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The Bitcoin cloud mining service GigaHash has received their order of 52 units of Bitmain AntMiner S5 ASIC miners and they are already in operation a few days earlier than the initially promised date of no later than June 9th. Currently there are more than 48 THS worth of hashrate available for purchase as some of it was already purchased by users on pre-order. So at the moment the total Bitcoin mining hashrate that the service has is about 210 THS for Bitcoin mining. If you are interested in purchasing some hashrate at this smaller European mining operation you can now do so with a price of 0.00157500 BTC or about $0.37 USD per GHS with an unlimited term contract (until it is profitable to mine) with a daily maintenance fee of $0.00117 USD per GHS. The daily earnings of the service have been pretty stable lately at about 525-530 satoshi per GHS in the form of dividends that are paid after deducting the maintenance fee. We don’t know about you, but we are planning to increase our hashrate in the service as so far things are working great and problem free after our initial first month of testing and we see a nice potential for even further growth.

To check out the more details about the GigaHash Bitcoin Cloud Mining service…

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Gold has been used as an universal currency for thousands of years and during all this time the value of gold has remained relatively stable and that is precisely why it is a good choice for a reliable and secure long term investment. The same can be said about some other precious metals that such as Silver or Platinum as unlike fiat currency precious metals cannot be printed whenever you need more – there is a limited supply. Bitcoin, just like gold and other precious metals, has a limited supply and does sound like a good long term investment if you believe in the future of crypto currencies. But unlike gold, BTC and other crypto currencies are a more risky investment, though they can be more rewarding as their value is going up (it can go down as well). So a smart thing to do is to diversify your investment portfolio and not focus on only a single thing, so more and different crypto coins as well as turning some of the coins into an investment in gold or other precious metals would be a smart idea.

The good thing is that there are already quite a few precious metals dealers that accept not only Bitcoin but other cryptocurrencies as well, so it is relatively easy to turn your virtual crypto coins into physical Gold coins, for example, if you’re looking to buy gold coins Brisbane.

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When talking about precious metals dealers that do accept Bitcoins as a payment method one name is often cited in the world of crypto currencies and that is Amagi Metals. It may not be the first company to accept BTC for precious metal purchases, but it is one of the most trusted names in the community when talking about spending Bitcoins to buy precious metals. Now, purchasing precious metals such as Gold can be done using various payment methods such as with a Bank Wire, Personal Check, Money Order and Cashier’s Check, PayPal or by Credit Card, but using BTC has some advantages. usually if you purchase Gold using Bitcoin you can have a higher purchasing amount, there are no extra processing fees (you might even get a discount off the regular price) and the payment clearing time is shorter, so that you can get your precious metal coins or bars shipped to you faster. So if you are interested in purchasing some Gold or other precious metals using BTC as a payment method you check out Amagi Metals as a good starting point, the company is based in Denver, Colorado, USA, however they are shipping worldwide.

Now if you are not based in USA you might want to order from a precious metals dealer that accepts Bitcoin payments and is closer to you to avoid possible problems with customs, so for example if you are based in Europe and a part of the European Union you might go for Bit Gild who are based in Netherlands. There are of course some other precious metal dealers that accept crypto currencies such as Bitcoin that you might want to check out, so you can also look at the offers from Provident Metals or a company previously known as Euro Pacific Precious Metals and now ShiffGold, both USA-based or Bitcoin Commodities shipping form EU and USA or Bullion Star based in Asia and quite a few more. There is another interesting new alternative to just purchasing Gold and getting it physically sent to you, the service BitGold offers you to purchase Gold with fiat and BTC and you can not only store it in your account or redeem it in physical form should you decide you want it, but also use it as a means for digital payments.

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The chart above shows an estimation of the Bitcoin hashrate distribution amongst the largest mining pools according to the Blockchain website. It might not be 100% accurate, but should give you a good idea about the situation and what are the trends. It is clearly visible that over 50% of the network hashrate is concentrated in four main pools – F2Pool, AntPool, BTCChina Pool and BW.com. These are the largest Chinese pools and though some users from all around the world could be mining there as well, the reason for them having such big part of the total hashrate is most likely due to the fact that probably most large Asian-based mining operations are using them. The situation with previously quite big European or US-based mining pools is currently not so favorable and this is probably a direct result from the fact that home mining is getting less and less attractive for users and things are moving more to large scale industrial mining operations.

We wan to to turn your attention to the KnCMiner mining pool that currently has about 5% of the total Bitcoin network hashrate and it apparently the fifth largest Bitcoin mining pool. it is important to note this fact as the pool is not open to anyone to mine in it, it is essentially a private mining pool where KnC is mining for themselves as the company no longer sells mining hardware to end users or other mining farms. KnCMiner is now a “Bitcoin transaction processing technology provider” instead of just Bitcoin ASIC manufacturer, and they have just recently announced their plans to build more datacenters and deploy their new 16nm ASIC chips. This means that KnC will continue to grow their capacity and their mining power especially now that they have probably the fastest and most efficient ASIC available only for themselves.

To see a more up to date chart on the current Bitcoin pool hashrate distribution…

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