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Nov 15, 2018

An Introduction to Grin Proof-of-Work

Released on October 18, Grin Testnet 4 is the latest and supposedly last Grin test network. Among the other features announced such as BIP32 integration, this new release introduces a dual proof-of-work system. But what is it exactly? How does it work? In this…

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Quentin Le Sceller in BlockCypher Blog

Jan 8, 2019

Mining Grin on Grinmint — How to Request Payouts

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Catheryne Nicholson in BlockCypher Blog

Aug 23, 2017

Segwit @BlockCypher

As Segwit is nearing activation today on the Bitcoin network, BlockCypher is also getting ready to roll out support for the…

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Matthieu Riou in BlockCypher Blog

Nov 3, 2017

The Segwit2x Hard Fork

At block 494,784 the bitcoin blockchain will hard fork into 2 distinct chains, one supporting larger blocks up to 2MB…

Catheryne Nicholson in BlockCypher Blog

Sep 6, 2018

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…