Oldest Bitcoin mining pool ‘immortalizes’ bullish Reuters headline

Slush Pool has immortalized a potentially iconic Reuters headline on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Over 15,000 users, mainly small individual miners, are part of the still-growing Braiins (Slush Pool) ecosystem. All things have their humble beginnings; in 2010, the first Bitcoin (BTC) mining project was created in Prague, Czechia, and was simply called Bitcoin.cz. Soon afterward, founder Mark "Slush" Palatinus decided to move on to other ventures, such as creating the world's first cryptocurrency hard wallet, Trezor. As a result, Braiins, a company doing embedded Linux development and research, took over the mining pool and renamed it accordingly.Fast forward to now, Braiins (Slush....

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.....

Mainstream news agencies are beginning to provide positive coverage of Bitcoin, acknowledging its proper significance as an asset as the US dollar nosedives. The U.S. Dollar Index fell sharply today, extending a 10 month losing streak that places it at the lowest point since April 2018. International news agency Reuters marked the occasion with a story headlined: “Dollar plummets on U.S. stimulus hopes; Bitcoin hits all-time peak”. The article noted the tumble coincided with today’s news of a second COVID relief bill being discussed in Congress and the recommencement of negotiations....

Bitcoin’s oldest mining pool, Slush Pool, will let its miners vote on the Segregated Witness soft fork proposed by Bitcoin Core. By passing this choice down to individual miners that connect to the pool (sometimes also referred to as “hashers”) Slush Pool hopes to remove itself as a decision maker from the equation. Speaking to Bitcoin Magazine, Slush Pool operator Marek “Slush” Palatinus stated: “Satoshi’s idea was not to have a few entities control the network. As a mining pool we shouldn’t rule.” Segregated Witness. Mining pools offer Bitcoin miners a solution to combine their hash....