TheEthereumnetwork is set to implement an upgrade called Arrow Glacier on Dec. 9, 2021. A key impact of this upgrade is that it will delay the onset of a so-called "difficulty bomb"—which would hamper or halt further mining of itsEther(ETH)cryptocurrency—to June 2022.1"After the transition, the 'bomb' will no longer ex

Bitcoin mining companies are now increasingly experimenting with immersion cooling, a form of cooling that allows them to get more hashpower out of existing miners. According to industry insiders, this cooling alternative will become mainstream in the future, as leading companies are already taking advantage and retrof

Focus is now “exclusively on The Merge,” says Ethereum community manager as the deadline for the next stage of the transition to Eth2 grows closer.The Ethereum community has been hard at work over the past few years, laying the foundation for its shift away from its current proof-of-work (PoW) algorithm which has forme

Raoul Pal/Real Vision/YoutubeEther could rise as much as 300% by the end of the year, according to Real Vision co-founder Raoul Pal.Pal tweeted on Wednesday that ether now is comparable to bitcoin in 2017 when BTC rose by that amount.Ether has seen all-time highs recently, as non-fungible token and metaverse momentum h

ETH price dropped to $4,400 during the Nov. 11 correction, but data shows traders expect the altcoin to surpass $5,000 soon.Ether (ETH) bulls seem excited by the recent $4,870 all-time high that was hit on Nov. 10. While it was a new high in U.S. dollar terms, ETH is still 51% below June 2017’s price in Bitcoin (BTC) t

Paraguay is one of the destinations being considered by various companies for setting up their bitcoin mining operations. Last week, Chinese company Future Fintech announced formal plans to build a bitcoin mining facility in the country, explaining they were determining the best location for the upcoming farm. In June,

Photo byRebcenteronPixabayThe following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga.You don’t have to be an aficionado of the financial markets to know that cryptocurrency is booming.AsBitcoinbreaks the $60,000 mark, million

PRQ, HNS and NEAR lead the altcoin market as interoperability and Web 3.0 functionality begin to emerge as the next hot trend in the crypto sector.The cryptocurrency market is abuzz on Oct. 25 as the sight of multiple altcoins hitting new all-time highs and Bitcoin's (BTC) return to $63,000 has traders looking for a re

The world's second most valuable cryptocurrency, Ether, has been touching all-time highs in price ahead of a major upgrade of its underlying platform,Ethereum.Ether is currently worth in aggregate just shy of US$500 billion (£363 billion). That's still slightly less than half that of the biggest cryptocurrency,Bitcoin.

On October 22 at 4:52 p.m. (EDT), a miner that acquired 50 bitcoin on May 17, 2010, spent the funds that sat idle for 11 years and five months. There hasn’t been a 2010 block reward spent in three months and the last time a 2010 miner spent their ‘sleeping bitcoin’ was on July 4, 2021. After waiting patiently for more