Bitcoin Mining

Meet the 21 companies you’ve never heard of that are battling to control bitcoin — Rob Price, www.businessinsider.com

Short backgrounders on the top bitcoin mining pools.

Bitcoin Is Unsustainable — Christopher Malmo, motherboard.vice.com

Computer cooling firm Allied Control estimates the total power consumption of the Bitcoin network at 250 to 500 Megawatts. Looking at the total hashrate, which is the number of calculations the network can perform per second, and applying a generous miner…

EBA: 51% Attack Remains Bitcoin’s Biggest Problem — Emily Spaven, www.coindesk.com

The head of the European Banking Agency last week revived anxieties over a so-called 51 percent attack on the Bitcoin network, challenging assurances that mining monopolies commanding more than half of all computing resources required to make…

Why upgrade to 8MB but not 20MB? * /r/Bitcoin — www.reddit.com

China’s five largest mining pools gathered today at the National Conference Center in Beijing to hold a technical discussion about the ramifications of increasing the max block size on the Bitcoin network. In attendance were F2Pool, BW, BTCChina, Huobi.com, and…