A vendor hods a sign reading "Bitcoin accepted" at a store in San Salvador, on January 26, 2022. - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) urged El Salvador to withdraw bitcoin as a legal tender, ...

15 years ago, the first Bitcoin mining pool was introduced by coder Slush. This was the birth of Bitcoin CZ, which would become Slush Pool, and is still operating today under the moniker of Braiins ...

As bitcoin mining transitions from a small-scale operation to a large-scale industry, the balance between decentralization and centralization is becoming increasingly critical. In a recent discussion, ...

A pool in Bathhouse Flatiron in New York City, which is heated by bitcoin mining. Credit - Courtesy Bathhouse The scene inside Bathhouse, a spa in Manhattan, is one of complete serenity. Visitors ...

Bitcoin (BTC) miners consume massive amounts of energy to secure the network and process transactions. While the network offers many benefits, like banking the unbanked, Bitcoin’s energy consumption ...

Blockchain has a "green" problem related to the significant energy consumption associated with the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism. However, by incentivizing renewable energy use in Bitcoin ...

Alejandro De La Torre is deeply concerned that Bitcoin mining is too centralized, and he’s on a mission to change that. This is why he started DEMAND, a Bitcoin mining pool that puts power back in the ...

Bitcoin is mined on the Proof of Work system in which computation power is employed to answer cryptographic tasks.

On Tuesday, Nov 28, DEMAND announced their launch as a new kind of mining pool built on the open source Stratum Reference Implementation (SRI) that aims to aid in decentralizing the bitcoin mining ...

Today, Volcano Energy and Luxor Technology Corporation have officially unveiled Lava Pool, El Salvador’s inaugural Bitcoin mining pool powered by abundant renewable geothermal energy. Volcano Energy, ...