Bitcoin Miners Are Bleeding: This Is Why You Should Be Paying Attention

As we are all aware of, if you want to keep on mining in the Bitcoin universe, you'll need an ASIC miner sooner or later, if you want to be profitable that is. We've been through a passage of USB ASIC miners (the Block Erupters) which are now rapidly declining in price. It has recently come to my attention that there are 2 new ASIC's announced, which are supposedly in stock. That is something you don't see too often (but it has happened before). So let's take a look at these two new Bitcoin ASIC's, shall we? First up, we have the Red Fury USB miner. Yes, that's right, a new USB miner.....

The Energy Secretary of Argentina eliminated power subsidies for cryptocurrency miners, raising the cost of energy to almost 4x what the miners were paying before. The measure affects customers of the wholesale power market in the Tierra del Fuego province, one of the provinces more notably occupied by miners in the country due to its specific climate characteristics. Argentina Eliminates Subsidies for Cryptocurrency Mining The government of Argentina has eliminated the subsidies that applied to power used by cryptocurrency miners. This is the decision that the Energy Secretary....

On October 6, Bitcoin.com mining pool officially mined its 10th block after securing nearly 1% of global hashrate. Its founder Roger Ver noted that Bitcoin.com has been paying its miners around 6% more than other major pools. The emergence of the Bitcoin.com mining pool and its 1% global hashrate holds more significance than others may imagine, considering their stance on the Bitcoin block size debate. Importance of Bitcoin.com’s Rising Hahsrate. Bitcoin Unlimited, a project designed to hard fork the Bitcoin network for scalability, allows miners and node operators to decide their own....

Litecoin for some moments returned to the level of $3.00. It seems that it is not the last contact with the strong level of $3.00. Traders can make careful purchases below the level of $3.00. The main weakening factor for all cryptocurrencies now is the Chinese New Year’s Eve. Traditionally, during this period Chinese people exchange cryptocurrencies for Yuan. I must remind you, that Litecoin has a wide popularity among Chinese miners and traders. Therefore, it is hardly possible to count on growth of this cryptocurrency in the next few days. DASH surely and quietly grows, without paying....

On-chain data suggests Bitcoin miners have been quietly accumulating while the rest of the market has been bleeding. Bitcoin Miner Reserve Continues To Stay At High Values Despite Struggling Price As explained by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, BTC miners seem to have continued to accumulate while the price has declined in the past few weeks. The “BTC miner reserve” is an indicator that tells us the total amount of Bitcoin present in the wallets of all miners. When the value of this indicator goes up, it means miners are transferring a net amount of coins to their reserves.....