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Bitcoin Miners Can Now Signal Support for SegWit

If they so choose, miners can now safely signal their support for a major bitcoin update.

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ViaBTC Sparks Bitcoin Scaling Debate in Reddit AMA

The head of a Chinese mining pool backing an alternative bitcoin implementation completed a Reddit AMA earlier today.

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China's Bitcoin Miners See Profit in a Bigger-Block Blockchain

A bitcoin mining conference held by one of the network's largest miners saw what some have labeled an unscientific discussion of scaling the network.

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Bitcoin's Block Size Debate is Back (And It Might Be Worse Than Ever)

With little likelihood of a single scaling solution that will please everyone, is a hard fork inevitable?

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A Lower Block Time Could Help Bitcoin Scale, But Will It Work?

A small tweak to bitcoin could have a big impact.

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ViaBTC Rises: How A Mysterious Miner Could Decide Bitcoin's Future

The future of bitcoin could be impacted by a mysterious new mining pool, one that has shown it's willing to go its own way on technical debates.

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Demand for Zcash Mining Grows as Blockchain Launch Approaches

With less than a month to go before its launch, momentum is continuing to build around the anonymous cryptocurrency Zcash.

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Winter is Coming: Bitcoin Mining for Heat (And Profit)

Winter is coming... So does it make sense to use bitcoin miners to subsidise your heating costs? CoinDesk investigates.

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One of Bitcoin's Biggest Miners is Launching a Second Pool

Open source. From Digital Asset to Bitmain, the two-word phrase is the blockchain rage.

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In Race for Bitcoin Mining Profits, Fortune Favors the Old

New research has found that unless the price of bitcoin goes up, there will be little room for new miners to compete.

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