F2POOL Generates Largest Bitcoin Transaction Ever Recorded
F2POOL, one of the largest Chinese bitcoin mining pools has generated the largest bitcoin transaction ever recorded in an attempt to alleviate the massive spam attack launched on the bitcoin network this week, which Bitcoin Magazinepreviously covered. An anonymous figure or an organization has sent thousands of micro bitcoin transactions across the....
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The Bitcoin block size debate has taken another interesting plot twist in the past few hours. F2Pool, one of the largest Chinese Bitcoin mining pools in the world, has announced they support the hard fork for an increased 2MB block size. While the post on BitcoinTalk is a weird translation from Chinese to English, it looks like F2Pool might be attempting to push people to accept the Bitcoin hard fork. Not a great move in the Bitcoin mining industry if this were to be the case. F2Pool Statement is Quite Worrying To Say The Last. Certain aspects of a statement can tend to get lost in....
F2Pool, a Chinese mining pool also referred to as Discus Fish, which holds the largest share of the Bitcoin network’s hashrate at 26%, has been experiencing a series of extreme DDoS attacks. Behind the DDoS attack. The attacks began to target the F2Pool Bitcoin mining pool almost immediately after the F2Pool team announced their decision to “test” Bitcoin Classic by launching a subpool in which miners can mine Bitcoin Classic blocks. Peter Todd and other Bitcoin experts requested the hackers and the individuals behind the series of DDoS attacks to terminate them immediately, as they are....
The current Bitcoin blockchain block size debate has been very contentious. When Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn released BIP101/XT last week, they emphasized the need for an increase to the Bitcoin block size to address concerns of transaction scaling as adoption increases. Instead, it has touched off a war in the Bitcoin community, dev teams, miners and mining pools. The latest news on the debate is the fact that BIP100 has been adopted by F2Pool, BitClubPool, and Kano.is with some other smaller pools joining. This movement represents a resounding 25% + of the network hash rate, with....
Shortly after the sensational public break-up between Bitcoin and R3CEV - hire Mike Hearn, and the launch of several alternative Bitcoin implementations, the block-size dispute is reaching fever pitch. Bitcoin Classic, in particular, has been gathering support among companies, users and some developers. Significantly, a number of mining pools has also publicly come out in support of the Bitcoin Core fork led by Jonathan Toomim. The second largest mining pool on the Bitcoin network, with some 23 percent of hashing power, China-based F2Pool, was said to be among the pools prepared to switch....
Leading Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company BitFury has announced their support for 2 megabyte block size increase with Bitcoin Classic. As the world’s largest mining pools, companies, and experts are beginning to strongly engage in the implementation of Bitcoin Classic, the community predicts the majority of miners to support the 2 megabyte proposal in the upcoming weeks. “BitFuryGroup – the largest private miner and security provider is ready to move forward and support 2MB increase with Bitcoin Classic,” announced BitFury Group co-founder and....