Cisco Claims New Patent Could Apply to Bitcoin Mining
A Cisco patent suggests that internet customers would be able to create a distributed mining pool through a proprietary cloud application.
North Carolina Orders Crypto Mining Firm to Halt Share Sale
North Carolina deems passive mining pool "shares" are unregistered securities.
Antpool Adds Support for Siacoin Mining Amid Bitmain Miner Launch
AntPool adds support for the siacoin token, as the mining pool's parent firm, Bitmain, launches a device that can mine it.
Lightning's Next Act: Decentralizing Bitcoin Mining?
Could the same mechanisms used in the Lightning Network have the unintended benefit of also decentralizing mining?
Monopoly-Resistant Mining? Paper Claims Bitcoin Centralization Fears Overblown
A new paper suggests bitcoin mining may naturally resist centralization – a finding with potential implications for the long simmering scaling…
F2Pool Reneges: Bitcoin Pool Pulls Segwit2x Support Over Hard Fork
Controversial scaling proposal, Segwit2x has lost Chinese mining pool, F2Pool's support over its timeline for a 2MB hard fork.
It's Official: Segregated Witness Will Activate on Bitcoin
Passing a key threshold on Wednesday, the bitcoin network will soon be upgraded with a long in-development code change.
SegWit Lock-In: What the Tech Milestone Means for Bitcoin
SegWit is on par to lock-in today. Miners are embracing the scaling upgrade, but there's still time before users are able to take advantage.
Bitcoin Cash Block Production Accelerates as Mining Difficulty Adjusts
After a few difficulty adjustments, blocks on the bitcoin cash blockchain are now being mined more steadily.
Startups Brace for Bitcoin Cash Fork in Wave of Policy Updates
Industry startups face tricky decisions as a new cryptocurrency, Bitcoin Cash, moves to split off from the main bitcoin network next week.
