Recently, an extreme heat wave swept across Texas, driving the local temperature to above 38 degrees Celsius, which overwhelmed the local power grids. According to media reports, almost all industrial-scale BTC mining companies in Texas have been forced to shut down their mining machines. Thanks to the previously cheap electricity…

The “Burger In, Bitcoin Out” Vol.2 carried out by ViaBTC on Twitter on July 15th was a great success. Users actively participated in the event by posting burger pics and sharing their answers to “What’s your biggest challenge when mining?”. Hundreds of comments were received, and here we’ve selected some…

After the BTC hashrate hit a record high of 266.41EH/s on June 8, people thought that the vitality injected by miners, who run the crypto upstream, could save cryptocurrency from the prolonged slump and lead to market recovery. Yet, as central banks around the world raised interest rates to combat…

In the blockchain world, most operations happen on the native network (aka the mainnet), which is an independently-running blockchain network with extensive community recognition. Participants may conduct transactions, deploy smart contracts, and mine cryptos on the mainnet, which creates practical value for its coin. However, the mainnet alone is often…

Since the revenue of Ethereum miners exceeded that of Bitcoin miners for the 12th consecutive month, the winning spree has finally been terminated in June, and the profitability of Ethereum mining took a sharp plunge primarily due to the overall sluggish market over the past few months. Moreover, the crypto…

Since Ethereum announced its shift to PoS, the crypto community has kept close eyes on how the different stages of the transition progressed. According to the official roadmap, the Merge is undoubtedly the network’s highlight in 2022, no wonder the ETH community is always talking about it. After Ethereum’s Ropsten…

This year, the crypto market kicked off to a rough start. Meanwhile, multiple big-name crypto institutions “crashed” recently, which led to a new round of market panic. According to CoinGecko, the current total market cap of cryptocurrencies is less than $930 billion, which has shrunk by nearly two-thirds from its…

Recently, there has been a lot of news about Ethereum 2.0. First, Buterin Vitalik, the founder of Ethereum, released news last month that Ethereum 2.0 might be merged as early as this August; then the Ethereum 2.0 client Lighthouse released version V2.3.0 to fix the previous block reorganizations in the…

Crypto mining is never short of innovations. From CPU-based mining in the early days to today’s ASIC miners, each crypto wave has brought fresh changes to crypto mining. As mining rigs shift towards high hashrates and integration, mining farms are also becoming more sophisticated, larger, and more specialized. Meanwhile, many…