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A solo Bitcoin miner hit a rare jackpot of more than $200,000 after validating a block through $75 worth of rented hashrate.
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Mining Pools News
A mining pool is an association of miners that combine their computing resources to mine cryptocurrency blocks and split the reward equally, according to the contributed amount of work. Mining pools became necessary when the difficulty of proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining increased so much that it became impossible for the average miner to mine a full block. The growing difficulty led to the establishment of the first mining pools for Bitcoin. Today, Bitcoin mining pools are the most influential communities in the Bitcoin network and are the major organs that decide whether new forks should be implemented. There are also Ethereum mining pools, Litecoin mining pools and mining pools of other major cryptocurrencies that are too hard to mine alone. There are also mining multipools that switch from one cryptocurrency to another when it becomes more profitable to mine.
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The Bitcoin network's mining difficulty dropped by as much as 27% within a single adjustment period during China's 2021 crypto mining ban.
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Hashrate fell sharply as some Bitcoin miners curtailed operations during extreme winter conditions in the US, boosting profitability for companies that stayed online.
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Winter storm Fern has triggered widespread power outages across the US, prompting Bitcoin miners to curtail operations to ease grid strain.
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Untagged Bitcoin blocks sparked solo-miner speculation before NiceHash confirmed they were mined during internal testing, highlighting limits of onchain attribution.
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Russia’s Justice Ministry proposed fines and prison for illegal crypto mining, as officials say most miners still haven’t joined the tax register.
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Turkmenistan has passed a sweeping crypto law that legalizes the industry but tightly controls it through licensing and the potential use of state-run ledgers.
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CleanSpark is among the leading Bitcoin mining companies expanding into AI data center infrastructure, seeking diversified sources of revenue amid post-Bitcoin halving pressure.
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F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang criticized Bitcoin’s BIP-444 soft fork — seeking to curb arbitrary onchain data — as a “bad idea” that he will not support.
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Discover how Bitcoin mining runs in 2025: From halving rewards and ASIC rigs to mining pools, hashprice shifts and power use.
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Large Bitcoin mining companies are looking to expand into AI services for new sources of revenue amid post-Bitcoin-halving pressure.
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The legislative proposal introduces a tiered tax system for energy used by crypto miners in New York, charged by kilowatt-hour used.
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Explore the top Web3 jobs in 2025, salary ranges and how to start in the best-paying blockchain careers.
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Qubic claimed it achieved 51% control of Monero’s hashrate, prompting debate over whether the resulting six-block reorganization was a successful attack.
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The $3.5 billion heist is the single largest cryptocurrency hack and went unreported by both parties for years, according to Arkham.
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