, smaller mining pools have made significant gains in the past few months as a result of unknown miners either drop off or ...

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Secondhand Crypto Mining Machines in China Doubled in Price, Overseas Miners are the Major Buyers

May 9, 2019

Crypto mining hardware vendors in China are delighted these days seeing the price of their secondhand mining machines doubled as a result of the recent bitcoin rally. In the eye of Zhang Xilin, a mining equipment vendor in Huaqiang North – China’s No.1 electronics street and world’s l...