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Mining Pools

Solo mining for correct block hashes is incredibly difficult right now. Actually, solo mining has been very difficult for quite some time. Mining pools first started at the end of 2010, with a company called Slush Pool. They are still active and at the time of writing they hold 161 Ph/s of hashing power. This…

Cloud Mining

Mining farms are commonplace in the Bitcoin ecosystem and most of them offer different packages for hash power while mining for themselves as well. This is a touchy subject for many people, due to the sheer amount of scams that are popping up across the internet. This is why we want to ask you to practice…

Hashing

The process of encrypting information to through a certain cryptographic algorithm and obtaining a scrambled output is called hashing. This is an integral process that continually benefits the Bitcoin network and takes care of security issues that would otherwise render the network completely unviable for financial usage. The blockchain consists of blocks that are connected to each…

Distributed Ledger

When you encounter the term "Distributed Ledger" it's pretty easy to get a clear idea of what it stands for. Distributed meaning that multiple people have the information, and Ledger meaning that it is data used to record historical events. In the case of Bitcoin, the ledger stores all of the transactional data from the first…

December 8, 20160Comments

Hackers strike major blockchain investor Bo Shen

Yesterday hackers made off with about $300.000 according to sources. They managed to infiltrate prominent blockchain investor Bo Shen, the founder of a venture capital firm Fenbushi Capital. Through the process of mobile phone hijacking, the hackers managed to gain entry into Bo Shen's account on Poloniex Exchange. It is clear that proper security measures could…

November 30, 20160Comments

How did U.S. Election Results affect Bitcoin?

Donald Trump's victory is incredibly impressive mainly because it shows that unexpected things can happen that can catch many off-guard. Currency and stocks are always on the move and traders utilize major events to manipulate the markets and create profit for themselves. With the positive initial change, it is suggested that a significant portion of…

November 22, 20160Comments

Bitcoin History 2014 to 2016

Hey everyone! We're back with the final article in our Bitcoin History series, where we will cover events that happened between years 2014 and 2016. We've focused on events that had significant outcomes or direct effect over Bitcoin. I can only say that I'm very s to have been writing this series, as I have…

November 8, 20160Comments

Bitcoin History, from 2010 to 2013

We've looked at the situations surrounding the conception of Bitcoin in our previous article, and if you haven't seen it. Take a look at it here. There wasn't a lot of noise or interest at first, therefore not a lot of things happened in that period, but these following three years are packed full with…

November 5, 20160Comments

Bitcoin History! 2008 to 2009

Hey everyone, we're starting a short series of articles about the history of bitcoin and the events that helped mold it into what it is today. We will take a look at how it started and how it evolved over time. I'm sure we won't be able to cover every single event, so if you…

November 1, 20160Comments

Zcash, Revolution or Failure?

The way the developers like to explain what is Zcash is through an anecdote comparing Bitcoin to http and Zcash to https. This makes a lot of sense, since Bitcoin, unlike Zcash is completely transparent. Zcash in contrast allows users to hide sender, receiver and value information of transaction. The way it does this is…