Mining

Mining

Bitcoin Miners, Economic Irrationality Can Be Fatal

Some miners at OCEAN have started making use of the Coin Age Priority algorithm during block template construction using DATUM. Originally, Bitcoin Core originally selected transactions to include in blocks based on what they had seen first in their mempool. This…

Bitcoin Mining Is Now More Difficult Than Ever Before

It’s the metric that many Bitcoin investors don’t know—or care—about. But they should, despite the biggest and oldest digital coin’s price taking a hit earlier Monday. Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has edged up again to touch a new high. Data from CoinWarz…