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Study shows 62% of Bitcoin network is zero-emission
A recent study revealed that the carbon-neutral impact of the Bitcoin network increased by 41% since March 2021, and another 4.2% has a carbon-negative impact.
Zeynep Geylan 3 min read
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Largest Ethereum mining pool opens up staking ahead of the Merge
Ethermine Staking will enable users to earn interest on as little as 0.1 ETH as if they were staking it, without the need to put down the 32 ETH required to become a validator.
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Could Gitcoin Grants address be under sanctions from the U.S. amid Tornado Cash saga?
A smart contract written by Martin Köppelmann, Co-founder of Gnosis has revealed evidence of miner censorship on the Ethereum blockchain.
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Bitcoin mining energy consumption estimated to rise 10x if price hits $2M – Arcane Research
Arcane Research's published a report calculating Bitcoin's future energy consumption levels based on three possible future prices.
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Most PoW miners intend to mine Ergo, not Ravencoin or Ethereum Classic post-Merge
A poll on which Proof-of-Work coin Ethereum miners will switch to next showed Ergo taking almost half of the votes.
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Largest Ethereum miner, Ethermine, stops processing sanctioned transactions
Ethermine is no longer processing blocks that include Tornado Cash transactions creating censorship at a protocol level
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Bitcoin advocate claims Vitalik Buterin does not understand PoW
Brandon Quittem highlighted that the proof-of-stake consensus is at the risk of centralization, censorship while also arguing that PoW has a lower barrier of entry.
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Research: Miner selloff slows down amid back-to-back difficulty increases
Numbers show that the sell-off trend emerged amongst miners is slowing down, as mining difficulty increases again since the beginning of August.
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3 trends that will shape the future of Bitcoin mining
Bitcoin mining is a dynamically-changing industry that's growing in scale and operational knowledge. Here are three of the biggest trends we are seeing today.
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