Mining

Récemment de retour dans les débats, les drivechains sont des chaines parallèles (sidechains) qui font reposer à la fois leur consensus de validation et leur two-way peg [1] sur les mineurs de la chaine principale. Elles utilisent le minage fusionné (merge mining) pour la validation des blocs, et le vote des mineurs pour le two-way peg. Tel qu’il existe aujourd’hui, le protocole Bitcoin ne permet pas la mise en place de drivechains. En 2017 Paul Sztorc a donc proposé deux...

Gideon Powell – the chief executive of Texas-based petroleum company Cholla Inc. – thinks bitcoin miners are revolutionary people that are bringing new levels of innovation to the U.S. Gideon Powell on What Makes BTC Miners Important In an interview, he said: Thinking about this from a capability standpoint, the ‘compute cowboys’ are unlocking new power markets for data centers and thinking about the future of industrial manufacturing. It’s all in its infancy....

Texas has garnered a reputation for being very pro crypto. The state opened its borders to several miners from China about two years ago after their home country announced in the summer of 2021 that crypto mining would no longer be permitted per new rules from Beijing. Texas Citizens Have Mining Concerns With nowhere to turn, many reverted their sights to the Lone Star State, admiring its many open lands and its cheap electricity prices. Not wanting to miss out on...

Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital Holdings announced producing 1,072 BTC in August, which represented a drop of 9% from the previous month due to extreme weather conditions in Texas. Despite the decrease in Bitcoin production, the figure is still five times more than in August of last year. Marathon’s Bitcoin Production: August Edition In its unaudited BTC production and miner installation updates for the month of August, Marathon Digital cited increased curtailment...

The leading cryptocurrency miner – Argo Blockchain – has reportedly decreased its debt to $75 million during the first half of the year. In comparison, it owed $143 million at the end of June 2022.  The company also managed to reduce overall costs and expenses. However, revenue in H1 was significantly less than the one registered in the first half of last year.  The H1 Results As reported by London South East, Argo Blockchain’s pretax loss for the first six months of 2023...

One of the leading cryptocurrency mining companies – Stronghold Digital Mining – is reportedly planning to use tire-derived fuel (made of shredded vehicle tires) in its operations in the state of Pennsylvania.  Burning such items is a toxic process that contaminates the nearby air, water, and soil. As such, it is no surprise that some locals and green activists are firmly against it. Mining BTC Via Such a Method is ‘Really Unacceptable’ According to a coverage by The...

While Bitcoin network fundamentals such as hash rate and difficulty have reached peaks, the same cannot be said for its hash price. The world’s largest crypto’s price has failed to recover, and miners are facing the brunt of it yet again. Bitcoin hash price – which can be described as the revenue generated by miners on a per tera-hash basis – has declined to levels not seen since the dramatic implosion of FTX in November 2022. Bitcoin Miner Revenue Declines Data from...

CoinspeakerOman Makes Big Investments in Bitcoin Mining Operations, But Is It Sharia Compliant? Oman disclosed a partnership of $300 million with Abu Dhabi's Phoenix Group to establish a 150-megawatt crypto mining facility in collaboration with Green Data City. Oman Makes Big Investments in Bitcoin Mining Operations, But Is It Sharia Compliant?

Die NASA hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten einige bemerkenswerte Missionen ins All geschickt, darunter die Erforschung des Mars, die Untersuchung der äußeren Planeten und die Entdeckung ferner Galaxien. Doch eine Mission sticht besonders heraus – die Mission Psyche. Diese Mission, die für das Jahr 2022 geplant ist, verspricht, die Geheimnisse eines einzigartigen metallischen Asteroiden zu enthüllen, der als Psyche 16 bekannt ist. Ein einzigartiges...

Bitcoin plunged below the $26,000 level on Wednesday extending monthly losses to nearly 15% but it has never been more difficult to mine the leading crypto-asset. Despite a severe drawdown in price, Bitcoin’s network fundamentals have largely refrained from following the same trajectory. In fact, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has reached an all-time high of 55.62 trillion hashes, according to the latest data from CoinWarz. Data suggest that the next difficulty adjustment is...