A change in the Currituck County ordinances could stop hundreds of oceanfront property owners from building swimming pools. Construction of pools next to beach houses can gouge the dunes that help ...

Blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain have a maximum size of 1 MB. Proof of work difficulty is calibrated so 1 block is created every 10 minutes. It is generally accepted a miner would want to maximise the ...

Bitcoin mining pools are decentralized groups organized and operated by third parties to coordinate hash power from miners around the world and then share any resulting bitcoin in proportion to the ...

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading’s new algorithm, BlockStrike, aims to help clients trade in block size in today’s fragmented marketplace. BlockStrike places orders into dark pools seeking blocks ...

It is generally accepted that latency in block propagation is one of the bottlenecks for Bitcoin scaling. This is why many of Bitcoin's most active developers and researchers have presented a series ...

Bitcoin's mining concentration problem just showed up on the blockchain itself, triggering a small “reorg.” At the center of the story is Foundry USA, the largest bitcoin mining pool, representing a ...