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Compass Mining and Navier Debut New Tool to Help Miners Verify Their Machines’ Hashrate

Compass Mining and mining consultancy Navier announced they are rolling out HashTest, a new tool letting buyers and sellers verify the advertised hashrate of their specialized bitcoin mining machines.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miners Now Have a Tool to Verify Their Machines' Hashrate

Data for independent ASIC operators is still fairly splintered in terms of transparency. Compass and Navier are hoping to provide a fix.

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State of Bitcoin Mining in China as Crackdown Continues

Kevin Zhang, Foundry VP of Business Development, explains the history of China’s crackdowns on cryptocurrencies and mining operations from 2017 to where we are now. “The most recent crackdowns are the hardest we’ve ever seen,” Zhang said miners are headed to Eastern European and Central Asia. But could they return?

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Signs of BTC Hashrate Stabilizing?

CoinDesk's Christie Harkin discusses the potential signs indicating bitcoin's hashrate is stabilizing, amid speculation the worst fallout from China's recent mining crackdown might be over. Plus, the latest update on bitcoin's Taproot activation. "More than a quarter of bitcoin nodes have upgraded to the new protocol, and that's a big deal," Harkin said.

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¿Qué es el hashrate y por qué importa?

Hashrate es el poder computacional total combinado que se utiliza para minar y procesar transacciones en una blockchain con un sistema de prueba de trabajo.

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Key Findings From CoinDesk’s Q2 Research

CoinDesk Research Associate George Kaloudis says, “we’re in a bear market,” pointing to a chart depicting bitcoin’s bear and bull cycles over the past six years. He also compares the Q2 performance of the “CoinDesk 20” top assets, noting the divergence between ethereum’s gains and bitcoin’s losses. “That almost never happens,” he said.

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Bitcoin Miner Profitability Could Double After Record Drop in Network Difficulty

Mining economics have improved significantly, according to one analyst.

Technicians exit a cooling chamber adjacent to a wall of bitcoin mining machines at a mining facility operated by Bitmain Technologies Ltd. in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China.

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Valkyrie CIO and Co-founder Steven McClurg: Bitcoin in Rangebound Until End of Summer

Bitcoin was holding support around $33K Tuesday and is down about 5% over the past week. The cryptocurrency had a choppy trading session during Asia hours and is stuck in a tight range since June. Valkyrie CIO and co-founder Steven McClurg discusses the outlook for bitcoin and whether it will break out soon. "I definitely see us stuck here over the summer," he said, commenting on bitcoin's trajectory. Plus, why McClurg says he thinks inflation is not transitory and the impact of China's crypto crackdowns on bitcoin's price and hashrate.

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How Bitcoin’s Hashrates Affect Its Price

Crypto miners in China are migrating elsewhere in response to the country’s continued crackdowns. ​CrossTower Research Analyst Martin Gaspar discusses the impact of bitcoin’s hashrate on its price and why this matters. “Bitcoin’s price and hashrate have been very correlated over time… so they tend to move with each other,” Gaspar said.

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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Records Largest Drop in History, Price Jumps

Miners who remain operational are likely to become even more profitable over the coming weeks.

bitcoin mining machines at a mining facility operated by Bitmain Technologies Ltd. in Ordos, Inner Mongolia