Bitmain Rushes to Deploy 90,000 Antminer S9 Miners in Xinjiang as Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Looms

Nov 8, 2018

With the Bitcoin Cash(BCH)hard fork 7 days way, the two opposing camps---Bitcoin ABC and nChain---are moving forward with their plans. Bitmain, the world’s biggest maker of cryptocurrency hardware and the loyal proponent of Bitcoin ABC, is expediting the deployment of roughly...

As Bitcoin Cash Fork Approaches, Both Jihan Wu and TSMC Denied the Rumor About Bitmain’s Debt Problem

Nov 6, 2018

As the Bitcoin Cash(BCH) hard fork which is scheduled on November 15th, the ongoing battle between Jihan Wu’s Bitcoin ABC developers and Craig Wright’s nChain sees a new turn with the former lashing out at Coingeek for its recent report about Bitmain’s debts. Coingeek has taken...

Lies, Misinformation as Bitcoin Cash Nov. 15 Fork Nears

Nov 5, 2018

What to believe is becoming increasingly difficult for several Bitcoin Cash (BCH) users as the network's top players send out confusing messages ahead of the proposed Nov. 15 hard fork. Forks are good to battle-test different ideas but unchecked allegations are deepening the BCH crisis. T...

Own Exchange, US Merchants Acceptance…So Much Coming for Bitcoin Cash

Oct 11, 2018

A lot seems to be in store for the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) ecosystem if recent comments by its founder, Roger Ver, are anything to go by though a section of the community still holds their 'see it to believe it' card. [caption id="attachment_29270" align="aligncenter" width="730"] BCH's Ro...

Bitcoin Upgrade Thwarts Irregular Double-Spending Bug

Sep 23, 2018

The importance of upgrading Bitcoin Core nodes to the latest version 0.16.3 has been emphasised following new information that the bug fixed in the update is more serious than it had been previously made to seem. [caption id="attachment_28250" align="aligncenter" width="1150"] Nodes that have...

Bitmain’s Antpool Sponsors the NBA Houston Rockets with BCH

Sep 20, 2018

AntPool, one of the world’s largest bitcoin mining pools, has been an official sponsor of the NBA Houston Rockets for the upcoming 2018-2019 season which kicks off in October, according to sources at Bitmain. Antpool employees and members of the Houston Rockets The sponsorship is...

Bitcoin Cash’s Rumoured Split: NChain Publishes Alpha Release, Announces New Pool

Aug 30, 2018

As the rumoured split on the Bitcoin Cash network continues to be peddled, NChain has published the alpha release of its Bitcoin SV codebase on Wednesday, Aug. 29 as a preview which it says is in request to miners and pool operators. Notable among its changes so far include its default ma...

Bitmain’s Worry Deepens Ahead of IPO

Aug 24, 2018

Investment research firm, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., has released a report suggesting that Bitmain, a leading crypto mining hardware manufacturer, is losing its edge - an estimated 85% of the market for crypto mining chips - over its competitors in terms of production. The analysts at...

Converse With CoinEx Founder Yang Haipo (Founder of ViaBTC): BitcoinCash Is The Better Bitcoin

Jan 3, 2018

BitcoinCash (BCH), a product of debate over bitcoin scaling solution, has actually made much progress since its birth four months ago in spite of its huge controversy. The newly founded BCH Fund was a great community support for BCH. As a nonprofit organization, its mandate is to pr...

Jack Liao, the Person Behind Bitcoin Gold Aims to Compete with Bitcoin Cash

Oct 16, 2017

Bitcoin Gold (BTG), another forked coin bearing the Bitcoin name is set to take place on October 25. Is it a good thing for the already divided Bitcoin family to have a new member? In this series, Jack Liao, CEO of Hong Kong mining firm LightningAsic talks about how they want to p...