Bitcoin mining difficulty just took a hit. Is this normal? And should investors be worried about the sudden hash rate drop?

Bitcoin-based protocols like Ordinals, Runes and BRC-20s will continue to boost transaction fees for miners faced with the “indisputable” impact of halving events every four or so years.

Bitcoin (BTC) has been a buzzword in financial circles for over a decade. It’s hailed as the future of money, a revolutionary digital currency that operates independently of central banks or ...

Bitcoin BTC/USD miners may heave a sigh of relief as the network ... The sentiment was echoed by Luxor mining pool CEO Nick Hansen who reportedly told Decrypt, "If there isn't enough margin for miners ...

Research indicates that even mining pools that appear to be separate are united at the hip. It is a pool of pools centralization says 0xB10C ...

A solo miner on the ckpool mining platform has validated a block on their own, netting the full 3.125 BTC block reward.

Alejandro De La Torre believes Bitcoin mining is dangerously centralized and plans to put power back into the hands of solo miners with DEMAND.

Due to the increasing competition among bitcoin miners, it is nearly impossible to solve a block alone with a single bitcoin mining rig – but one solo miner recently won the mining “lottery” and ...

This is why he started DEMAND, a Bitcoin mining pool that puts power back in the hands of independent Bitcoin miners. Before getting into how DEMAND works, though, it’s important to understand ...

One miner's perseverance in the face of the dominance of centralized mining firms and major mining pools has paid off.

The standard economic solution would be to measure that externality precisely and implement it through a price mechanism.