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Crypto Derivatives Skyrocket, Mining Pool Industry Heats Up + More News
27.4.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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TokenInsight, a token data and rating agency, reports that the total crypto derivatives trading volume in the first...
Binance Launches Crypto Mining Pool Amid Centralization Concerns
27.4.2020
After mining its first block in closed-beta last week, Binance has launched its mining pool. However, the crypto community is concerned about centralization
Seeking Profits: A Number of Large Crypto Exchanges Are Mining and Staking Digital Assets
18.4.2020
During the last 12 months, large cryptocurrency exchanges have been getting into digital currency staking and creating SHA256 mining operations. Just recently, Binance announced the launch of its mining pool following exchanges like Okex, and Huobi. Alongside this, a great number of crypto...
Major Chinese Mining Pool Drops out of BTC Mining Race, Looking to Altcoins
6.4.2020
One of the top Chinese pools has dropped out of BTC mining race due to Bitcoin price pressure
Binance Crypto Exchange Is Launching Its First Bitcoin Mining Pool
1.4.2020
Binance has been offering "generous" referral bonuses for its new crypto mining pool
Top 3 Crypto Mining Pool Founder Speaks on the ‘Wins’ of Working in Hardware
27.3.2020
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F2Pool – Leading Mining Pool for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cryptocurrencies
8.3.2020
F2Pool can be described as the world’s leading cryptocurrency mining pool for several leading cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. F2Pool is the oldest mining pool and is based in China; presently it is the largest multi-currency mining pool around the world. F2Pool mines...
How to Red Flag Scams: Bitcoin Doubler Club, Cryptomia247, Mining Cheap, Orelex, and Wintrust
11.2.2020
Last week’s news.Bitcoin.com post warning about common bitcoin scams like “The Bitcoin Code” elicited a plethora of comments and suggestions from readers, asking about and reporting other platforms and services claiming to provide bitcoin investment opportunities. This article...
Roger Ver’s Mining Pool Pulls Support for Bitcoin Cash Dev Fund Over Chain Split Threat
28.1.2020
Ver said he was "mostly just along for the ride," as the parties stepped back from competing hard forks
Competing Bitcoin Cash Mining Pool Averted 'For the Time Being'
28.1.2020
A pool of anonymous Bitcoin Cash (BCH) miners decided not to start the competing pool “for the time being” and will continue to support the BCH pools after supporters of the controversial proposal clarified their ideas.
The group believes that Bitcoin.com, an operator of a BCH mining pool, will...
BCH Community Leaders Bitcoin.com and Jonald Fyookball Clarify Positions on Funding Proposal
26.1.2020
Since Btc.top founder Jiang Zhuoer revealed an infrastructure funding proposal from five major mining pools last week, which would fund BCH devs via redirection of 12.5% of BCH coinbase rewards, the Bitcoin Cash community has been understandably bustling with debate, discussion, and suggestions....
Bitcoin Cash Miners Plan $6M Development Fund by Leveraging Block Rewards
22.1.2020
A group of Bitcoin Cash mining pool operations have decided to help fund BCH infrastructure development. On January 22, Btc.top founder Jiang Zhuoer revealed that five mining pools are preparing a short-term developers donation plan. Miners from Btc.top, Bitcoin.com, Viabtc, Antpool, and Btc.com...
Bitcoin Cash Sees Mining Pool Shift and Hashrate Surpass 4 Exahash
22.1.2020
While people have watched the BTC network surpass 100 exahash per second (EH/s), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has been steadily gathering hashrate as well. Since the November 15, 2018 blockchain split, which produced the Bitcoin SV (BSV) chain, BCH hashrate has jumped by more than 3x. Bitcoin cash is often...
Uzbekistan to Create National Mining Pool, Launch Licensed Exchange
16.1.2020
Establishing a “national mining pool” has been declared a priority in Uzbekistan. Miners who join the pool will enjoy lower electricity rates, announced the country’s agency overseeing the crypto industry. The Central Asian nation is also preparing to launch a licensed...
Mining Pool Simplecoin and Interactive Faucet Chopcoin Shut Down Due to EU Regulations
17.12.2019
Like crypto payments provider Bottle Pay, mining pool Simplecoin and interactive bitcoin faucet Chopcoin are shutting down in light of restrictions imposed by EU anti-money laundering legislation, AMLD5. Simplecoin co-founder Marvin Janssen addressed Telegram users last month saying “We...
US Arrests 3 in Alleged Crypto Mining Pool Fraud Scheme
10.12.2019
U.S. authorities have arrested three members of BitClub Network, alleging the mining pool is a long-running Ponzi scheme
As Bitcoin Cash Hard Forks, Unknown Mining Pool Continues Old Chain
15.11.2019
A rogue chain has developed following bitcoin cash's planned hard fork and has yet to cease production
Bitcoin.com Launches HashRace Promotion to Maximize Miners’ Profits
22.10.2019
Bitcoin.com, the world’s leading resource for cryptocurrency-related products and news, has launched the HashRace, a Bitcoin.com Pool promotion aimed at maximizing profits for its extensive network of Bitcoin mining clients.
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A Short History of the World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pools
15.9.2019
Mining pools grow and shrink, and rise and fall altogether. Today there are more extinct mining pools than there are active ones. The hashpower of the survivors secures hundreds of PoW crypto networks, from major coins such as BTC and BCH to obscure altcoins such as monero classic...
Fidelity Joins Blockstream’s New Institutional Bitcoin Mining Service
9.8.2019
Beefed up Blockstream mining services include Fidelity as an early customer