The temporary loss of mining power underscores academic concerns that geographic and pool concentration can magnify infrastructure failures, though markets showed little immediate reaction.

Extreme cold led miners to curb their electricity use, briefly cutting hashrate as grid stress spread across several regions.

Two independent miners mined full blocks and collected roughly 3.15 BTC each, an uncommon outcome in a network dominated by ...

The rise from 1 to 148 trillion does not block participation, it measures how much total computational power is competing at any moment. Each major jump in difficulty aligns with real-world changes: ...

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 ...

Bitcoin mining faces record competition as solo and hobbyist miners stage a comeback using new mining strategies. Thirteen years ago today, Bitcoin experienced its first halving event, reducing the ...

Cango Inc.’s Bitcoin treasury is now worth more than the company’s entire stock market capitalization, returning attention to past “severely undervalued” assessments of the firm’s stock valuation by ...

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 ...