Yet, still others — like Gavin Andresen — believe that bigger blocks are not significantly better
for bigger miners.
Not exact matches
«UNPRECEDENTED» would be an apt word to describe demand
for the services of family owned and operated Wallis Drilling, which has done surface drilling work
for some of the
biggest open - pit
miners sinc
If support
for «2x» part falls apart, either the
miners or developers could walk away from the agreement, rekindling worries of a
bigger split that rocked the currency in mid July.
Gold
miner Troy Resources has warned of a
big hit to its production guidance
for 2016 after facing a number of delays at its Karouni operation in Guyana.
The world's
biggest miner, BHP, said it would invest significantly in its nickel business as demand
for electric vehicles picked up, Reuters reported.
The deal
for the Canadian
miner was one of the
biggest takeovers of a Canadian corporate household name and prompted much hand wringing about foreign ownership.
If you're not a
miner, but a concerned investor like myself, then please spread this message far and wide, and ask the
miners and pools that you know
for bigger blocks.
For example
miners who can access the cheapest electricity will tend to succeed and that
bigger miners will be able to find this cheaper electricity easier.
An even
bigger concern is the fact that
miners will create new mining hardware and mining software which circumvent newer ASIC - resistant algorithms, making the centralization of mining possible again and making the efforts put forth by cryptocurrency project teams essentially all
for naught.
While much of the market's recent focus has been on the hefty short - term gains generated by
big miners BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals, Credit Suisse thinks it's time
for African gold
miner Perseus Mining and graphite play Syrah Resources to surprise with strong returns.
Some poor girl... or sheep... has to listen to him rant and spew, eyes bulging, talking non-stop, adamantly raging on about how Russian
miners have heard the screams of hell and how some ancient vanished superrace made the pyramids and modern man couldn't which means evolution is wrong... she'd be wondering if she should just run
for it, or does he have a
big kitchen knife on him ready to use if she does... there she sits, with that «please - don «t - stab - me - repeatedly smile on he fear - petrified face...
Jock Stein, a
big, intimidatingly sharp
miner from Lanarkshire, was a highly competent but unbrilliant defender
for Celtic, As manager, he has been miraculously successful.
old soul at that, that went from car mechanic restorating muscle vehicles, to all out rock
miner, welding, demolitions,
big equipment operator - my point is that I'm mighty good with my hands:) Currently however
for the past 2 years...
For our recent report on a Canadian penny stock with a big project in progress, read Junior miner aims for big payoff in the Yu
For our recent report on a Canadian penny stock with a
big project in progress, read Junior
miner aims
for big payoff in the Yu
for big payoff in the Yukon
The
big miners and banks have been the main drivers of ASX market returns
for more than a decade.
If correct, it would mean an increase of nearly 11 per cent on Tuesday's record price of $ 1,307 an ounce, triggering
big profits
for the world's largest gold
miners, such as Barrick Gold, Newmont Mining and AngloGold Ashanti.
As much as the
big - picture crowd likes to hammer away at stocks, they do have a soft spot
for stocks with tangible assets — like gold
miners and oil stocks.
West Virginia's Upper
Big Branch mine, the site of last year's disaster (in which 29
miners were killed - the worst in 40 years), was a Massey mine that had been cited numerous times
for violations during the year leading up to the tragedy.
The mining giant has called
for government subsidies to increase South Australia's power supply reliability and prevent costly outages like the one that wiped $ US105 million off the
big miner's first - half profit.
Not sure this has or ever will translate into a vote
for carbon pricing or support
for stronger national or international emissions targets or even clear support
for renewables and an end to subsidies
for fossil fuel
miners and
big users.
RAN activists were present to ensure that Massey's controversial CEO, Don Blankenship, was held accountable
for his role in the April 5, 2010 Upper
Big Branch mine explosion where 29
miners tragically died.
Well, these lawyers may be off the hook, but the news isn't all good
for the mining industry, and especially
for former Massey Energy head Don Blankenship, which ran the Upper
Big Branch mine when an explosion killed 29 Massey
miners.
Chip maker AMD has seen its sales buoyed in recent months by
big demand
for graphics cards by cryptocurrency
miners.
