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Marathon Digital posts quarterly record of 2,195 Bitcoin mined in Q1
5.4.2023
With a new quarterly production record, Marathon Digital is now on track to meet its mid-year target of 23 exahashes
March Bitcoin Mining Stats Show Climbing Revenue and Hashrate Highs
1.4.2023
According to statistics, 4,498 blocks have been mined in the last 30 days, creating 28,112 new bitcoins over the past month. Bitcoin’s network hashrate has been around 341 exahash per second (EH/s) during the last 2,016 blocks or the last two weeks. This month, the mining pools Foundry...
Number of Irretrievably Lost BTC Now 6 Million — Cane Island Manager
27.3.2023
The number of irretrievably lost bitcoins has now reached 6 million, which leaves 13.3 million as coins that remain in circulation, Timothy Peterson of Cane Island Alternative Advisors has said. Peterson added that out of the 1.7 million bitcoins that will be mined in the next 100 years or more...
While Bitcoin’s Hashrate Remains Sky-High, Merge-Mined Crypto Asset Networks Benefit
6.3.2023
In recent times, Bitcoin’s hashrate has been consistently above 300 exahash per second (EH/s) as multiple mining pools dedicate significant hashpower to the Bitcoin blockchain today. Interestingly, some of the world’s top bitcoin mining pools are also using their hashrate...
Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital Sold Almost All Bitcoin Mined in February
2.3.2023
The miner sold its mined bitcoin for the second time this year
Block Sizes Exceeding 3 MB Now Common on Bitcoin Blockchain as Ordinal Inscription Demand Rises
12.2.2023
Since Luxor, a bitcoin mining pool, mined a record-setting 3.96 MB block (#774,628) on the Bitcoin blockchain, block sizes have been larger than they were prior to that block height in the past 12 days. Statistics show that blocks larger than 3 MB are now quite common, and demand for Ordinal...
Reddit User Discovers 7zip File Possibly Linked to Julian Assange Hidden in Bitcoin Blockchain
7.2.2023
According to a post on the Reddit community r/bitcoin, an old file was discovered that may be linked to Julian Assange, the whistleblower and founder of Wikileaks. The encrypted 7zip file is in the output script from a transaction that took place on Jan. 5, 2017, and was mined at block height...
Debate Intensifies Over Significance and Implications of Ordinal Inscriptions on Bitcoin Blockchain
4.2.2023
During the past two weeks, members of the cryptocurrency community have discussed the non-fungible token (NFT) concept known as Ordinals. Since the 3.96 MB block (#774,628) was mined, there has been a significant increase in Ordinal inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Ordinal Inscriptions...
Marathon Digital Sells Mined Bitcoin for First Time to Monetize Recent Rally
3.2.2023
The bitcoin miner sold 1,500 bitcoins in January
Bitcoin Records Largest Mined Block to Date, 4 MB Block Containing NFT Causes Unease Among Small-Block Supporters
2.2.2023
Amid the controversy surrounding the Ordinals project and the debate over what types of data should be stored on the Bitcoin blockchain, the network mined its largest block, nearly 4 MB in size, containing just 63 transactions. One of the transactions was a 3.94 MB Ordinal inscription featuring...
Hive Earned 184 BTC From Curtailing Its Power Use in December — That's Almost As Much As it Mined
9.1.2023
The miner has also installed the first Buzzminers, computers it designed using Intel's new bitcoin mining chip
100%: Public Bitcoin miners sold almost everything they mined in 2022
28.12.2022
Public Bitcoin miners sold off nearly everything they mined in 2022 but appear to have started accumulating reserves once again in what some hope is a bullish signal
Another Mysterious Person Signs a 2009 BTC Address, Message Shared by Martin Shkreli Mentions Convicted Felon Paul Le Roux
15.12.2022
Just recently, the crypto community discovered a bitcointalk.org forum user who signed a message from bitcoin block 1,018, and the signer associated the signature with an address first seen in 2022. Moreover, further investigation and evidence have tied block 1,018 to the now-deceased computer...
Recently Signed 2009 Bitcoin Block Reward Linked to Hal Finney’s Set of BTC Transactions
15.12.2022
At the end of November, an unknown person signed a signature tied to an extremely old block reward mined on Jan. 19, 2009, and the user published a message and verified signature linked to the reward on the forum bitcointalk.org. The message was tied to a bitcoin address associated with block...
An Unknown Individual Signed a Message Associated With BTC Block 1,018, Reward Was Minted 16 Days After Satoshi Launched Bitcoin
3.12.2022
On Nov. 15, 2022, a post was created on the forum website bitcointalk.org and the thread’s creator asked people to share signatures tied to some of their oldest mined bitcoin blocks. 11 days later, a newly created bitcointalk.org profile, called “Onesignature,” shared a signed...
Data Lake’s Consent-to-Earn: A Revolutionary Model for Data Monetization?
19.11.2022
During the last decade or so, data has become a hot topic and often a controversial one. As a result of Big Tech abuses and government-led collection schemes, people’s data is mined continuously and in ever-increasing amounts. Almost all of this is done without the consent of the individual...
While Known Mining Pools Currently Dominate, Unknown Miners Discovered the Most Bitcoin Blocks During the Last 13 Years
24.9.2022
The Bitcoin network has been operational for 5,012 days and so far, more than 755,000 blocks have been mined into existence. During the last year, Foundry USA and Antpool were the top two miners as the combined pools collectively mined 18,229 blocks out of the 53,510 blocks mined this year. Foundry...
These Are the Most Profitable Proof-of-Work Algorithms Since Ethereum Moved to Proof-of-Stake
17.9.2022
Since the transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS), ethereum cannot be mined and miners are now dedicating hashrate to different PoW chains. Since ethereum can no longer be mined, the most profitable PoW consensus algorithms are Kadena, Scrypt, and Cuckatoo32. Five days...
Crypto Miner F2Pool Mined the Last-Ever PoW Ether Block Before Merge
15.9.2022
The miner used almost 30 million gwei to pay for that transaction
While Bitcoin’s Hashrate Grew by 22,900% in 6 Years, Discovering Block Rewards Is Far More Difficult
10.9.2022
Over the past 12 months, Bitcoin’s hashrate has increased by 85.77%, while 53,547 blocks were mined and 334,668.75 new bitcoin were minted into circulation. More than two dozen bitcoin mining pools have dedicated hashrate toward the Bitcoin blockchain during the last six years, and while...