‘Survival Mode’ Activated: Bitcoin Miners Struggle As Hashprice Collapses
Bitcoin’s mining industry is feeling growing strain as the key profitability gauge, hash price, slides toward levels that could push smaller operators offline and put pressure on mining equipment providers and service partners. Related Reading: Australia Faces Make-Or-Break Moment As Tokenization Sweeps Global Markets: ASIC Chair Hash Price Nears Danger Level According to industry reports, […]
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Data shows the Bitcoin mining hashrate has remained at high levels recently, despite the hashprice observing a deep plunge. Bitcoin Hashrate Has Continued To Be Near All-Time Highs Recently The “mining hashrate” refers to the total computing power currently connected to the Bitcoin blockchain. The metric is measured in terms of hashes per second, where […]
Bitcoin miners can now show their support for a long proposed technical update that would boost the network's transaction capacity. Following block 439,488 on the bitcoin blockchain (which occurred at roughly 8:30 UTC today), miners can now upgrade their software by changing a header value in the blocks that they process. Called Segregated Witness (SegWit), the change is best known as a way to scale transactions on the bitcoin blockchain by carving out more space in each block, though it also solves a long-known major bug and expands the software in a few other notable ways. As coded in....
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