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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) mining requires three things: a dedicated mining setup (rig) or a mining pool that does all the heavy lifting, a wallet for collecting the reward and a robust infrastructure to host ...

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Bitcoin mining pools are decentralized groups organized and operated by third parties to coordinate hash power from miners around the world and then share any resulting bitcoin in proportion to the ...

A Bitcoin miner is heating his entire swimming pool so his kids can swim—all while securing the Bitcoin network and making money. A Bitcoiner has "pooled" off another mining innovation. The "waste" ...