For the first time since 2017, some bitcoin BTC $110,317.97 miners are getting paid more to process transactions on the blockchain than they’re rewarded for creating new BTC, a potentially welcome ...

Most people probably first heard of blockchain mining when Bitcoin began entering the mainstream in the late 2010s. Bitcoin, after all, was the only cryptocurrency in the beginning, and mining was the ...

At its core, cryptocurrency mining involves using computer power to solve complex equations or algorithms. By solving these algorithms, miners help record and validate transactions on a blockchain, ...

In 2021, Tesla stopped taking Bitcoin for electric vehicle purchases. Why? Concern for the environmental toll of creating new units of the world’s best-known cryptocurrency in a process called mining.

Despite it being an emergent technology within the mining sector itself, greater value is already being excavated from blockchain through the now-also-growing use of AI. As recently as October 2023, ...

Microsoft and Atom Computing, a technology firm based in California, recently announced a breakthrough in quantum computing that could pave the way for a proof-of-work transformation in the world of ...

Like so much of the civic discourse in America these days, the debate over the environmental implications of digital assets, particularly cryptocurrencies, is unnecessarily polarized. The policy that ...

Bitcoin miner Argo Blockchain is starting a non-mining business unit called “Argo Labs” to diversify its business and take advantage of other opportunities in the blockchain ecosystem. “We've always ...