Ocean Mining reports that a small, $500 application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) Nerdminer, humming along at about 5 terahash per second (TH/s), managed to hit a block — a feat that would typically…

Since Jan. 3, 2009, the Bitcoin network has mined over 910,000 blocks, with nine well-known mining pools responsible for discovering 48.78% of them. The following highlights the top ten entities that have…

Four days ago, Bitcoin’s hashrate hit an all-time high of 976 exahash per second (EH/s), but it has since cooled, settling in the 900 EH/s range. Mining Metrics Flash Mixed Signals as…