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In September 2021, Ethereum, the second most popular crypto blockchain, recorded 1.2 million daily transactions. And this is almost twice the number of transactions recorded daily at the same time ...

Most people probably first heard of blockchain mining when Bitcoin began entering the mainstream in the late 2010s. Bitcoin, after all, was the only cryptocurrency in the beginning, and mining was the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Colin is the Editor-in-Chief of Blockspace Media After years of waiting, debating, and delays, Ethereum’s pending merge to ...

Some of the world's biggest Ethereum miners are looking to shift their computing power to cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) ahead of the network's move to a different type of consensus ...

The crypto mining space is approaching a key inflection point. There are currently two dominant proof of work-based coins, Bitcoin and Ethereum. Bitcoin’s consensus rules are immutable and ...

A deep dive into Zcash's zero-knowledge architecture, shielded transaction growth, and its path to becoming encrypted Bitcoin at scale.

After years of planning, Ethereum's much-anticipated switch from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake took place today. The "Merge" means that Ethereum mining is dead, which is good news ahead of new GPU ...

Ethereum developers today executed the “Merge,” an upgrade that eliminates mining and dramatically reduces the energy consumption of the world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency. Today’s action ...