Bitmain

The share of the Bitmain-controlled mining pools of BTC.com and Antpool in the total bitcoin hash rate is about 29%. According to analysts of The Block, in the first half of last year, the total hashrate of these two pools was 42%. If we take into account the pool ViaBTC, the main investor of which is Bitmain, then a year ago the Chinese giant could control at least 50% of the hashrate. […]

Based in Las Vegas, Hosho laid off more than 30 employees, reducing staff numbers by 80%. It is reported by CoinDesk. The company claims that in the 17 months of its existence Hosho conducted an audit of so many smart contracts that any other firm from the blockchain industry could hardly make. “In conducting an audit of many ICOs, we thought that we were going to go […]

In 2018, the number of companies working with cryptocurrencies and distributed registry technology in Switzerland and Liechtenstein reached 750. According to a report by the Swiss investment consortium Crypto Valley Venture Capital, this is 121 firms or 20% more than in 2017. The 50 largest companies of Cryptodolins make up about one fifth of the cryptocurrency market. In this case, four companies – Bitmain, Cardano, […]