It is an unavoidable fact that mining Bitcoin consumes massive power. Meanwhile, along with the adoption of increasingly stringent environmental policies and growing environmental awareness worldwide, Bitcoin mining, which involves high energy consumption, emissions, waste gases, and noise, has become a controversial topic. …

Many have made a fortune during the recent BRC-20 boom. In addition to early investors, who are the biggest winners, BTC miners also earned handsome profits. The Bitcoin network has seen a spike in average transaction fees since early May. On April 8, miners earned approximately 21.8 BTC in transaction…

As of May 23, 2023, it has been 250 days since the Merge, and 40 days since the Shapella upgrade. Meanwhile, Ethereum, an open-source decentralized blockchain platform, continues to seek improvement, as it strives to become more scalable, secure, and sustainable through a series of improvement proposals. …

Following the Merge and the closure of Ethereum’s PoW mining, many GPU miners had to look for the next promising crypto, and that’s when Kaspa came to the attention of miners. In Q1 2023, Kaspa quickly gained traction due to a surge in its token price and released Rust Alpha…

On January 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto mined the Genesis Block on a small server in Helsinki, Finland, and received a reward of 50 bitcoins, which marks the beginning of crypto mining. From CPU to ASIC In Satoshi Nakamoto’s initial vision, BTC mining could be performed using CPUs installed on PCs. …

Recently, BRC-20 tokens have gained traction overnight, with immense market popularity, and the first BRC-20 token ORDI has recorded a hundredfold increase. The astonishing surge has sparked a frenzy in the crypto market. As the minting volume of the Ordinals protocol grows rapidly, Bitcoin has set new records in terms…

Nine years ago, Litecoin founder Charlie Lee proposed the “merged mining” of Dogecoin and Litecoin. The proposal saved Dogecoin, which was a worthless crypto with weak consensus and vulnerable to hacking. At the time, Dogecoin developers decided to adopt the auxiliary proof-of-work mechanism (AuxPoW), which now appears to be one…

It is a basic law of the market economy that “the scarcer the commodity, the higher the value”, which also applies to cryptos. If there is anything for certain in the crypto market that can stimulate positive sentiment this year, it is likely to be the upcoming Litecoin halving. After…

In the crypto market full of competition and uncertainties, miners keep searching for the most efficient ways to maximize their mining revenues. As the Litecoin halving approaches, the network is witnessing a continuous inflow of miners, pushing up the hashrates of the network and intensifies competition. As a result, Litecoin…