
Article by Jacob Rozen
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29 December, 2020
Ex-Core Scientific veterans lead block reward mining startup Blockcap
By leveraging its newly assembled hashing power, the company expects to benefit from the economies of scale in purchasing equipment...
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28 December, 2020
Rumors swirl of potential settlement in Bitmain’s civil war
Bitmain co-founders Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan reportedly reached a settlement that ends their messy long-running feud around who will...
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28 December, 2020
2020 year in review: Esports popularity surges to new highs
Even during the global economic downturn, esports' popularity surged to new highs, intensified by the restrictions imposed by the pandemic.
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26 December, 2020
Riot Blockchain testing new immersion cooling system
U.S.-based Riot Blockchain recently announced it would soon test a new 8-megawatt immersion cooling technology at their Texas facility.
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24 December, 2020
ASIC server arms race keeps rising as Core Scientific binges on servers
Core Scientific is planning to increase current capacity by threefold by purchasing over 58,000 ASIC hardware miners from Bitmain.
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23 December, 2020
Poor business model, not COVID-19 behind Hyperblock early struggles
A vendor has taken Hyperblock to court, alleging the owner concocted a scheme to keep them from paying the debt...
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