Blockchain.info Sponsors British Woman In Solo Row Across Pacific
In June 2014, Elsa Hammond will attempt to row across the pacific ocean, from Monterey Bay in California to Hawaii, a distance of over 2,400 miles, as part of the Great Pacific Race 2014. Hammond expects to spend about three months at sea and she will row on average for 16 hours a day. Her goal is to beat the current record of 99 days and as part of her effort she is raising money for the Plastic Oceans Foundation. Blockchain Sponsorship and Pizza. Hammond reached out to the Bitcoin community in November, and Blockchain.info agreed todonate to the cause. Nicolas Carey from Blockchain says....
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The Great Pacific Race 2014 is the world's first rowing race across the Pacific Ocean. Teams of one, two, and four will compete in a journey to row across the Pacific Ocean from Monterey, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. The race is expected to take anywhere from 30 to 90 days based on crew size in the boats. The racer's boats are only powered by muscle without any help from sails or engines. Ultracoin and Bitcoin Woman Magazine are pairing up to sponsor racerElsa Hammond for the race that will last up to three months. Ultracoin is an Altcoin with a blazing fast transaction time of six....
Source: ElsaHammond.com. Rower Elsa Hammond is planning to row her way through part of the Pacific Ocean from Monterey Bay, California to Hawaii. It's a a 2,800-mile journey, and it'll all be propelled with Hammond's own body strength. In preparation, Hammond needs to raise £100,000 (or just over $160,000 USD) to make the journey happen. As such, she's decided to accept bitcoin donations. As of this writing, Hammond has managed to raise 6.41174 BTC to her donation address, nearly $4,000 USD. Blockchain.info has even joined in on the fun, becoming one of Hammond's sponsors. Excess funds....
Mining bitcoin without any help from a larger pool has become an increasingly-improbable feat over the last decade. Another Bitcoin (BTC) miner from the Solo CK mining pool has solo mined a new block on the Bitcoin blockchain, earning a block reward of 6.25 BTC (over $220,000 at current prices) as a result. The event took place on Monday at a block height of 720,175.Solo mining consists of attempting to validate blocks by a single miner, without teaming efforts with other miners on a mining pool, and running a full blockchain node. Without significant hashing capabilities, the odds of....
On 4/15/14. Blockchain.info's Nic Cary took to Twitter to tease the Bitcoin populace with an upcoming announcement... Many were reminded of the last time Cary promised an announcement; the announcement fell short of many's expectations. This time around expectations were met and exceeded, Cary truly has presented a crowdpleaser.https://twitter.com/niccary/status/456129500707688449 Blockchain.info announced today that: Blockchain.info has struck a five year deal to exclusively manage the domain name Bitcoin.com. Blockchain.info is positioning itself to maintain and build its preeminence in....
The folks over at Blockchain.info have acquired bitcoin price application ZeroBlock (LLC), as noted in an announcement this Christmas Eve. The mobile application (available on both Android and iOS) provides the end user with the latest news, price quotes, and more. Dan Held, ZeroBlock's developer, will be joining the Blockchain.info team as a product manager, as part of the acquisition. It being the most-viewed bitcoin application on the Apple App Store, it's easy to see Blockchain.info's interest in the app. Blockchain.info say that the acquisition of the app is part of their "very....