As if Bitmain’s year hasn’t been rough enough, having posted big losses and laying off entire departments, its flagship product now has a firmware vulnerability. A few weeks ago, Bitcoin Core ...

The events surrounding the August 1 deadline for the showdown between the UAHF (user-activated hard fork) and UASF (user-activated soft fork) have been widely publicized, with detractors on both sides ...

AntPool, one of the largest cryptocurrency mining pools, has announced it will now support the siacoin token. The announcement of AntPool mining support comes alongside the news that China's mining ...

Bitmain has finally released its firmware for the popular Antminer S9 to enable what is called "overt AsicBoost." In a recent blog post, Bitmain explains their rationale for the firmware release, ...

Over the weekend, information surfaced that could suggest that mining giant Bitmain may be facing an uphill battle as it looks to launch an IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Newly leaked public ...

Chinese mining giant Bitmain caught the mining community off guard on Wednesday with the surprise launch of a new cryptocurrency miner. The infamous Chinese company has had a chequered past among the ...