Early bitcoin miners could mine 50 bitcoins per block using low-powered computers. Back then, the payout for mining just one block would be worth millions of dollars today. But at the time, bitcoin ...

Quantum computers pose a genuine long-term risk to bitcoin, but current fears often conflate wallet vulnerabilities with largely impractical threats to mining. New research finds that a quantum 51% ...

Bitcoin's most contentious governance fight in nearly a decade produced a two-block ghost chain over the weekend of August 8–9, 2026 — and by Monday morning, its backers had announced something more ...