Just a week after the Bitcoin network notched up another new hash rate high, it has done it again and this one is a bit of a milestone. Bitcoin Hash Rate Hits 80 EH/s For the first time ever, Bitcoin’s hash rate has topped 80 Exahashes per second. According to Bitinfocharts.com network hash rate hit…
The Bitcoin network is growing from strength to strength. One measure of this is hash rate which is the equivalent of network horsepower, and this metric has just reached another milestone. Bitcoin Network Keeps Cranking Hash rate in simple terms is the speed at which computers on the network operate. For miners, the higher the…
A man in China has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after stealing electricity from a train network in order to mine bitcoin. Xu Xinghua from Shanxi province pleaded guilty to stealing 104,000 yuan (£11,300), which was used to mine 3.2 bitcoins. At the current price of bitcoin, Mr Xinghua's bounty would be…