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London-Listed Argo Blockchain Adds 1,000 Miners in Bid to Salvage Stock Price

Struggling crypto mining firm Argo Blockchain says it's expecting to break even in the second quarter after an investment in new equipment.

Balaci’s testimony indicates that BitClub never ran the lucrative bitcoin mining pools it lured victim investors with. (Shutterstock)

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Staking, Ethereum’s Mining Alternative, Will Be Profitable – But Barely

The new miners of ethereum 2.0 are expected to make a small but positive profit for creating new blocks and validating transactions on the network.

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Bitmain Discloses 88% Reduction In Own Bitcoin Mining Power

Bitmain's internal bitcoin mining operations are generating 88 percent less computing power than a month ago, suggesting the industry giant has cut capacity.

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'One-Stop Shop' for Crypto Mining and Trading to Launch Spot Market May 23

Bcause says it's weeks away from launching a spot market for bitcoin, ether, bitcoin cash and litecoin, despite operating under chapter 11.

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Bitcoin Miners Send Message at Fidelity: We Run on Clean Energy, Not Dirty Coal

Bitcoin miners made the case for their industry as a driver of clean energy adoption, rather than an ecological disaster, at Fidelity’s Mining Summit.

Image of the Fidelity Mining Summit session — courtesy of Fidelity

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Bitcoin Mining’s New Bidding War

The cost of secondhand cryptocurrency mining equipment in China has nearly doubled in the last few weeks in response to bitcoin’s price jump.

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Bitcoin Can't Fix Venezuela: I Should Know

Diana Aguilar used bitcoin to survive in Venezuela, but cryptocurrency can’t fix the troubled nation's economy, she argues.

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Funding Approved for Audit of Ethereum's ProgPoW Mining Proposal

Funding has been raised to conduct a technical audit over "ProgPoW" – a hotly-debated proposal to change ethereum's mining algorithm.

Crypto mining machines. (lmstockwork/Shutterstock)

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Vitalik Proposal Could Turn Ethereum Staking Into $160 Million Industry

Ethereum researchers are currently discussing the optimal reward issuance rates for a new version of the network called ethereum 2.0.

Vitalik Buterin at DEVCON 2018

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Bitfury, Swiss Investment Firm Launch Regulated Bitcoin Mining Fund

Bitfury and Swiss investment firm Final Frontier have launched a bitcoin mining fund after it was authorized by an EU regulator.

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