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Bitcoin Network’s Mining Difficulty Rises to All-Time High, Making Block Discovery More Challenging

Bitcoin Network’s Mining Difficulty Rises to All-Time High, Making Block Discovery More ChallengingBitcoin’s mining difficulty printed a record increase on Jan. 15, 2023, rising 10.26% to 37.73 trillion at block height 772,128. The network’s difficulty is now at an all-time high. This means, on average, it takes 37.73 trillion hashes, or attempts, to find a valid bitcoin block reward and add it to the blockchain. 2023’s First […]

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Bitcoin Hashrate Reaches All-Time High, Boost Could Lead to Record-Setting Difficulty Increase

Bitcoin Hashrate Reaches All-Time High, Boost Could Lead to Record-Setting Difficulty IncreaseDuring the first week of the new year, Bitcoin’s hashrate reached an all-time high (ATH) on Jan. 6, 2023, at block height 770,709. The network recorded a milestone of around 361.20 exahash per second (EH/s) on Friday, jumping more than 4% higher than the previous record of 347.16 EH/s recorded on Nov. 12, 2022. Network’s […]

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Bitcoin Mining Pool Btc.com Suffers $3 Million Cyberattack

Bitcoin Mining Pool Btc.com Suffers  Million CyberattackA major cryptocurrency mining pool has been hit by hackers earlier this month, the company who owns the pool revealed in an announcement. The incident resulted in the theft of digital assets belonging to the pool and its clients worth a combined total of $3 million. Chinese Authorities Launch Investigation Into Crypto Mining Pool Hack […]

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Binance to Offer $500 Million Worth of Loans to Crypto Mining Industry

Binance to Offer 0 Million Worth of Loans to Crypto Mining IndustryCryptocurrency exchange Binance has set out to support crypto miners through a lending program established by its mining pool. Presenting the initiative this week, the coin trading platform also unveiled that Binance Pool intends to launch cloud mining products. Leading Exchange Binance Looking to Help Bitcoin Miners in Difficult Times for Crypto Business Binance, the […]

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Another Ethereum mining pool forced to close due to China crackdown

Beepool, the fourth largest Ethereum mining pool will shut down operations following Beijing’s anti crypto posture.

BeePool, the fourth largest Ethereum mining pool, is closing amid China's crypto crackdown.

The China-based Ethereum mining pool announced on Tuesday it will suspend operations "in response to the latest regulatory policies."

Effective immediately, the registration of new users and the addition of sub-accounts for existing users will be discontinued, and all mining access servers are expected to stop operating by October 15.

The announcement comes just a day after news broke that SparkPool, the second largest Ethereum mining pool, will suspend operations by the end of the month for similar reasons.

Between them, BeePool and SparkPool account for more than one quarter of Ethereum’s hashrate.

Following a lull in its crypto crackdown, late last week it became clear the People’s Bank of China was ramping up a suite of new measures and promoting stronger inter-departmental coordination to suppress crypto activity. The measures aim to cut off payment channels, dispose of relevant websites and mobile applications in accordance with the law.

The mining crackdown has focused for months on Bitcoin mining which saw a major exodus of mining operations from the country. Now, the Chinese government’s focus appears to have shifted to Ethereum.

On Monday the Guangming media outlet reported that authorities in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia had seized 10,000 Ether mining machines from a warehouse after a tip-off. The miners were consuming 1,104 kWh of electricity.

According to the publication Inner Mongolian authorities have shut down 45 virtual currency mining projects so far, reportedly saving 6.58 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, which the outlets claims is equivalent to two million tons of standard coal.

The mining crackdown has contributed to the ETH price dropping below $3,000 yesterday and it is currently trading at $2,863.71 according to CoinGecko.

BeePool has been operating for four years and the mining pool currently accounts for 6.7% of the Ethereum mining share with over 3,000 blocks mined in the last week.

Related: Alibaba to ban crypto miner sales amid Chinese crackdown

While mining is profitable now, the introduction of fee burning on the Ethereum London hard fork has reduced profits as miners receive fewer rewards for each block.

The next stage in the blockchain's ongoing upgrade to Eth2 was announced earlier today for October. Miners will be further sidelined by the shift to Proof-Of-Stake.

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Green energy-focused Bitcoin miner Hive joins North American mining pool

Hive aims to take advantage of the east-to-west shift in Bitcoin mining power after regulators in China have renewed efforts to crack down on the industry.

Following its approval for a Nasdaq listing, Canadian Hive Blockchain Technologies has bought more than 3,000 Bitcoin (BTC) mining rigs to get involved in the Bitcoin mining shift from east to west.

Purchased from Digital Currency Group (DCG) subsidiary Foundry Digital LLC, the 3,019 MicroBT M30S miners acquired as part of the deal are already located at Hive’s facilities in Lachute, Quebec and Grand Falls, New Brunswick. Foundry will be issued cash and 1.5 million warrants of Hive, according to an official announcement.

Hive's new hash power will join the Foundry USA Pool, which includes Blockcap, Hut8, Bitfarms and Foundry as participants.

Noting the massive migration of mining power from China to the U.S. and Canada, Hive executive chairman Frank Holmes said that the firm’s entry into a North American mining pool furthers the company’s goal of increased transparency and accountability with its partners.

“We are excited to have Hive as a partner for the Foundry USA Pool as we continue playing our part in securing the global bitcoin mining network, ”Foundry CEO Mike Colyer added.

Related: Hive Blockchain Technologies approved for Nasdaq listing

The announcement says that the addition of the new miners would add an aggregate hash power of 264 petahash per second (PH/s), increasing Hive’s overall Bitcoin operating hash rate by 46% to approximately 830 PH/s. Based on the current difficulty and Bitcoin price, the newly enhanced mining setup would generate an additional $80,000 in daily income for Hive.

Hive is known for its green energy-based mining efforts.  The company has green energy-powered data center facilities in Canada, Sweden and Iceland. It recently sold its Norwegian operations due to legislative challenges.

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Marathon Mines First OFAC Compliant Bitcoin Block

Marathon Mines First OFAC Compliant Bitcoin BlockMarathon, one of the biggest bitcoin mining dedicated companies in the U.S. and Canada, has mined the first OFAC compliant bitcoin block, only accepting transactions that comply with the directives of this government office. This has caused a stir in libertarian circles, that argue this can be the start of censorship in the bitcoin blockchain […]

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