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List of Top Largest Holding Bitcoin Wallet Addresses

13, Jul 2016

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Do you wonder how much actually the top bagholders of Bitcoin have? Here is a fun fact – the top 100 wallet addresses hold over 3 Million BTC or with other words close to about 1/5 of all of the available coins. The USD equivalent of these Bitcoins is estimated at over 2 Billion USD, so definitely a very serious amount held by just 100 persons (or less actually). Moving over to the top 500 richest persons in Bitcoin we see tat the total amount of BTC they hold is close to about 5 Million or about 1/3 of all BTC estimated at about 3.3 Billion USD at the moment. So you can say that Bitcoin wealth distribution is similar to that of the fiat distribution, there are a couple of hundred people that are holding a serious amount of BTC and a lot more smaller owners of the rest.

– You can dig deeper into the richlist of Bitcoin wallet addresses here…

Wolf Has Publicly Released OpenCL Optimized Kernels

9, Jul 2016

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Released under the MIT license for educational purposes, the collected kernels of Wolf are now available on GitHub for public download. The list includes optimized OpenCL kernels for a number of crypto algorithms: AES, Blake, BMW, CubeHash, Echo, Fugue, Groestl, Hamsi, JH, Luffa, Shabal, Shavite, Simd, Skein and Whirlpool. The OpenCL kernels need to be integrated into a miner like sgminer and some extra tweaking might be required, so they are more interesting for developers that are willing to optimize the performance of their own miners. They are even useful in understanding how some optimizations work and may be applied to other algorithms as well, so a good learning tool, at least for developers. If you find something useful or just want to send a tip to Wolf you can do so to his BTC address here: 1WoLFumNUvjCgaCyjFzvFrbGfDddYrKNR.

– TO visit the GitHub repository with the released optimized OpenCL kernels by Wolf…

The Second Bitcoin Block Reward Halving is Upon Us

6, Jul 2016

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The second Bitcoin block reward halving is going to happen in a bit less than 3 days from now with a little over 400 blocks remaining. The amount of Bitcoins rewarded for each block decreases over time, getting halved once every 210000 blocks (approximately every four years). When Bitcoin was created in 2009, the initial block reward was 50 BTC, then in November 2012, it dropped to 25 BTC after the first halving. As a result of the block reward getting reduced once more in a few days finding a new Bitcoin block will start rewarding the miner that found it with just 12.5 BTC instead of 25 BTC like it is still at the moment. Following this development in 4 more years or sometime in 2020 the next Bitcoin block reward halving is expected to take place further reducing the block reward in half to just 6.25 BTC and so on. This will continue until the total limit of 21 million Bictoins are mined, though this will take quite a lot of years. The total number of BTC after the halving of the block reward should be about 15 Million and 750 Thousands out of the 21 Million total and with the continuing reduction of the reward over time the remaining over 5 Million of coins will take years and years and more halvings to be mined (estimated time is around 2140).

– One more useful website dedicated to tracking the Bitcoin block reward halving…


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