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- 9h ago
MARA Ships $83 Million in Bitcoin to Exchanges as Its Stock Sinks 45%
Wallets tied to MARA Holdings, one of the largest public bitcoin miners, have moved 1,000 BTC worth about $82.8 million to crypto exchanges in five days, while MARA’s shares have nearly halved in a month. Following the Coins Onchain trackers flagged the transfers early Monday, writing that MARA “appears to be selling” after wallets linked […]
- 3d ago
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Jumps 5.92% in Third-Largest Hike of 2026
On Friday, at block height 971712, bitcoin mining grew considerably more demanding as the network’s latest difficulty adjustment climbed 5.92% to 140.58 trillion, marking its highest reading since March 5. Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits Seven-Month High After 5.92% Increase The network’s difficulty, basically how hard miners must work to find the next Bitcoin block, increased […]
- 3d ago
Block’s Proto Bitcoin Mining Hardware Now Available to Own via Sazmining
Bitcoin mining services provider Sazmining has launched a new offering that allows individual investors to purchase mining hardware developed by Block’s Proto division. Sazmining Serves Up Block’s Bitcoin Hashboards The Wyoming-based company announced Friday that customers can purchase Proto immersion hashboards outright while Sazmining handles installation, operation, and maintenance at a U.S.…
- 4d ago
Blue Owl’s Stack Seeks $6 Billion Melbourne Loan as AI Debt Faces Scrutiny
Stack Infrastructure is reportedly seeking an A$8.6 billion ($6 billion) loan to finance a data center project in Melbourne, as investors grow more cautious about the borrowing underpinning the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom. This article first appeared in The Energy Mag. The original article can be viewed here. The Energy Mag (formerly The Miner Mag) […]
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- 6d ago
Binance Pulls the Plug on Bitcoin Mining After 6-Year Run
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, disclosed this week that the company’s mining operations will be sunsetting. The crypto firm said that Binance Pool and related services will officially be discontinued on Nov. 10, 2026. Binance Pool to Shut Down After Six Years and 22,188 Mined Bitcoin Blocks According to mempool.space statistics, […]
- 7d ago
SWI Turns FTX’s Former Bitcoin Mining Infrastructure Toward AI Boom
Genesis Digital Assets, once one of Sam Bankman-Fried’s largest crypto investments, is being repurposed for the artificial-intelligence boom after SWI Group took majority control. SWI has now raised about $896 million to expand the former bitcoin miner’s data-center footprint for hyperscale computing customers. Genesis Digital Pivots From Bitcoin Mining to AI Data Centers A bitcoin […]
- 11d ago
From Bitcoin Mining to Global Banking, Bhutan Eyes Abu Dhabi
On Thursday, DK Bank, Bhutan’s fully digital bank, announced it had secured preliminary regulatory approval to establish a financial services presence in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The development marks another step in the bank’s international ambitions, positioning Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) to forge stronger ties with global financial institutions and investors. Bhutan’s…
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- 13d ago
Fortitude Bets Up to $100 Million on Bitmain Zcash Mining Hardware
Fortitude Mining has signed a non-binding agreement for up to $100 million of Bitmain’s next-generation zcash mining hardware, securing priority access ahead of an expected 2027 rollout. Fortitude Secures Priority Access to Bitmain’s 2027 Zcash Miners Fortitude Mining is preparing to make a much bigger wager on zcash (ZEC). The Digital Currency Group-backed miner has […]
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- 14d ago
Bitcoin’s Halving Clock Is Ticking With Fewer Than 80,000 Blocks Left
Bitcoin’s notorious halving event is getting closer, and as of Monday, there are now fewer than 80,000 blocks left until that point. When that happens, at block height 1050000, on or around April 12, 2028, block rewards will shrink from 3.125 BTC to 1.5625 BTC. Bitcoin’s Fifth Halving Moves Into View As of today, according […]
- 15d ago
Bitcoin’s Great Unplug: $1.5 Billion in Hardware Behind the AI Pivot
