Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Korok Ray is a PhD economist/professor who researches/teaches Bitcoin. Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel once advised future ...

The anticipated update to the Bitcoin network, Bitcoin Core v30.0, has been officially released and is available for download to node operators. According to release notes shared by Bitcoin Core, the ...

From Bitaxes to Heatbits, small and comfortable home mining equipment are retail’s new entry into Bitcoin. Home mining is back. An opportunity not experienced since 2011 in Bitcoin, hobbyists are once ...

Bitcoin mining is the process that keeps the BTC network secure and operational. Bitcoin (BTC) miners collect pending transactions, bundle them into blocks and repeatedly perform hashing attempts ...

At a time when Bitcoin (BTC) mining is dominated by large-scale mining farms with advanced, specialized hardware, the odds of a solo miner striking the so-called digital gold are astronomically low.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Becca Bratcher is an author and journalist specializing in crypto. Over the past few years, the United States, specifically Texas, ...