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Bitcoin Miners Reach the Halfway Point to the Next Block Reward Halving
6.5.2022
On May 5, 2022, at block height 735,000, the bitcoin mining pool Poolin mined the 105,000th block reward since the last halving. The mined block also represents the halfway point to the next halving that is estimated to take place on or around April 27, 2024. Block 735,000 follows the network...
90% of Bitcoin’s Supply Cap Has Been Issued, Miners Have 119 Years Left to Mine BTC
13.12.2021
On December 12, crypto advocates celebrated the fact that 90% of the 21 million bitcoins that will ever exist have been mined into circulation. Currently, Bitcoin’s inflation rate per annum is around 1.88%, which is lower than the central banks’ traditional 2% target reference....
Bitcoin Price Captures a $64,895 High, Pantera CEO Says ‘BTC Rally Exactly Like Previous Halvings’
14.4.2021
Cryptocurrency markets have been surging during the last 24 hours, as billions of dollars have flooded into the crypto-economy. Bitcoin’s value touched an all-time high (ATH) once again on Wednesday morning (EST), reaching $64,895 per unit. The latest price rise is leading up to the upcoming...
Bitcoin Halving: Definitive Guide (In Just 5 Minutes)
10.2.2021
Bitcoin halving is often referred to as “Halvening”, it’s a formulated reduction in the reward coins offered to the miners using a predefined blockchain algorithm. Bitcoin halvings take place once in every four – 4 years approximately, or for every … Continued
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Halving & Burns on BitGesell – the Optimal Combination for Scarcity and Value in the Crypto Age
1.2.2021
BitGesell represents a deflationary cryptocurrency that closely resembles bitcoin, but comes along with a few design changes. Its value proposition stems from Silvio Gesell’s financial market philosophy, who imagined monetary units that lose their value over time through demurrage. To keep...
Four cryptocurrency block reward halvings to look out for in 2021
13.1.2021
Could block reward halvings scheduled for the coming year prove beneficial for the valuations of these four cryptocurrencies?
Zcash Undergoes First Halving as Major Upgrade Drops ‘Founders Fund’
18.11.2020
Alongside the halving, Zcash has rolled out its Canopy upgrade that replaces the Founder's Fund with built-in funding for development
Bitcoin mirrors gains of past halvings, suggesting $41K price in 2020
2.9.2020
Performance remains on track, the stock-to-flow model shows, as creator PlanB tells investors, “patience is a virtue.”
Average Price of Bitcoin More Than Quadrupled Between Reward Halvings
23.6.2020
Investing in bitcoin has been somewhat of a phenomenon, as millions of individuals have invested funds into the crypto-economy since at least 2010. One specific and lucrative method of investment is dollar-cost averaging. If an individual was to invest $10 a week into purchasing bitcoins since July...
Zcash’s First Halving May Solve Its Inflation Problem
25.5.2020
Zcash (ZEC) is due for its first mining reward halving later this year. The event could solve a major problem for the privacy-focused cryptocurrency
First Halvings, New Steps and 20 Crypto Jokes
11.4.2020
The week behind us had many news and quite a few firsts for us. ETH saw a wave of buying, leaving BTC in the dust, while BTC's mining difficulty was set to increase - which indeed it did, and BCH had its first halving, with miners seen changing camps ahead of it. Meanwhile, BSV rallied ahead of...
Bitcoin’s Third Halving: Survey Shows 50% of Miners Expect a Price Increase
10.4.2020
The block reward halving for BTC is 32 days away and crypto businesses and mining operations are steadily preparing for the event. Today, Bitcoin’s hashrate is hovering just above 100 exahash per second (EH/s) and one year after the 2016 halving, the digital asset’s price and hashrate...
Bitcoin Forks Flounder Despite Imminent Halvings
8.4.2020
Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, and Bitcoin Gold, have all failed to generate bullish momentum despite their upcoming halvings
Past Halvings in Review: Case for an Immediate Bitcoin Upsurge Is Flawed
3.4.2020
Historical data from 2012 and 2016 shows that Bitcoin’s price is unlikely to see a big spike after the May halving
BCH, BSV Block Halvings Will Force Miners to Bitcoin (BTC) — Report
31.3.2020
Bitcoin will take miner resources away from Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV next month, but the picture is far from rosy, warns Coin Metrics
In-Between Bitcoin Halvings: Analyst Proves Bitcoin’s Price Not Bound to 4-Year Cycles
29.3.2020
Crypto traders and analysts have always looked to the halvings for some kind of clues in order to predict the future price of bitcoin. A number of traders also think that BTC price movements shift every four years and speculators often use the halvings as milestone markers. On March 28, crypto...
Industry Execs Claim Freshly Minted ‘Virgin Bitcoins’ Fetch 20% Premium
8.3.2020
A few blockchain surveillance companies like Cyphertrace have recently published reports on criminal activities tied to bitcoin usage and the studies mentioned the topic of “virgin bitcoins.” According to industry executives, freshly minted bitcoins with no transaction history can sell...
BSV and BCH Are Surging With Their Halvings a Month Before Bitcoin
8.2.2020
With less than 60 days away, the halving effect appears to be pushing up the price of BSV and BCH
Three High Profile Crypto Networks Face Reward Halvings This Spring
28.1.2020
This spring, three of the largest crypto networks, BTC, BCH, and BSV, will undergo their halvings around the same time for the first time in history. During the last halving in 2016, only one network existed, but now three protocols share the same consensus algorithm. Google Trends shows that...
Rob ‘Crypto Bobby’ Paone and Preethi Kasireddy on Fundraising, Halvings, and the Long Steady Slog of Crypto
25.12.2019
Why 2019 was a long, steady slog of behind the scenes building and why 2020 promises more of the same