Conducted research for underground mine studies and construction projects while serving
as mining support backup as and when required.
The network suffers because it operates at a much higher difficulty level with much
less mining support.
Amid growing discussion in the project's Slack channel, developer Jeff Garzik released a patch aimed at easing the creation of a bigger transaction block (though in the absence of
strong mining support, it's unlikely that the network will advance).
«Although several months ago, we developed a methodology for handling contentious hardforks, we will be applying a different methodology for what we regard as a spurious forking of the Bitcoin project with
little mining support.
The announcement of
AntPool mining support comes alongside the news that China's mining chip giant Bitmain, which owns AntPool, has launched a new mining hardware device, dubbed the AntMiner A3.
Furthermore, in Alaska's far north, there are no coal miners, no coal mining equipment,
no mining support businesses, no coal - transport facilities and no coal - loading piers.
Members of the Bitcoin Unlimited development team have stated that since Bitcoin miners provide security and oversight to the blockchain, the fork will only be considered after it receives more than 75 %
mining support.
Mining support is growing, more services integrate BCH support, and there do not appear to be any major network issues.