If you’ve ever wondered how Bitcoin actually works—beyond the price charts and celebrity tweets—this one's for you. "Bitcoin mining is like a big guessing game on computers," Holmes explained. "People ...

Euny Hong is the former supervising editor at Investopedia.com. She is also the author of two critically-acclaimed, published books. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial ...

Today, DEMAND (DMND), backed by venture bitcoin capital firm Trammell Venture Partners, launched the first Stratum V2 Bitcoin mining pool built on the Stratum Reference Implementation (SRI), to ...

Seven major Bitcoin mining pools and companies have joined the Stratum V2 working group to help develop an open standard for communication between mining pool operators and individual miners. AntPool, ...

Bitaxe’s founder, who goes by the nym Skot, has taken his hobby of tinkering with electronics and not only transformed it into a full-time gig but has catalyzed thousands to follow his lead.

Bitcoin lottery mining at home is growing in popularity. Have the bitcoin nerds discovered a new hack that beats the Powerball? This article compares the various types of mining pools that can be ...

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 ...

Parasite Pool, a home-miner-focused bitcoin mining pool using a novel hybrid payout model, has mined its second block, #945,601, about 48 days after its first. The pool pays 1 bitcoin directly to the ...

Bitcoin mining isn’t one-size-fits-all. These are the main methods and what sets them apart. “But you don’t actually own any of the Bitcoin or the miners, you just have a share of that business. And ...

The Stratum V2 working group aims to improve mining-pool communication and give individual miners more control over block templates. Seven major Bitcoin mining pools and companies have joined the ...