Mining

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Companies

Binance Pool stopped at 07:00 UTC on 10 November. A product closure is not the hack.

Binance Pool, Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, and Transaction Accelerator stopped at 07:00 UTC on 10 November, as announced on 13 October. Shares after the cutoff are not credited. This is not the October theft.EasyCryptoGuides · 10 Nov 2026, 07:00 UTC · 3 min read

Mining

What is crypto mining?

Proof-of-work mining is a race to propose the next block, paid in new coins and fees. Pools are companies. Energy use is a values argument. The engineering claim is narrower: rewriting history is supposed to be expensive.EasyCryptoGuides · 10 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

Regulation

China told miners to leave. Hashrate moved. The protocol did not.

Vice-Premier Liu He’s committee named mining in a risk list. Provinces that hosted the world’s hash began to shut barns. Bitcoin kept producing blocks at whatever hash remained.EasyCryptoGuides · 21 May 2021, 14:00 UTC · 1 min read

Bitcoin

Bitcoin block halving, explained without the countdown clock

The 2020 halving was 11 May. Another happened in 2024. Halvings are how Bitcoin’s issuance slows. They are not a strategy.EasyCryptoGuides · 23 Apr 2020 · 3 min read