Bitcoin.com Mining Pool Unravels Cracks in Bitcoin Community
The launch of Bitcoin.com mining pool's mainnet has opened up many questions about the scalability of Bitcoin protocol. The war over Bitcoin block size wages on. The recent attempt to resurrect the Bitcoin blockchain with no block size limit has received a mixed reaction from the community. The attempt comes in the form of the new Bitcoin.com mining pool, a brainchild of Bitcoin Jesus Roger Ver. The new Bitcoin.com mining pool has extended its support to Bitcoin Unlimited, a Bitcoin Core spin-off with no limits and restrictions. This move is considered as an attempt to create a version....
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Reports indicate that the Monero community is upset about a specific mining pool that currently commands 44% of the network’s hashrate. Supporters are asking mining participants to leave a mining pool called Minexmr as they believe the operation threatens decentralization.
A Single Monero Mining Pool Commands 44% of the Network’s Hashrate, Monero Community Members Debate Issue, Pool Admin Addresses Concerns
At the time of writing, according to statistics stemming from the web page pools.xmr.wiki, the mining operation Minexmr commands 44.084% of the network....
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....
Bitmain has announced the launch of its latest open source BTC.com bitcoin mining pool with new improvements and attractive pricing. Bitmain, the Bitcoin Mining ASICs manufacturer has launched a new open source mining pool. The new mining pool is part of BTC.com, the company’s Bitcoin block explorer, analytics tools and wallet services arm. According to the company’s blog post, Bitmain is offering a great deal to all the users joining its new mining pool. All miners on BTC.com mining pool will be able to mine the digital currency without having to pay any mining fee until next year.....
There's no shortage of mining pools in the digital currency community, but a new mining pool named DirectPool has just launched with a notable mission to give back to the bitcoin community and redistribute the network's computing power. DirectPool bills itself as being a "next-generation mining pool", with its focus on preventing any one existing pool from gaining more than 50% of the network's hashing power. DirectPool hopes to work with miners and industry leaders alike to actively contribute to the stable growth of the bitcoin community. Josh Harris, DirectPool's Media Director, spoke....
Popular bitcoin mining pool operator has taken no shortage of criticism over the past few months, but they're still not shying away from showing off their mining power. The pool, which launched over a year ago now in 2013, has generated nearly $250 million USD with the combined power of all miners across the world connected to the pool. That's 413,752 bitcoins, if you were wondering. The information comes from an infographic released by the pool operator, which reveals other interesting statistics. (You can view the infographic by clicking here). The pool has consumed 159.5 million KW/H of....