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Crypto for Advisors: Bitcoin’s Supply Reduction
18.4.2024
What does Bitcoin’s fourth halving mean, and why does it matter?
Bitcoin Miners Near Final Month Before Reward Halving Slashes Revenues
17.3.2024
There are 34 days left until the Bitcoin network’s halving event, expected on or around April 20, 2024, which will reduce miners’ rewards by half. Bitcoin’s price has remained above $60,000 throughout March, reaching close to $74,000 on March 14. Between onchain fees and...
Infrastructure Providers Warn of ASIC Scarcity for Bitcoin Miners
29.2.2024
Bitcoin (BTC) miners have begun to express a number of concerns ahead of the next halving event, which is set to occur in April. During the halving, the Bitcoin mining reward will be cut from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC. Additionally, the Bitcoin network’s hash rate recently reached an all-time high...
No concerns over Bitcoin halving supply shock, says Bitvavo CEO
31.10.2023
The CEO of Dutch cryptocurrency exchange Bitvavo believes market dynamics will cater for the potential skyrocketing demand for Bitcoin in 2024
Bitcoin to hit $100K in 2024? Canaan VP weighs up 2024 halving opportunities
12.9.2023
Canaan vice president Davis Hui believes a supply deficit following the next Bitcoin halving will drive its price past $100,000
Bitcoin miners raked up $184M in fees in Q2, surpassing all of 2022
6.7.2023
It's been one of the most lucrative quarters for those that profit from Bitcoin transaction fees in nearly two years
Bitcoin June 2024 Expiry Futures and Options in High Demand Due to Halving: Deribit
21.6.2023
The Panama-based exchange will launch the June 2024 bitcoin futures and options contracts on Thursday at 08:00 UTC
Ordinals Upend Bitcoin Mining, Pushing Transaction Fees Above Mining Reward for First Time in Years
9.5.2023
Several mining pools such as Luxor Technologies and AntPool mined blocks on Monday where fees exceeded Bitcoin’s block subsidy of 6.25 BTC
Litecoin price poised for 700% gains vs. Bitcoin, says Charlie Lee
3.5.2023
The Litecoin halving is just three months away and LTC price is well-positioned for some massive gains, argues the founder
Bitcoin Could Rally to $63K Ahead of Next Mining Reward Halving: Matrixport
28.10.2022
Bitcoin tends to bottom out and start rallying 15 months ahead of the halving, past data show
Old School Bitcoin Whales Are Moving: This Week a Single Entity Transferred 10,000 BTC Acquired in 2013
12.3.2021
While bitcoin’s price has neared the all-time price highs captured in February, old coins that have sat idle for many years have started to wake up from slumber. On March 4, at block height 673,162, a block reward worth 50 bitcoin from 2010 was transferred for the first time in over a decade....
Nightmare Come True: User Pays $2.6 Million in Transaction Fees to Send $134 of Ether
10.6.2020
A record ethereum transaction fee has been paid today: $2.6 million to transfer $134. The user probably mixed up the fields on the value of the transfer and the fee, eventually paying 10,668 ETH in fees, or $2.6 million, on a transaction mined by Sparkpool. A nightmare come true, the customer sent...
Bitcoin History Part 24: Celebrating the First Halving in 2012
25.2.2020
As the third Bitcoin halvening approaches, a handful of OGs will wistfully recall the first such event, which occurred in November 2012. Back then, following the completion of block 210,000, the mining reward halved from 50 to 25 BTC. To commemorate the milestone, early adopters threw parties...
Zcash Community Approves New Mining Reward Distribution Scheme
29.1.2020
The people of Zcash have spoken, approving mining reward changes that will come into play at the coin’s halving in November
Beam, BCH and Zcash Will Join BTC in Halving Their Mining Rewards
8.12.2019
There’s been a lot of noise about Bitcoin’s halving, set to occur in May, and the effect this will have on price as BTC’s mining reward is slashed. It’s not the only PoW coin gearing up for a major reduction in its emission rate next year, with Bitcoin Cash, Beam, and Zcash...
Halving Bitcoin Mining Reward Could Push the Coin’s Valuation to Greater Heights
21.10.2019
A simple law of Economics Supply and Demand has remained the cornerstone of predicting a whole lot of business happenings in the world. You cut the supply, and demand will rise while pushing the prices of the commodity higher. In the case of Bitcoin, we are anticipating the same supply and demand...
7 Unorthodox Ways to Mine Bitcoin
20.7.2019
Bitcoin isn’t crazy – in fact it might just be the soundest monetary system this generation has ever known. Some of the techniques miners have devised to extract it, however, are extremely unorthodox, ranging from the ingenious to the downright crazy. Here are seven of the strangest...