A Brief History of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Mining - Helena Bitcoin Mining
When I first heard about bitcoin in 2012 I thought it sounded interesting. I watched a few videos, skimmed the white paper, then bookmarked it away. The next time I would hear about the digital currency was sometime in the middle of 2013, but this time I would see it in a different way, and the potential was obvious. I needed to learn more. Looking beyond the value…
When Jarred Spriggs and Charles Wakefield co-founded Smartbit, in 2013, it was the first blockchain explorer in Australia. Having grown ever since, it now offers more data in the form of a search engine, an API, lots of charts and graphs, and a bitcoin Block Explorer that provides lightning-quick access to most types of data on the bitcoin blockchain. Smartbit had…
Ivan is from Croatia, born and raised in Zagreb, where he graduated in Economics. His family is in the publishing business (school books and other educational materials) for over 4 decades. He mostly works in marketing, and he intends to be among the first to apply blockchain technology to schoolbooks/textbooks to help young generations get as much as knowledge possible…
2016 has been an excellent year for Bitcoin in many respects. Scalability innovations like Segregated Witness have been introduced to the Bitcoin community, many successful Blockchain and Lightning Network tests have taken place and many new markets have turned to Bitcoin as a viable currency option. The price of Bitcoin has been a major positive in 2016 as well…
With the Bitcoin price continuing its upward trend, the question becomes how profitable it is to start mining again. With the Bitcoin halving nearly upon us, that question may have multiple answers, and comprise of both positive and negative aspects. Cloud mining could be well worth getting involved in, depending on how the mining landscape evolves in the next few…
David Ryder / Getty Images Katrina Caudle celebrates after using the world s first bitcoin ATM at Waves Coffee House on October 29, 2013 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Bitcoins took yet another step toward mainstream use on Tuesday, as the world’s first ATM converting the virtual currency to conventional cash, and vice versa, was introduced at a coffee shop…
Bitcoin has had a very volatile trading history since it was first created in 2009. The alternative currency has seen a lot of action in its fairly short life. Bitcoins initially traded for next to nothing. The first real price increase occurred in July 2010 when bitcoins went from around $0.8 to $0.08 for a single coin. The currency has seen some major rallies and…
The FutureBit MoonLander is an ASIC Scrypt USB stick miner made by jstefanop on Bitcointalk that is based on a single Alcheminer AlcheMist Scrypt ASIC chip. A small SCrypt-based ASIC miner intended to provide a hashrate between 0.4 and 1.2 MHS with a power usage of about 5W per megahash. The device is user overclockable with voltage adjustment available via a variable…
In this D3js tutorial, we’re going to dive a bit deeper with the power of D3js, showing how graphs on web pages can be interactive and display an array of time plot data using a standard Cartesian coordinate system in an easily understandable fashion. Unfortunately, once a user has loaded a web graph, the data is already stale and the user would normally need to refresh…
Q. How long does it take to withdrawal Bitcoin from my Magnr Account? A. Under normal circumstances, it can take up to 24 hours to process a Withdrawal as all user requests are audited for security purposes . Why up to 24 hours? Withdrawal Requests are processed during office our hours of between 09:00 - 17:00 GMT, Monday - Friday. Since Withdrawal Requests are queued…
Many people would like to stay anonymous when buying stuff around the web for different reasons. The problem with Bitcoin is that it’s not completely anonymous. Once a Bitcoin exchange requests identifiable information such as an email address, government id or a utility bills they can know and track every movement of your Bitcoins. That’s why today I’m going to go…
