Bitcoin mining pool Braiins has reached a major milestone by processing over 1,000 daily payouts on the Lightning Network. This achievement demonstrates the potential for Lightning to enable instant, ...

Everytime Bitcoin is bought or sold, it wastes enough water to fill an entire swimming pool, new research shows, further evidence of the staggering environmental impact of cryptocurrencies. The ...

Imagine the Bitcoin halving as a festival that happens roughly every four years — or every 210,000 blocks, to be precise. The mechanism was designed by Satoshi Nakamoto to control inflation by ...

Marathon Digital Holdings, the largest publicly traded bitcoin miner by market capitalization, has launched Slipstream, a service for individuals to easily submit complex and non-standard transactions ...

Cryptocurrency mining uses a significant amount of water amid the global water crisis, and its water demand may grow further. In a commentary published November 29 in the journal Cell Reports ...

Bitcoin (BTC) wallet provider Samourai Wallet has accused BTC mining pool Ocean of censoring Whirlpool CoinJoin transactions and BIP47 notification transactions from Dec. 6. However, Ocean’s top ...

In the last Mempool article, I went through the dynamics of transaction propagation when different nodes on the network are running different mempool relay policies. In this piece I’ll be looking at ...

A comprehensive deep dive of all the masked and less obvious costs associated with Full Pay Per Share (FPPS) payouts, and how those affect miner's profitability and their ability to maximize returns ...

In 2025, factors like profitability, consensus mechanisms, network value, and hardware accessibility determine why ...

ORE partners with PrivacyCash to launch a shielded pool on Solana, enabling private on-chain transfers using zero knowledge technology.

Private Bitcoin transactions — using a process called CoinJoin — has tripled since 2022 as a result of huge Bitcoin accumulators accelerating their purchases of Bitcoin, according to CryptoQuant.

Bitcoin [BTC] startup Mummolin, has raised $6.2 million in seed funding led by Jack Dorsey, among others, as it aims to give miners control over their block rewards from the network. The capital will ...