ViaBTC in Support of Big Blocks, Becomes 2nd Largest Mining Pool
ViaBTC, the Bitcoin network’s second largest mining pool, has recently announced that the group is interested in increasing the Bitcoin block size and the Bitcoin Unlimited proposal. The statement of ViaBTC on social media immediately gained massive exposure in online Bitcoin communities, as many Bitcoin users responded positively to the group’s intentions to work with Bitcoin Unlimited with some developers voluntarily offering help to deploy Bitcoin Unlimited in ViaBTC’s network. Approximately 24 hours after the announcement of ViaBTC was released to the public, the market share of the....
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ViaBTC has announced its support to Bitcoin Unlimited, mines its first Bitcoin Unlimited block. Bitcoin Unlimited, the fork of Bitcoin blockchain is receiving a lot of support lately. Soon after Bitcoin.com mining pool announced its support to Bitcoin Unlimited, another mining pool, ViaBTC has followed suit. ViaBTC, which claimed itself to be the fifth largest Bitcoin mining pool on Twitter recently has allocated its full hashing power to mine Bitcoin Unlimited blocks. The mining pool, launched on June 5, 2016, has rapidly climbed through the ranks to be among the top mining pools on the....
Chinese mining pool, ViaBTC, has made the decision to test Bitcoin Unlimited. This is a significant move on the part of the pool’s managers, as it could have implications for the Bitcoin block size debate going forward. ViaBTC: “We Support Big Blocks”. ViaBTC also happens to be the 6th biggest mining pool in the world, making the decision even more....
ViaBTC, one of the largest mining pools in the world, experienced a 50% drop in its hashpower after allocating all of its resources in mining Bitcoin Unlimited blocks. Bitcoin Unlimited is an alternative project with which miners can decide the size of the blocks they wish to mine. ViaBTC for instance, is mining 2 MB blocks through Bitcoin Unlimited, while the Bitcoin.com mining pool is opting for a 16 MB blocksize. The team behind ViaBTC decided to move its entire mining pool to Bitcoin Unlimited due to their belief that the current capacity of the Bitcoin network significantly restricts....
Roughly two weeks ago, ViaBTC, a relatively new bitcoin mining pool that launched earlier this summer, garnered some attention on social media due to the announcement that they’re currently testing Bitcoin Unlimited, which is a software client that allows users to signal support for hard fork induced changes to Bitcoin’s block size limit. Although the mining pool was only launched this summer, it has already gained enough hash rate to become the fifth largest pool. Bitcoin Magazine recently reached out to ViaBTC CEO and founder Haiyang to find out more about this relatively unknown player....
Mining pool ViaBTC has just announced its first batch of cloud mining contracts. The company is offering anyone the chance to leverage ViaBTC’s deployment of mining machines. Now Anyone Can Join ViaBTC’s Network Hashrate. ViaBTC is a large mining operation that holds roughly 7.9% of the network’s global hashrate. The pool is now inviting people to....