Mining Bitcoin Profitably Has Never Been Harder
Miners face an absolute bloodbath in their attempts to acquire bitcoin profitably as hash rate and electricity costs continue to rise while prices remain low.The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1275: “Miners are in a world of hurt.” Sign up for the newsletter here.The pain in the mining world continues as hash rate skyrockets, the difficulty adjusting upwards as a result and hash price craters as the price of bitcoin has remained in a tight range between approximately $18,000 and $20,000 for more than six weeks. After yesterday’s upward....
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Welcome to the first article on Bitcoin Research Papers or, as we will call them here, BitPapers. As you may recall, Gavin Andresen recently resigned from the Lead Developer post, stating that: "Today, I find it harder and harder to keep up with all of the great Computer Science or Economics papers related to bitcoin and other crypto-currencies; in just the last week Mr. Google told me about 30 new papers I might be interested in reading." Many of these papers, unfortunately, go unreported, despite some very interesting findings, because they are not a full article newsworthy. These series....
BITMIN is a company that offers investors a platform with a lower entry barrier to mining, which is becoming more important due to the fact that the competition in Bitcoin mining has increased, and will continue to do so. The idea was conceived by Sathes Kumar, a person that wanted to give people a real chance at earning profit from Bitcoin mining after seeing the extremely high costs of competitive Bitcoin mining. BITMIN is doing this by allowing investors to buy “shares” from their IndieGoGo Campaign page for $5, which is equivalent to 18 GH/s of SHA256 mining. This is different compared....
China has a lot of advantages in the Bitcoin mining industry, though it won’t last forever, as more countries are entering the space. If you talk about Bitcoin (BTC) mining, you have to talk about China. China has become a giant in the Bitcoin mining ecosystem with major mines and pools, quick, cheap labor and a majority control of the world’s hashing power. So, should you go set up a mining operation there? Do the pros outweigh the cons? Is China actually a threat to the Bitcoin ecosystem? Let’s look at the state of Chinese mining.Back to the basicsIn the beginning of Bitcoin, you could....
Cryptocurrency mining has come a long way since Satoshi Nakamoto mined those very first Bitcoins using only CPU cycles. Background. The harnessing of graphic card GPUs pushed mining rates to Gigahashes per second, and recently, the development of ASICs made Terahash rates possible. Many miners either fell out of the race or were forced to form pools - combining their hashing power in order to mine profitably. So began the era of the mining pools, behind whose power to make or break small altcoins, lay a greater threat: the 51% Attack. More on that later. The sheer hashing difficulty and....