On the night of Wednesday, December 19, the difficulty of mining Bitcoin fell by 9.5%, which increased the profitability of mining the cryptocurrency. At the beginning of winter, the mining difficulty of Bitcoin underwent the second largest drop in its entire history — by 15%...

Intel has registered a patent for a processor and a hardware accelerator developed specifically for the SHA-256 encryption algorithm used in Bitcoin mining. This equipment is tailored for mining the leading cryptocurrency and is designed to make it more efficient and less energy-intensive...

Bitcoin cryptocurrency was created by anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. The main idea was to create a decentralized database copies of which will be stored by all participants in the system in an encrypted form. Units of payment are bitcoins. Bitcoins are stored on special wallets. All information about the transactions is available in the open mode while the wallets are completely anonymous.