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Post-halving Bitcoin Consolidates, Altcoins Facing Major Hurdles
12.5.2020
After a strong decline, bitcoin price started a decent recovery wave above USD 8,550 ahead of the mining reward halving. BTC/USD even recovered above the USD 8,850 level, but it failed to surpass USD 9,000. As a result, there was a fresh decline and the price is now (08:30 UTC) consolidating in...
Chainalysis Claims Mining Pools Holding More Bitcoin anticipating Bitcoin Price Surge Following The Halving
12.5.2020
New York based blockchain investigation software enterprise Chainalysis claimed on Monday that as per its analysis, mining pools are holding more Bitcoin for the last few months in anticipation of the price surge that is expected after the scheduled halving. In a Twitter thread, it claimed having...
Post-Halving Report: Brazil Could be New ‘Demand Source’ for Bitcoin
12.5.2020
When Brazil’s central bank lowered its interest rates to 3%, potentially driving out some investors, it may have opened the doors for BTC
Smaller Bitcoin Wallets on the Rise Since Second Halving
12.5.2020
The number of Bitcoin addresses with balances less than 1 BTC has increased by more than 100% since the second halving in July 2016
Twitter Remains Bullish on Bitcoin Price Despite Muted BTC Halving
12.5.2020
Bitcoin halved successfully and even though BTC failed to rally investor sentiment remains bullish
Final Block Mined Before Halving Contained Reminder of BTC’s Origins
12.5.2020
In the final block, Miner f2pool immortalized a NY Times article highlighting the similarities between the 2008 financial crisis and today
Up to 30% of Bitcoin Miners Close Shop as Business Turns Unprofitable After Halving
12.5.2020
About a third of Bitcoin (BTC) mining firms may already be switching off their machines as the business becomes unprofitable due to a reduction in mining rewards. The third Bitcoin halving – consummated earlier today – reduced supply of the pioneering cryptocurrency, cutting the bonus...
Blockchain Bites: Making Sense of the Halving, Consensus Distributed’s First Day
12.5.2020
Get all the news from the first day of Consensus: Distributed, including the latest on Bitcoin's third halving. (And, who had the best Zoom backgrounds?)
YouTube Cancels Cointelegraph's BTC Halving Livestream for Being 'Harmful Content'
11.5.2020
What a twist! YouTube pulled the plug on our seven-hour livestream
The Kings of Crypto: An Inside Look at the History of Coinbase
11.5.2020
Author Jeff John Roberts is joined by Fred Ehrsam to talk about the rise of CoinBase and Ehrsam’s experience in crypto. Fred Ehrsam, who co-founded Coinbase, said that crypto has been good to him. “I feel like as somebody who works in crypto, we’re pretty lucky in this...
Market Wrap: Where Does Bitcoin Go After the Halving?
11.5.2020
With the highly anticipated bitcoin halving reducing new mining supply, what are crypto traders thinking about upcoming market behavior?
Bitcoin’s Third Halving Complete: Reward Cut Surprisingly Faster Than Previous Time Estimates
11.5.2020
The Bitcoin blockchain has experienced its third block reward halving on May 11, 2020, at approximately 3:21 p.m EST, even though quite a few countdown clocks estimated that the halving would occur on May 12. Bitcoin miners now get 6.25 BTC per block rather than the 12.5 BTC they acquired before...
Bitcoin Halving Arrives: Mining Rewards Drop for Third Time in History
11.5.2020
Bitcoin's third halving, a once-every-four-years occurrence and the most anticipated event this year in the cryptocurrency industry, has finally happened
Bitcoin Went Through its Third Halving, Next Target - 'Halvation'
11.5.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) just went through its third halving of the mining reward, which is jokingly referred to as 'Halvation' (halving + salvation) that should send the price of the most popular cryptocurrency to the moon or even further.
Today, on block 630,000, mined by AntPool, Bitcoin's rate of...
It Happened: Bitcoin Just Experienced Third Halving in Its History
11.5.2020
Bitcoin has just experienced a one-in-four-year event, its third halving, which has cut the miner block reward from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC
Bitcoin Transaction Costs Soar 400% Amid Halving Hyperbole
11.5.2020
The average transaction cost for Bitcoin (BTC) soared 414% in the days before the halving, peaking at $3.19 on May 8, from as low as $0.62 on April 26. This is the highest price bitcoiners have paid for a transaction on the network in ten months, according to data from Bitinfocharts. Fees are paid...
Top Crypto Traders Predict Bitcoin Price Direction After BTC Halving
11.5.2020
Bitcoin’s price saw wild volatility leading up to the halving. Top crypto traders discuss where the price is likely headed to next
Genesis Mining’s Marco Streng: 'You Can't Just Switch Miners On and Off'
11.5.2020
The Cointelegraph Bitcoin Halving live party continues with a deep dive into how the mining industry is affected by the sudden, but very predictable revenue shock
This is How Bitcoin Changed Since Its Second Halving in 2016
11.5.2020
The Bitcoin (BTC) mining reward is halving today, and the entire industry is focused on it to see what'll happen afterward. Though we may not know what the feature has in store for BTC, we know its past - and we know that in the four years since the second halving, many of the network metrics...
Unprofitable Miners Already Leaving Bitcoin Network Ahead of BTC Halving
11.5.2020
The halving is just a few hours away — and many miners are already shutting their soon-to-be unprofitable rigs, says Poolin VP Alejandro De La Torre