Another Difficulty Cut Hits Bitcoin — Miners Grab a Rare Moment of Relief
At block height 923328, the Bitcoin blockchain logged its 23rd difficulty adjustment of the year, marking the seventh downward shift...
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70% of top Bitcoin miners are already using AI income to survive bear market
Seven of the top ten miners by hashrate report AI or high-performance computing initiatives already generating revenue, with the other...
Bitfarms to Wind Down Bitcoin Mining Operations, Announces AI Pivot
Bitfarms’ CEO Ben Gagnon announced that the company was focused on abandoning the bitcoin mining business and converting its sites...
Cleanspark borrows $1.15b at 0% to survive the brutal Bitcoin mining shakeout
CleanSpark just sold $1.15 billion of zero-coupon convertible notes to buy more power and machines in the most brutal mining...
Ohio Mining Facility Fire Extends Stock Sell-Off
Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer confirmed that a fire broke out at its facility in Massillon, Ohio, on Tuesday, with no...
Cleanspark Rolls out $1 Billion Convertible Note Plan for Expansion
Cleanspark announced plans to offer $1 billion in convertible senior notes due 2032, with an additional $200 million option for...
Does Bitcoin use MEV to order your transactions like DeFi?
In crypto, MEV typically refers to bots and searchers on chains like Ethereum reordering, inserting, or censoring transactions around DEX...
Hashprice Near Critical Level, Bitcoin Miners Feel the Squeeze: Report
Bitcoin’s mining sector is under mounting pressure as the hash price, the industry’s key profitability metric, slips toward levels that...
Bitcoin Mining Stocks Slip While Hashprice Hits 7-Month Low
Bitcoin mining stocks limped into the weekend after bitcoin’s 7.8% weekly dip to $101,827 sent hashprice to its lowest point...
Bitcoin is getting too expensive to mine profitably: What breaks first?
With the spotlight this cycle fixed on corporate Bitcoin treasuries, ETF inflows, and shifting global liquidity, Bitcoin’s miners have become...
Bitcoin’s $7K Drop Sends Miner Revenues to April Lows
On Tuesday, bitcoin’s spot price slipped more than 5% against the U.S. dollar, wiping out more than $7,000 in value...
Microsoft signs $9.7B deal with BTC miner IREN
Microsoft’s $9.7 billion contract with a Texas miner reveals the new math pushing crypto infrastructure toward AI, and what it...
Struggling Mining Industry sees $11B Boom in Convertible Debt Offerings
Bitcoin (BTC) miners have raised $11 billion in convertible debt — corporate debt that is convertible to stocks — over...
Zcash Hashrate Hits Record High as Miners Cash In on Rally
New figures reveal that mining the privacy coin zcash (ZEC) has become a serious money-maker after the digital asset’s price...
Are Bitcoin miners becoming AI utilities? The math says yes
Bitcoin’s (BTC) April 2024 halving cut block rewards from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC, compressing the hash price and forcing Bitcoin...
Canaan’s BTC Miners Load Balance Electric Grid in Japan
Mining hardware producer Canaan won a contract to supply 4.5 megawatts (MW) of Bitcoin mining application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for...
Canaan Launches Avalon A16 Miner Delivering 300 TH/s and 12.8 Joules per Terahash
Canaan Inc. has pulled the curtain back on its next-generation Avalon A16 series bitcoin miner, revealing the A16XP model at...
Could Bitcoin new BIP 444 proposal trigger a chain split?
Bitcoin, the world’s largest and oldest blockchain, is confronting an existential question of how much data should live on its...
American Bitcoin Boosts Holdings To 3,865 BTC Amid Expansion
American Bitcoin, the mining and treasury company co-founded by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., added more than 1,400 Bitcoin...
Hive Digital’s Bitcoin Hashrate Hits 22 EH/s, Expands AI Cloud Data Center in Sweden
Hive Digital Technologies Ltd. has achieved a new milestone, surpassing 22 exahash per second (EH/s) in bitcoin-mining capacity while fast-tracking...
How $800 hardware can sniff Bitcoin miner traffic via satellite
UC San Diego and the University of Maryland researchers have reported findings showing that roughly half of GEO satellite downlinks...
Bitcoin Miners Face New Hash Wars After 2024 Halving
The Bitcoin mining industry is becoming increasingly competitive, with so-called tier-2 operators closing the gap on established leaders in realized...
