Mon, Jul 13 2020

Two months after the network's halving event, it's harder than ever to mine bitcoin. Bitcoin mining difficulty, a measure of how hard it is to compete for block rewards on the network, just set a new record high of 17.35 trillion around 12:00 UTC…

Pascal Hügli is the Chief Research Officer at Schlossberg&Co, in Switzerland, and author of the book Ignore at Your Own Risk: The New Decentralized World of Bitcoin and Blockchain. Tribal fighting between Bitcoiners and Ethereans is unabated.

Three global industry leaders in telecommunications — Spain's Telefónica, Deutsche Telekom, and British provider Vodafone — have jointly finalized a trial blockchain solution for the settlement of roaming discount agreements.

The number of addresses holding a large number of bitcoins, popularly known as whales, has declined to 14-month lows. However, the drop isn't necessarily a price-bearish development and may instead that the distribution of bitcoin ownership is…

“What's the price of those Bitcoin's you keep talking about?” a friend asks me. I look at my phone and it's still averaging around $9,200. “About the same as last month mate,” I replied. Bitcoin (BTC) price has hardly…