Bitcoin mining today is dominated by mining pools. These mining pools arguably have a strong hold on the Bitcoin network, but also on their own participants. Since mining pools typically operate with ...

Slush Pool, a Czech-based Bitcoin mining pool accounting for 6 percent of hashing power on the Bitcoin network, indicates it will re-enable connected miners to vote for a block-size increase through ...

The company behind Slush Pool, the first cryptocurrency mining pool to make its services publicly available, is rebranding. The Prague-based company Braiins is perhaps less well-known than Slush Pool, ...

Slush Pool, Bitcoin's first and oldest mining pool, announced support for AsicBoost today, March 6, 2018. Slush Pool users that have the technology embedded in the application-specific integrated ...

Slush Pool along with other mining pools such as Bixin, will not support Bitcoin Cash and its August 1 hard fork execution. COINTELEGRAPH IN YOUR SOCIAL FEED Slush Pool along with other mining pools ...

Bitcoin's oldest mining pool, Slush Pool, will let its miners vote on the Segregated Witness soft fork proposed by Bitcoin Core. By passing this choice down to individual miners that connect to the ...

Gone are the days when you could mine hundreds of bitcoins a day with a basic CPU, or even a GPU. These days, bitcoin mining is all about specialized mining hardware known as ASICs (short for ...

Three of the biggest Western mining pools – representing a total of some 19% of hashing power on the Bitcoin network – stand divided on raising the block size limit. COINTELEGRAPH IN YOUR SOCIAL FEED ...

Riot Blockchain (RIOT), one of the world's largest publicly traded bitcoin miners, is switching its mining pool to ensure “more predictable results” for its operations, the company said after failing ...