Can the pivot to AI save crypto miners?
Over the past year, several firms have decided to move away from mining crypto and transition their infrastructure to focus on AI.
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95% of all bitcoin is now mined and circulating
The significant moment came when Antpool mined block 923,999, earning Bitcoin’s coinbase reward containing the 19,950,000th BTC.
Bitcoin mining industry mostly uninterested in spam controversy
While many Bitcoiners have gone to war over the use of node-level “spam” filters, those in BTC mining have stayed in their lanes, unbothered.
No, a quantum computer didn’t break SHA-256 or Bitcoin
Yet again, Bitcoin was the target of fake news about a non-existent quantum computer cracking SHA-256 cryptography.
SBI crypto pool allegedly loses $21M — North Korea suspected
ZachXBT has traced suspicious transfers of funds linking the large SBI BTC mining pool to a possible attack by North Korean hackers.
Bitcoin devs cheer block reconstruction stats, ignore security budget concerns
Bitcoin Core developers omitted red charts of transaction fees when they cheered a green chart of block reconstruction stats.
Lawsuit alleges that Bitmain faked contract breaches
The lawsuit accused Bitmain of "fabricating" contract breaches in order to end a contract immediately with data center hosting partner.
Bitcoin devs warn of fork risk to miners as fees crash
Bitcoin mining pool operators achieved a dramatic reduction in minimum fees yet inadvertently shot themselves in the foot.
Bitcoin hits $122K but onchain activity sinks to multi-year low
Demand for Bitcoin blockspace is so low that some node operators want to reduce transaction fee minimums from about $0.18 to less than $0.01.
Bitcoin miner Chun Wang to become SpaceX astronaut today
Early Bitcoin investor and entrepreneur Chun Wang has paid tens of millions preparing for the first human crew to orbit the Earth’s poles.