The hashrate public bitcoin miners shed in the first half of 2026 carries an uncomfortable price tag: roughly $1.5 billion in equivalent hardware investment, even at an assumed acquisition price of just $20 per terahash (TH/s). This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by Blocksbridge Consulting curating the latest news in energy, […]
- 16d ago
Bitcoin Miners Bank Strong September as Difficulty Barely Budges
According to data, Bitcoin’s blockchain logged an extremely modest difficulty adjustment at block height 969696, dropping by a mere 0.03%. Hashprice has held above $40 per petahash, while the network’s computational power has remained below 1,000 exahash per second (EH/s). Bitcoin Difficulty Barely Budges With 0.03% Reduction Bitcoin difficulty is an automatic setting that makes […]
- 17d ago
Bitcoin Core Dev Peter Todd to Oversee MARA’s Private Mempool Service
Veteran Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd has joined the MARA Foundation as lead maintainer of Slipstream, the organization’s private Bitcoin mempool service for submitting transactions directly to MARA Pool. Todd Joins MARA Foundation Slipstream allows users to bypass Bitcoin’s public peer-to-peer relay network and send transactions straight to MARA’s mining pool. The service has become […]
- 20d ago
Lithuanian Crypto Entrepreneur Scores Legal Win as Suspicions Dropped
Lithuanian businessman Vilhelm German has secured two favorable developments in the Foxpay investigation. Prosecutors dropped money laundering and bribery suspicions against him after determining that insufficient evidence remained and further investigative avenues had been exhausted. Separately, a Vilnius court upheld procedural objections in his €23 million cryptocurrency mining case,…
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- 21d ago
Kazakhstan Turns to Flare Gas to Power Crypto Mining Revival
Kazakhstan is working to entice crypto miners to take advantage of flared gas opportunities as part of a push to revive mining, which was severely hampered by power limitations imposed by an auction system designed to protect the country’s aging grid. Kazakhstan Works Towards Bringing Crypto Miners and Flare Gas Energy Together The government of […]
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- 21d ago
Discover How 20 Million Russians Tap Into Over $43B in Cryptocurrency
Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov has estimated that 20 million Russians have invested 3.7 trillion rubles (nearly $44 trillion) in crypto. These funds are being leveraged in three different pools: foreign trading, mining, and held as investment or savings assets on external exchanges. How Are Russians Adopting Crypto? Russia has become a cryptocurrency hotbed, ranking […]
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- 22d ago
Thorchain Faces Heat as Bitget Hack Revives Bybit Controversy
Following the Bitget hack, which saw $387.5 million siphoned from the centralized exchange (CEX), CEO Gracy Chen took to social media to formally request that Thorchain deny service to addresses linked to the attacker. Thorchain subsequently pushed back, likening the request to asking bitcoin miners to cease mining in an effort to thwart hackers, something […]
- 22d ago
Riot Repays Coinbase Loan, Ends $200 Million Bitcoin-Backed Facility
Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) has repaid its outstanding borrowing from Coinbase Credit and terminated a $200 million credit facility, releasing the lender’s claims on the bitcoin assets pledged to secure the debt. This article first appeared in The Energy Mag. The original article can be viewed here. The Energy Mag (formerly The Miner Mag) provides […]
- 24d ago
Bitcoin Miner Hive Escalates Swedish VAT Dispute to European Commission
The Swedish Tax Agency, Bikupa Datacenter AB, and Bikupa Datacenter 2 AB, Swedish subsidiaries of bitcoin mining firm Hive Digital Technologies, are engaged in a legal battle that might affect the classification of mining operations in the EU and how VAT applies to these activities. Sweden and Hive Engaged in Battle Over Crypto Mining […]
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- 28d ago
BLAKE2b Bitcoin Fork Wants Miners to Wait 45 Days to Touch Their Coins
The developers who maintain the minority chain that forked away from Bitcoin on Aug. 8, 2026, plan to make it so miners cannot unlock newly mined coins for 45 days. The news comes as BTCB2, also labeled Bitcoin BLAKE2b, Bitcoin BIP-110, or XBT on some trading venues, has dropped 84% below its all-time high. From […]
