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At a time when Bitcoin (BTC) mining is dominated by large-scale mining farms with advanced, specialized hardware, the odds of a solo miner striking the so-called digital gold are astronomically low.

Today, DEMAND (DMND), backed by venture bitcoin capital firm Trammell Venture Partners, launched the first Stratum V2 Bitcoin mining pool built on the Stratum Reference Implementation (SRI), to ...

A solo Bitcoin miner successfully mined Bitcoin block 887,212 using a pocket-sized Bitaxe machine and banked around $263,000. A solo Bitcoin miner using a relatively cheap, pocket-sized crypto mining ...