a publicly accessible bitcoin mining pool is offering an alternative for miners who want to choose their own, non-Bitmain-allocated hashing work. For the first time ever, a bitcoin mining pool has ...

ViaBTC, the mining pool that mined the first block after the Bitcoin halving on April 20, sold the "epic" satoshi it contained for 33.3 BTC ($2.13 million). An auction for the satoshi, or "sat ...

Bitcoin (BTC) mining is now in the hands of the few. Well-known mining pools have seized overwhelming power, which poses an existential threat to the world’s first digital asset. It’s the ...

The theory is down to more than a simple observation of the logo stamped on most mining cases. No, skeptics think that Bitmain’s pool itself — not just its machines — secretly creates the vast ...

You can participate in Bitcoin mining pools from your PC to mine Bitcoins, but the rewards earned are typically smaller than dedicated mining setups. However, mining Bitcoin with a PC is no longer ...

David Rodeck specializes in making insurance, investing, and financial planning understandable for readers. He has written for publications like AARP and Forbes Advisor, as well as major ...

Casey says several independent Bitcoin mining pools are actually proxies of AntPool. Casey proposes Bitcoin's pooled mining protocol Stratum V2 as a solution to this. Stratum V2 empowers miners, not ...

That is why most bitcoin miners today resort to using mining pools, facilitating the sharing of resources such as hardware and electricity. In bitcoin mining, only those with hi-tech computational ...