- 29d ago
NASA’s Apollo Computer Mined Bitcoin in 2019 But Today It Would Take Forever
The computer that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon once ran Bitcoin’s mining math, and a viral clip of the stunt is lighting up crypto timelines again this week. The Clip That Came Back Crypto media outlets circulated the story again earlier today, explaining that computer scientist Ken Shirriff was able to program an Apollo […]
- 1mo ago
Zcash Price Hits $1,270 After a 99.9% Governance Landslide
Zcash holders delivered a nearly unanimous message on Network Upgrade 7 (NU7) to make the network faster, but leave its monetary clock alone. Nearly 2.4 million ZEC participated in the private poll, with 99.9% backing a cut in target block time from 75 seconds to 25, and 98.9% choosing to preserve Zcash’s Bitcoin-style halving schedule. […]
- 1mo ago
Ethiopia’s Bitcoin Mining Boom Just Ran Into a Water Problem
Ethiopia has cut electricity deliveries to bitcoin miners by 75%, leaving them with just 23% of contracted power after El Niño reduced reservoir inflows by roughly 20%. The twist is that miners had become one of Ethiopian Electric Power’s biggest customers, consuming roughly a third of its electricity and supplying about 35% of revenue. Now […]
- 1mo ago
Bitcoin Miner Bitdeer Adds 65.1MW for Nvidia AI as Pipeline Hits $7B
Bitdeer has secured another 65.1 megawatts of AI data-center capacity in Malaysia, taking its committed AI Cloud footprint to about 206.5 MW. The expansion underscores how bitcoin miners are increasingly using their power infrastructure to chase potentially larger and more predictable AI revenues. Bitdeer Adds 65.1 MW in Malaysia as AI Expansion Accelerates Bitdeer is […]
- 1mo ago
What’s New in the Final CLARITY Act Ahead of the Senate Vote
Senate Republicans have outlined what’s new in the final version of the CLARITY Act ahead of a Sept. 15 procedural vote. The changes would strengthen ethics enforcement, create a stablecoin safeguard, and extend developer protections to miners and validators. What’s New for Federal Officials U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), John Boozman (R-AR) and Tim Scott […]
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- 1mo ago
ERCOT Batch Zero: A New Scoreboard in AI Power Arms Race
Bitcoin miners have found a new way to flex. In 2021, they competed on mining machine preorders and exahashes promised. In 2024 and 2025, the contest shifted toward HPC contracts: who could sign a major customer and announce the biggest deal. Now the competition reaches further upstream, to the electricity those computing ambitions require. This […]
- 1mo ago
Bitcoin Miners Found 2 Valid Blocks, Then One Was Left Behind
Galaxy Research documented a Bitcoin blockchain reorganization on Sept. 11, when two of the network’s largest mining pools found competing valid blocks, setting off a brief race that ended with one pool’s block joining the chain with the most accumulated work while the rival block was ultimately discarded. Bitcoin’s One-Block Reorg Pits Spiderpool Against Antpool […]
- 1mo ago
Zcash Mining Highly Profitable: Grayscale Says Rewards Beat Bitcoin 2x
Zcash mining rewards are roughly twice Bitcoin’s per machine and four times higher per unit of electricity, Grayscale estimates. Strong token prices are encouraging more mining activity, with the firm linking that expansion to stronger network security. Grayscale Details Zcash’s Mining Advantage Zcash miners can earn roughly twice the daily rewards per machine compared with […]
- 1mo ago
Deep in Mexico’s Jungle, Police Found 300 Crypto Miners Humming
According to reports, Mexican law enforcement authorities discovered a cryptocurrency mining farm located deep in the remote Sierra Norte mountains of Puebla. Officials believe the GPU farm was financed via organized crime syndicates, and it’s the fourth hidden crypto mining operation discovered in the area since 2025. 300 GPU Miners Found Deep in the Puebla […]
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- 1mo ago
Solo Bitcoin Miner Hits $244K Jackpot After Nearly 40-Day Drought
Earlier this week, at block height 966351, against some seriously long odds, a solo miner hit the jackpot, raking in a solid $244,920 worth of bitcoin. Someone mining through Braiins Solo pool discovered the first solo block in nearly 40 days and walked away with the entire block subsidy and fees associated with the block. […]
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