Bitcoin Unlimited Mining Pool ICO Only Accepts ETC Investments
Support for Bitcoin Unlimited continues to grow, even though some of the employed methods raise questions. Project XBTC will host their ICO to fund a new bitcoin mining operation. The primary objective of this new pool is to signal Bitcoin Unlimited support. A total of 21 million XBTC tokens will be issued, all of which can only be paid for with Ethereum Classic. A rather strange turn of events, to say the least. It is not often one sees an ICO not accepting bitcoin payments these days. This only becomes more intriguing when considering how the XBTC ICO is designed to support Bitcoin....
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The Bitcoin.com mining pool is currently in private beta testing following its announcement on September 21, 2016. In just over two weeks, the mining pool has already established nearly 1 percent of the hashrate across all bitcoin miners in the world. The mining pool was founded by Bitcoin.com owner Roger Ver. It uses the Bitcoin Unlimited protocol, an....
ViaBTC's cloud mining offering may strengthen the position of Bitcoin Unlimited in the cryptocurrency industry. A Bitcoin mining pool which supports Bitcoin Unlimited has lately been criticised for offering cloud mining services. ViaBTC, as the company is called, has lately announced that it will allow more people to join its Bitcoin mining pool in return for small investments in its mining equipments. On the other hand, ardent Bitcoin Core fans, who have already shown their displeasure with the Bitcoin Unlimited proposal, have turned themselves against such services. ViaBTC claims that it....
Currently, everyone’s been focused on the price of bitcoin and turbulent global markets. However, in the bitcoin mining and development space, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. Smaller Mining Pools and Bitcoin Unlimited. As Bitcoin.com previously reported the bitcoin network’s hashrate distribution among mining pools has been changing. Lately,....
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....