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The Halving Looms, Wright Plagiarizes, & Miners Face Serious Difficulties: Bad Crypto News of the Week
9.5.2020
Check out this week’s Bad Crypto News
Bitcoin Halving Means Miners Will No Longer Be Biggest Sellers of BTC
9.5.2020
Bitcoin halving will reduce the BTC inflation rate below 2% and miners will no longer be the biggest sellers
Miners in Europe Gear Up for Bitcoin Halving, but Energy Costs Still a Barrier
9.5.2020
As the halving approaches, miners in Europe face a serious challenge: Can they survive the event, and will the industry thrive post-halving?
Rain, Government, and BTC Bulls to Help Chinese Miners After Bitcoin Halving
9.5.2020
The third Bitcoin (BTC) halving will change the mining industry. With mining reward effectively being cut by 50%, many miners and mining companies will be forced offline.
Only the most efficient and economically viable will survive. The question is: will the surviving miners be mostly concentrated...
Catastrophic Disruption or Healthy Rebalancing? How The Halving Will Impact Miners
9.5.2020
With the Bitcoin halving set to transpire in just a few days, analysts are predicting significant disruptions to mining operations
Bitcoin Miners Send Bullish Signs Ahead of Halving
8.5.2020
There's some bullish news from the mining industry ahead of Bitcoin (BTC) halving. Miners are hoarding BTC, expecting higher prices and buying rigs in the thousands, while the recent rally has made older rigs profitable once more, thus pulling many miners away from the exit door.
The miners have...
One of Bitcoin’s Earliest Miners Is Dedicating $66M in Crypto to a Fund of Funds
8.5.2020
Bixin, one of the earliest bitcoin miner operators and wallet startups, is dedicating 6600 bitcoin, worth $66 million, to a new fund of funds
BTC Miners Expect Bitcoin Price to Surpass $12K After Reward Halving
7.5.2020
Miners are hoarding most of the Bitcoin they mine ahead of the halving, showing they expect a much higher price after the event
Europe’s Biggest Nuclear Station Might Give Electricity to Bitcoin Miners
6.5.2020
Cooling towers at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station. Ukraine’s plan to offset the financial chaos of the coronavirus pandemic might involve nuclear-powered cryptocurrency mining, says its energy ministry.
Yesterday, the country’s Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection announced that...
Bitcoin's Halving Incentivizes Miners to Sell for Double, Decred Co-Founder Says
5.5.2020
Decred's co-founder thinks Bitcoin's halving could double its price as miners look to cover the costs of their work
Bitmain Produced Bad Batch Of Units Ahead Of Bitcoin Halving, Miners Claim
5.5.2020
Bitmain’s Antminer S17+ model is said to have a failure rate of up to 30%, according to a group of disappointed customers
Major Chinese Crypto Miners Expect Influx of New Bitcoin Buyers
5.5.2020
Several prominent Chinese cryptocurrency miners expect a wave of new Bitcoin buyers following the halving
Powerfull Miners Just Increased Pressure on Smaller Players Ahead of Bitcoin Halving
5.5.2020
Less than a week before the third Bitcoin (BTC) mining reward halving, mining just became more difficult as more miners turned their machines on in the end of April.
On Tuesday, BTC mining difficulty, a measure showing how hard it is to compete for mining rewards, increased by 0.9%, to 16.1...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Nears All-Time High in Final Adjustment Before Halving
5.5.2020
Bitcoin mining difficulty increased to 16.10 trillion (T) on Tuesday, close to the network’s all-time high of 16.55 T recorded in March
7 Days Left Until the Great Bitcoin Halving: Hashrate Jumps Over 140 Exahash, Miner’s Hoard
5.5.2020
Just recently the price of bitcoin jumped over the $9,000 per coin zone, but retracted back a hair not too long afterward. On May 3, the research and analysis firm Glassnode reported that the overall BTC hashrate touched another all-time high above 140 exahash per second. As miners continue to hash...
Blockchain Bites: Bitfinex Sues, Miners Prepare, Congress Considers
4.5.2020
The U.S. Senate is considering blockchain voting during the COVID-19 crisis, while crypto becomes a mainstay in the Middle East
These Miners Might Suffer The Most After Bitcoin Halving
4.5.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) miners responsible for up to 30% of the network's hashrate, or the computational power, are the most vulnerable and might be forced to turn the majority of their machines off after Bitcoin mining reward halving next week, according to Alejandro De La Torre, Vice President at major...
Many Blockchain Projects Are Uniquely Suited to COVID-19 Research, Here’s How
4.5.2020
In the wake of the recent pandemic, here’s how many different blockchain projects are stepping up to donate resources in the hopes of finding a vaccine
Hackers Plant Crypto Miners By Exploiting Flaw in Popular Server Framework Salt
4.5.2020
Hackers have exploited a critical flaw in infrastructure management tool Salt and, in one case planted crypto mining software
Bitcoin Halving 2020: How the World’s Largest Mining Pool Is Helping Miners ‘De-Risk’
2.5.2020
F2Pool, the largest bitcoin mining pool in the world, controls 20% of the network's hashrate. F2Pool's Thomas Heller explains the economics of mining