Mining Weekly Report: Ant Pool website is newly redesigned and launched (August 12-August 19)

As of 10:00 am on August 19, the total hashrate of Bitcoin network is 71.24EH/s. The current difficulty of the whole network is 10.18T. It is predicted that the difficulty will be increased by 2.14% to 10.40T next time. There are 14 days and 1 hour left before the adjustment.

The following figure shows the weekly dynamics of mainstream currencies from August 5 to August 12, 2019

Weekly News

AntPool website 3.0 is now online

This week, AntPool official website 3.0 was launched

The interface has been overhauled.

I can confirm from my eyes that this is a new version of the ship that you have never seen before!

Several highlights of the major revision of AntPool's official website......

Posting fake profit screenshots to lure investors, three men set up a Bitcoin scam and made a profit of 150,000

According to media reports, the victim was provided with profit orders through WeChat groups, pretending to be a mentor to provide guidance, and lured the victim to recharge and invest on the "BtcClub" platform, and defrauded money by setting the background bitcoin price increase and decrease. After the Ninghai County Procuratorate of Zhejiang Province filed a public prosecution, the Ninghai County Court recently sentenced the defendants Liu and Chen to three years and six months in prison for fraud and fined them 20,000 yuan; the defendant Mao was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for fraud and fined 15,000 yuan.

Cloud computing platform evaluation | Issue 1 | Which cloud computing platform has the best returns

Platform soft power

The first phase of cloud computing power evaluation will conduct a comprehensive analysis and evaluation of mainstream cloud computing power platforms from three perspectives: revenue, operation, and miner services. Through analysis and comparison, the operational soft power of each cloud computing power platform will be obtained for reference by miners.

Cloud computing platform evaluation | Second issue | Theoretical rate of return beesbit rockminer bitcoin.com

In the second phase of cloud computing power evaluation, Sir will conduct a profit evaluation on beesbit, rockminer, and bitcoin.com cloud computing power platforms for reference by all miners.

The Bitcoin Mining Index has continued to grow in recent years. How will it perform in 2019?

Mining pools and ASICs change the rules of the game

Generally speaking, miners in large mining pools come from all over the world. Before 2010, people could mine Bitcoin with central processing units (CPUs); afterwards, an anonymous person named Artforz used graphics processing units (GPUs) to mine Bitcoin, which became a hot topic in the Bitcoin community. In July 2010, Artforz said he mined 1,700 Bitcoins in 6 days, accounting for about 4% of the world's computing power. In less than three months, someone claimed that "Artfarm" controlled 20-30% of the computing power of the entire network.