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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.

By Diana AguilarMay 2, 2019

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

By Christine KimApr 26, 2019

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

By Christine KimApr 26, 2019

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

By Yogita KhatriApr 24, 2019

Grin developers are discussing potential changes to the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency's difficulty schedule.

By Christine KimMar 26, 2019

Japan's SBI Holdings has teamed with an unnamed “large” semiconductor firm in the U.S. to make crypto mining chips and systems.

By Yogita KhatriMar 22, 2019

Bitmain, the largest manufacturer of crypto mining equipment, is scaling up its capacity to mine bitcoin itself.

By Wolfie ZhaoMar 21, 2019

Canaan Creative, the maker of Avalon miners, has closed a significant funding round, valuing the firm at over $1 billion, according to a report.

By Wolfie ZhaoMar 12, 2019

Ethereum mining pool Sparkpool has verified the accidental sender of an unusually high miners' fee and agreed to split the amount.

By Wolfie ZhaoMar 11, 2019

Ethereum's ProgPoW proposal may appear to minimize the ASIC advantage, but it isn't as democratizing as claimed, argue Dovey Wan and Martina Long.