Chun Wang, the Chinese-born Maltese-Kittitian crypto investor who co-founded F2Pool, has been named Mission Commander for SpaceX’s first commercial human spaceflight interplanetary mission to Mars, crucial to Elon Musk’s plans to send one million people to the Red Planet. Wang, whose mining pool controls roughly 11.3% of the global Bitcoin network hashrate and whose personal […]
The biggest decentralization move bitcoin mining has seen in years just happened quietly, with seven of the largest pools agreeing to back the same open standard. Foundry, AntPool, F2Pool, SpiderPool, MARA Pool, Block Inc, and DMND have all joined the Stratum V2 working group, the group announced last week. Stratum V2 is an open-source protocol […]
Bitcoin miner BitFuFu (FUFU) produced 445 bitcoin in the month of June — an 11.3% jump from May — while expanding its infrastructure across five continents. The Singapore-based miner’s total hashrate under management rose to 36.2 exahashes per second (EH/s), up 6.2% month over month. This includes 3.8 EH/s from BitFuFu’s own operations and 32.4 […]
Decentralized finance (DeFi) on the Bitcoin blockchain may still be in its infancy relative to Ethereum, but Bitcoin DeFi (BTCFi) is becoming safer and cheaper, crypto analytics firm Messari said in a new report. A central participant is Rootstock, one of the oldest Bitcoin layer-2 projects, crypto analytics firm Messari said in its “State of […]