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What is PPLNS in Bitcoin Mining

Please note: At this stage, bitcoin mining can only make sense using dedicated ASIC hardware. Trying to do this on your computer or desktop GPU will probably just damage your hardware or shorten it’s lifetime, …

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Eclipse Mining Consortium (Eclipse MC) Mining Pool Review

May 2018 Update – Unfortunately Eclipse MC stopped running some time ago, this article remains online as a reference. A look at Eclipse Mining Consortium’s Mining Pool Please note: This review is based on a relatively …

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What is PPS in Bitcoin Mining

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Mining Pool 2014 Market Share

THESE STATS HAVE BEEN SUPERCEDED BY A NEW SERIES STARTING HERE In this short piece, we have a look at the Bitcoin Mining annual market share, as reported by blocktrail.com. Given that it’s the second of …

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For the second fortnight, bitcoin difficulty drops, after briefly going over 40 billion difficulty

Where is Bitcoin in it’s lifecycle? A comparison with the games industry

If you have been paying notice to the bitcoin difficulty recently, something of a watershed moment has occured. After a year of endlessly increasing difficulty as newer, more powerful and power efficient bitcoin mining hardware piled into the …

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If you're just getting started with cryptocurrency, there are several methods to get your first couple of euro of cryptocurrency to put in your wallet.

Did you know that the Crypto part of Revolut has a section called Learn? You can earn around €10 in free crypto from doing some lessons (and they've recently finally added the option to withdraw your bitcoin from your account to an external wallet address! )

Want to use your computer to mine cryptocurrency? Cudominer lets you mine a variety of cryptocurrencies. Read our Cudominer Review to see how it works. Note, this could potentially cause damage to your machine as we learned the hard way so do it at your own risk.

If you want to try a faucet to earn small amounts of crypto which pay out when you reach a certain threshold of bitcoin, you can roll the dice and potentially get up to $100 in bitcoin once an hour by registering with Free Bitco.in and doing their roll. Once you earn 0.0003 bitcoin, this is transferred to your nominated wallet.