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After years of waiting, debating, and delays, Ethereum’s pending merge to proof-of-stake finally has a launch date. Now, Ethereums’s miners are finally going to have to answer a multi-billion dollar ...

Most people probably first heard of blockchain mining when Bitcoin began entering the mainstream in the late 2010s. Bitcoin, after all, was the only cryptocurrency in the beginning, and mining was the ...

Despite the bankruptcies, hacks and general foul mood in crypto, one metric is moving in the right direction. As we talked about earlier this year, ethereum — the world’s second-largest crypto network ...

Arrow Glacier, an upgrade to the Ethereum network, activated on Thursday. The upgrade pushes back the so-called "difficulty bomb," which could potentially slow or freeze mining on Ethereum, back to ...

Altair, an important upgrade to the Ethereum network, went live on Wednesday. Following, the price of ether hit an all-time high of over $4,416 on Friday, according to CoinGecko. It's currently ...

MIAMI — AntPool, the mining pool affiliated with mining rig giant Bitmain, has invested $10 million to support the Ethereum Classic ecosystem and plans to continue investing more, the pool's CEO, Leon ...

Ethereum miners are facing an abrupt change after the network moves to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism from a proof-of-work (PoW) system and their role effectively ends, forcing them to ...

Ethereum developers today executed the “Merge,” an upgrade that eliminates mining and dramatically reduces the energy consumption of the world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency. Today’s action ...