BTC China Getting Into Merchant Payments, Mining Pool Biz
We've been watching the Chinese exchange grasping for new ways to keep their business operations in tact since the "great Chinese bitcoin rush of 2013" came to a slowdown. From derivative products to bitcoin ATM networks, it seems like they all have some new plans in the works. BTC China is no exception. A Monday report from bitcoin news website CoinDesk highlights that BTC China is entering the merchant payments and mining pool business, in a move that will hopefully make its clients consider it a one stop shop when it comes to bitcoin. Using one account, BTC China users are able to....
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BTC China has announced it is expanding its range of digital currency services with the addition of a new mining pool and merchant payments processing. It marks another step on the company's transition from simple exchange to an integrated services platform, and reflects a recent diversification trend among Chinese digital currency businesses. The company said in a statement: "BTC China's expanded portfolio covers all aspects of the digital economy, allowing a user to mine bitcoin and litecoin in its mining pool, store it in BTC China's wallet, pay for goods through its payment gateway,....
BTC China has announced that its new mining pool, which launched just five weeks ago and is exclusively Chinese, has already generated over $1.2m in bitcoin. The company said that as of 28th November, the pool had mined 3,325 BTC, or $1,226,758.75 according to the CoinDesk USD Bitcoin Price Index at the time of writing. Blockchain's Hashrate Distribution Chart ranks the BTC China pool 7th-largest overall, contributing around 13.9 PH/s, or 5% of the world's bitcoin hashing power. An estimation of hashrate distribution amongst the largest mining pools. Source: Blockchain. The firm says it....
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.....
BTC Pool Party Data Center Building In Progress. BTC Pool Party is a new Bitcoin mining pool that has gone into operation in the last few months. With so many mining pools and centralization driving several to close, a new pool is almost unheard of. When CCN contacted BTC Pool Party, an interesting person in the Bitcoin mining hardware business turned out to be a very big part of it. Juan Garavaglia, the CEO of 112bit.com, is the VP in charge at BTC Pool Party. He is the lead Bitmain authorized distributor for the US and Canada and sells to Bitcoin miners of all sizes with some very large....
China is one of the major economies and a regional superpower in Asia. The vast country with the highest population in the world is also the country that tops the charts with the highest hashing power. The Chinese Bitcoin community is actively involved in Bitcoin mining operations and the Chinese mining pools are in control of the majority of overall Bitcoin mining. According to the latest data available on Blockchain.info, the top three Bitcoin mining pools are AntPool, F2Pool, and BTCC Pool. AntPool is a mining pool operated by the company known for AntMiner ASIC miners, BitMain while....