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News.Bitcoin / Bitcoin Hashrate Down 45% – Miners Witness Second-Largest Difficulty Drop in History

March 27, 2020 / newsbitcoin

‘Buy Bitcoin’ Searches Skyrocket, Volumes Spike, Account Signups Swell As Coronavirus Fears Heighten Exchange data and statistics from Google Trends, Twitter, and Baidu show that despite the recent price drop…

News.Bitcoin / Coronavirus Quarantine Controls and Shipping Delays Impact Bitcoin Miners

February 21, 2020 / newsbitcoin

During the first week of February, a few of the top mining rig manufacturers from China revealed they were forced to postpone device shipments due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.…

News.Bitcoin / Developer Proposes Decentralized Bitcoin Hashrate Derivatives

January 20, 2020 / newsbitcoin

There’s a new concept called Powswap that lets people speculate on hashrate in order to hedge against price volatility. Powswap was developed by the software engineer Jeremy Rubin who believes…

Bitcoinist / Are Bitcoin Hash Rates and Difficulty Really Related to BTC Prices?

January 16, 2020 / bitcoinist

Today’s crypto pump may all be about the altcoins but on-chain bitcoin metrics have shown continual improvement over the past year. Hash rates are at all-time highs just as BTC…

Bitcoinist / What Will Bitcoin Difficulty Adjustment Mean For BTC Prices?

January 14, 2020 / bitcoinist

This week will see an adjustment in bitcoin difficulty which will affect miners and could influence prices. The asset just closed its first large green weekly candle for three months…