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Bitcoin difficulty rises 5.54% to 148.36 trillion: the forecast is now a real adjustment
Block 973728, timestamped October 29 at 19:14:58 UTC, starts the new difficulty epoch. At unchanged hashrate, the subsidy-only expected BTC yield per unit of work falls about 5.25%.
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SRBMiner 3.8.2 revises the power tuner and targets NVIDIA 5000-series Pearl mining
The October 29 release improves the efficiency tuner, lists minor pearlhash improvements for NVIDIA 5000-series GPUs and fixes bugs. It supplies no numerical speed or power-saving guarantee.
Ofgem plans energy-debt relief for spring 2027: what home miners should check now
The October 29 announcement targets hardship and crisis-era debt in Great Britain, alongside billing and payment reforms. It changes the outlook for household bills, not the current electricity price of a mining rig.
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Bitcoin Core fixes three node vulnerabilities: check the version, OS and storage
October 28 advisories identify two memory-exhaustion issues and an impractical undo-file attack. Fixes are in 29.5, 30.4, 31.2 and 32.1, with remaining limits on 32-bit systems and FAT32.
Singapore police report S$3.5 million lost through tampered Ledger wallets
An October 28 police advisory describes at least two cases reported since September 10 and malicious components found in retail-bought devices. Mining payouts need a trustworthy receiving wallet as well as a correct address.
QBT reports live mining tests on an Antminer S9 and Bitaxe Gamma; measured gains are still pending
The October 29 update says Methods A, B and C are mining through pools on different test platforms. It describes comparison rigs and remote control software, not a consumer firmware launch or a proven profit increase.
SRBMiner 3.8.1 adds a power tuner: lower consumption can cost some hashrate
The October 28 release fine-tunes an existing NVIDIA overclock on Linux. It needs root and a locked core clock; the default tolerated hashrate loss is 2.5%, not a promised electricity saving.
Knots 29.4.3 extends reward locks on its BLAKE2b chain: check which network pays you
The October 28 release sets 25,920-block maturity from height 979,919 while its temporary regime applies. These are rules of the BLAKE2b branch, not a change to Bitcoin Core’s 100-block SHA256d rule.
Serbian day-ahead electricity reaches €330/MWh: a tougher day for spot-priced mining
SEEPEX lists €330.04/MWh for October 29, 12.8% above October 28. A constant 1 kW load would use about €7.92 of wholesale energy that day, before network charges, taxes and supplier costs.
