Tags: Proof-of-work

There is a skills gap in the blockchain industry, and universities worldwide have created programs to help produce the next generation of blockchain professionals.

Extended Bitcoin block times have been in the headlines recently, but are they really that big of a deal — or even very common?

Bitcoin has been declared dead more times than you’d think amid downswings in the market, but it’s always managed to bounce back.

“I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party,” Satoshi said in an Oct. 31 email in 2008.

One year after the Ethereum Merge, Grayscale has finally made the decision to abandon all the rights to proof-of-work Ethereum tokens.

Critics often overlook the inconvenient fact that “decentralized” blockchains in fact depend on centralized points of failure that have the potential to corrupt entire ecosystems.

Discover the contrasting functions of DApps and protocols in the blockchain world, and gain insights into how they contribute to the growth of decentralized technologies.

According to some experts, miners will always be essential to the Bitcoin ecosystem, even after mining the last coins.

Stanford University professor David Tse has pioneered a way to use Bitcoin to secure proof-of-stake blockchains.

Quantum Computing Meets Blockchain: Scientists Propose New Version of Proof of Work Consensus – Future of Crypto?

Stanford University professor David Tsè said his team’s research had revealed a security property between Bitcoin and proof-of-stake protocols.

The Arkansas Data Centers Act is moving now to the governor‘s office for approval. It grants crypto miners in the State the same rights as data centers.

Everstake CEO: Many Delegators Fail to Understand What Staking Is - And It May Lead to Trouble

An active-duty United States Space Force astronautical engineer is proposing to the Pentagon a new cybersecurity tool: Bitcoin.

Grayscale will take 180 days at max to decide whether, when and in what manner to sell ETHPoW on behalf of the record date shareholders.

The upgrade will enable staked ETH withdrawals on the Beacon Chain, completing Ethereum‘s transition to a PoS consensus.

The Bitcoin mining company is stumped as to why Bitmain changed the design of the S19 Antminers.

Bitcoin mining should be hailed as an effective tool for a lower emissions future, not demonized as a monkey wrench in the works.

The upgrade on the Zhejiang testnet was the first of three dress rehearsals for the much anticipated Shanghai hard fork.

The legislatures in Mississippi and Missouri have separately introduced bills aimed at protecting certain activities of Bitcoin miners following visits from the Satoshi Action Fund.

Dogecoin shifting to proof-of-stake would be good for the environment, but what impact would it have on miners and ASIC manufacturers?

To start mining Bitcoin at home, one needs to obtain a Bitcoin wallet and a mining rig, install the Bitcoin mining software, and join a mining pool.

Ethereum market dominance has doubled since the lunch of its staking contract in December 2020 as ETH price eyes levels not seen in five years versus Bitcoin.

2022 was tough on crypto prices, but ETH, LDO, MATIC, DAI and ATOM all made a positive impact on the industry.