Mining

By Sunday, July 23, more than 95% of miners had voted for Segregated Witness, defined in BIP 141, activation.  

The Bitcoin price rose sharply after Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 91 (BIP 91) was locked in yesterday evening.

The Bitcoin trading market has been panicky shivering this last week. The Bitcoin price has dropped sharply from $2,500 last week to $1,850 on Sunday, July 16. However, on Monday, July 17, Bitcoin’s price recovered a little and holds on at a level around $2,000.

Can mining cryptocurrencies be made as simple as operating a TV or a cell phone? A team of blockchain enthusiasts from Poland believe so—and are determined to prove it with easyMINE, an advanced yet user-friendly altcoin mining platform.

On Wednesday, Florida-based Fintech Investment Group announced the opening of its $45 million initial coin offering (ICO) for its new digital asset, Compcoin.

While the legal status of cryptocurrency is still unclear, each citizen of Moscow, Russia, will soon have the opportunity to get a free ride in a new Mercedes-Benz automobile.

Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, and steel and mining company "Severstal" have successfully used Blockchain technology to conduct international letter of credit transactions.

Japan to offer interest-paying accounts in Bitcoin. Are they pioneers or are there any other projects of the kind?

Bitcoin mining is regulated by a difficulty factor which determines how hard it is to mine one block of bitcoin. Recently the difficulty factor was just above 520,000,000,000. Coinidol.com investigates the effects of this rise on the Bitcoin mining activities.