Posts Tagged Merged-Mining

NimbleCoin can be Bitcoin’s Best Friend

The debate of what will happen with Bitcoin hashing power when the reward is halved around August 2016 is starting to boil in the bitcointalk forums. Some questions have been risen about the security of CPU-friendly alt-coins, such as LiteCoin and DogeCoin in the long run. The problem was summarized in one sentence: If the […]

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Safe merged-mining and the Bitcoin’s Karma

In this post I will depart shortly from my classical technical viewpoint and enter the quicksands of opinions. But I’ll come back, don’t worry. The idea of the proof-of-work powered block-chain, while powerful, has lead us to a situation where many people sees Bitcoin mining as a wasteful and vicious activity. Articles against Bitcoin mining […]

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