BlockCypher Blog

BlockCypher Ethereum Outage Post-Mortem 2020–11–11

On Monday November 11, BlockCypher Ethereum API experienced a severe service disruption as a consequence of an unplanned hard fork on the Ethereum network. We understand that a lot of platforms and projects rely on BlockCypher APIs. And as…

To Catch a Thief

Hunting for an attacker leads to a Grin bug

At the end of April, something was wrong at Grinmint. Our pool luck was terrible and our calculations for profitability weren’t adding up. We estimated that around 10% of our pool hashrate was off…

Grin Mining Pool Profitability

Depending on the price of the cryptocurrency you’re mining, margins can be razor thin or highly…

Grin Mining Software Performance Update #1

Ethereum Woes

BlockCypher’s Ethereum API was knocked out for almost a month due to the Constantinople Hard Fork. This post-mortem explains what…

Mining Grin on Grinmint — How to Request Payouts