Mining pools have historically been viewed as commodity infrastructure, technically necessary, but largely interchangeable. That perception is changing as the margin environment tightens and the ...

Parasite Pool, which pays 1 BTC to the block finder and splits the rest among all participants, mined block 945,601 on Friday ...

Bitcoin lottery mining at home is growing in popularity. Have the bitcoin nerds discovered a new hack that beats the Powerball? This article compares the various types of mining pools that can be ...

The move reflects a bet that institutions will embrace ZCash, and as Foundry positions itself as a linchpin of U.S. crypto ...

Bitcoin's mining concentration problem just showed up on the blockchain itself, triggering a small “reorg.” At the center of the story is Foundry USA, the largest bitcoin mining pool, representing a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Korok Ray is a PhD economist/professor who researches/teaches Bitcoin. Bitcoin mining looks like a heavy industrial process—rows ...

Bitcoin mining sounds glamorous in a late-stage-capitalism way-until you start looking at the usual barriers: expensive hardware, higher energy use, constant noise, and a learning curve that assumes ...