For those who think only bigger blocks will save bitcoin's exchange rate, and for miners who are going to decide on whether or not they should adopt SegWit, this is important to understand.&raq
For those who think only
bigger blocks will save bitcoin's exchange rate, and
for miners who are going to decide on whether or not they should adopt SegWit, this is important to understand.&raq
for miners who are going to decide on whether or not they should adopt SegWit, this is important to understand.»
China might not have welcomed the crypto phenomenon with open arms but it has remained to be one of the
biggest bitcoin mining what sources where
miners flock in
for solving complex mathematical riddles using their computer and are awarded in terms of virtual coins
for their efforts.
The main advocates
for the
bigger blocks, aka B2X, are consortiums of bitcoin
miners who use specialized computer rigs to compile transactions on the blockchain — and earn bitcoins (currently valued at around $ 7,400) while doing so.
But when he heard that
miner demand was causing monthlong backlogs on certain computer components, he realized it was a
big,
big moment - not
for bitcoin, but
for litecoin.
Bigger picture aside, the conversation around sales to
miners is not that important
for Nvidia, Huang argued, noting that «to us, it's all just demand
for GPUs.»
One user even observed when switching pools that mining profitability has decreased
for smaller pools, which is potentially a concern
for an ecosystem that doesn't want
bigger miners to have more control.
This leads to
bigger profits
for the selfish
miner, and it may also lead to other
miners joining the selfish
miner's pool, thus providing that group of
miners with a greater share of the network hashrate.
And the promise of turning
big payoffs from buying Bitcoin into real - world cash has created a technological arms race among currency
miners, a shortage of computers
for scientists, and that, in sum, is worse
for the environment than gold mining.
Clubbing your resources with other
miners will give you a better chance to earn
bigger rewards
for completing blocks on the blockchain.
«The
biggest barriers
for the blind are accessibility,» Craig McGee, a bitcoin
miner in the United Kingdom, told Bitcoin.com.
If support
for «2x» part falls apart, either the
miners or developers could walk away from the agreement, rekindling worries of a
bigger split that rocked the currency in mid July.
Demand from cryptocurrency
miners for GPU maker Nvidia's products was
bigger than anticipated in the fourth quarter of last year.
Indeed, Mosher, whose company sells chips to
miners big and small, said his customers largely have a preference
for bitcoin cash, and he noted he sees them participating in the build - up of what he called a «long - term infrastructure play.»
Russian Cryptocurrency
miners are taking leases of
big companies operating power plants
for diverting the excess energy production to mining of cryptocurrencies.
The owner of «MC pool» who wishes to remain anonymous started BCH mining along with his «
big miner friends» just «
for fun».
But if you're wiring $ 50,000 to your bank, you could still use Bitcoin
for the increased security that comes from a
bigger network of decentralized
miners.
The discord between Bitcoin Core and
miners who desire
bigger blocks will continue to simmer but will not boil over into another cathartic event like UASF
for now.
As touched on earlier, a downside to on - chain scaling is that the overall size of the blockchain will grow faster with
bigger blocks, requiring more hardware storage capacity
for miners in the somewhat distant future.
The most important rule
for mining is still: «If you are the most efficient
miner you will be able to continue mining while others need to step out leaving you a
bigger share of the pie.»»
China is said to account
for over 35 % of all Bitcoin trades and is also home to many of the world's
biggest bitcoin
miners — The people who keep the whole bitcoin show running.
Consider this, if a majority of
miners use hardware that was built by a
big name manufacturer, this manufacturer could quite possibly come under pressure from governments to allow
for killswitches to be installed in the hardware they produce.
If,
for any reason, Bitcoin doesn't hard fork in November as scheduled
for SegWit2x,
miners who support
big blocks might go ahead and launch the hard fork anyway.
As the Bitcoin network gets
bigger, the hash gets more complex, and
miners get fewer Bitcoins
for their trouble, hence they always need better hardware and higher Bitcoin prices to make it worthwhile.
The
big elephant in the room has been the
big scaling debate between developers and
miners for the past two years.
The difficulty concern is the
biggest flaw in the blockchain network with the high demand of the
miners mining raising the difficulty level of solving the block
for completing verifying the transaction as a result required
miner with increasing computing power.
Because electricity is one of the
biggest costs
for any bitcoin
miner, if hardware power efficiency can double every three years, the researchers predict the minimum required price
for new entrant profitability could drop to $ 530.