Category: 2011

4 Consecutive Difficulty Drops Make Bitcoin Block Rewards 49% Easier To Find

Following the largest mining difficulty drop in Bitcoin’s history, this weekend will once again see another slide, but less than 6% of the difficulty will be shaved. Statistics show Bitcoin’s…

Bitcoin Blocks Will Soon Be 27% Easier To Find — Miners Brace For The Largest Difficulty Drop In BTC’s Lifetime

Bitcoin, the leading crypto asset in terms of market capitalization, has seen the cryptocurrency’s network hashrate drop considerably during the last two weeks. On Saturday, July 3, the network’s mining…

$1.4M In Bitcoin Remains Idle — The Curious Case Of The 37-Day-Old 2009 Block Reward Spent A Year Ago

Approximately 378 days ago, before the bitcoin bull market started to heat up, a unique block was spent stemming from a coinbase reward created 37 days after the Bitcoin network…