One of Bitcoin's Biggest Miners is Launching a Second Pool
As if running the third-largest bitcoin mining pool wasn't enough, China-based Bitmain announced the launch of its second mining pool yesterday. Unlike the other large mining pools, though, the new offering (launched through its subsidiary BTC.com) will be open sourced to its community of users. According to Bitmain, the pool is not meant as a replacement for its popular Antpool platform (which has roughly 13% of the network's market share) but rather to enhance the stability of the bitcoin network. In interview, Nisthant Sharma, international marketing manager at Bitmain, explained that....
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Read the press release by Ghash.io here. This is a WARNING to all Bitcoin Miners. We sincerely request that miners using Ghash.io leave the pool for other smaller pools to create a more decentralized Bitcoin hash distribution. The Bitcoin pool Ghash.io has in the last 24 hours had more than 42% of the entire Bitcoin mining power making them the biggest Bitcoin mining pool in the world. If they receive more than 50% of the mining power they will be able to double spend their Bitcoins and possibly destroy the Bitcoin value (so called 51% attack). View the recent hash distribution pie chart....
Directpool.net officially launched a Bitcoin Mining Pool. Its goal is to prevent any future 51% attacks on the bitcoin network by redistributing the total network's hashing power. Directpool comes in as the next generation mining pool to further redistribute total network hashrate while giving back to the Bitcoin community. New York, NY (PRWEB) March 18, 2014. The Bitcoin community raised concerns about a pool reaching the 51% network hashpower. That pool can potentially control double-spend transactions, affect confirmations and prevent miners from mining valid blocks. Satoshi himself was....
The Bitcoin.com mining pool is currently in private beta testing following its announcement on September 21, 2016. In just over two weeks, the mining pool has already established nearly 1 percent of the hashrate across all bitcoin miners in the world. The mining pool was founded by Bitcoin.com owner Roger Ver. It uses the Bitcoin Unlimited protocol, an....
Slush’s Pool was introduced in late 2010 and was the brainchild of Marek Palatinus who saw a need for pooled mining resources to be able to keep more people mining Bitcoin. He developed the Stratum style of mining to help miners receive payouts in a landscape of escalating mining power. The development of Slush’s Pool brought with it a new era of Bitcoin mining and changed forever the way we mine Bitcoin and many other Cryptocurrencies. Marek’s words about how he came up with pooled mining are quite fitting. Now on November 17th Satoshi Labs announced the new Beta for Slush’s Pool. Slush’s....
According to CEO Johnny Lyu, people using renewable energy sources for mining will receive discounts on fees. Seychelles-based crypto exchange KuCoin is launching a mining pool aimed at providing revenue to proof-of-work miners after integrating their rigs.In a Wednesday announcement, the exchange said its KuCoin Pool product would allow miners around the world to contribute to the Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and share rewards. At the moment, miners are required to install and run the necessary hardware themselves to join the pool, but KuCoin said it would introduce mining in the....