The rise from 1 to 148 trillion does not block participation, it measures how much total computational power is competing at ...

You know how geeky the cryptocurrency community is, when this is the trending hashtag on Twitter. This long sequence is a ‘block hash’ — a cryptographic number that is produced when new transactions ...

Mitchell Grant is a self-taught investor with over 5 years of experience as a financial trader. He is a financial content strategist and creative content editor. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as ...

The genesis block kickstarts a blockchain by establishing the network, adhering to consensus rules and linking all future blocks back to the origination point. In proof-of-work (PoW) chains, the ...

The average block size of the Bitcoin network peaked at 1.341 MB on May 2, with the mining hash rate approaching a new all-time high. The mean block size of the Bitcoin network peaked this month, with ...

For the third time in a little over ten days, a solo bitcoin miner has found a valid block hash to take the full coinbase reward home. The small worker, with only about 86 terahashes per second (TH/s) ...

How mining works is fascinating. When I explain it to people, I enjoy seeing their face the moment their mind is blown. I’ll explain it here, but just know, I’m imagining all your faces as your minds ...

I decided to see how practical it would be to mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper. It turns out that the SHA-256 algorithm used for mining is pretty simple and can in fact be done by hand. Not ...

Rakesh Sharma is a writer with 8+ years of experience about the intersection between technology and business. Rakesh is an expert in investing, business, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies. Erika Rasure ...

Could an IBM mainframe from the 1960s mine Bitcoin? The idea seemed crazy, so I decided to find out. I implemented the Bitcoin hash algorithm in assembly code for the IBM 1401 and tested it on a ...