Bitcoin Mining Hits a Crossroads as Difficulty Hovers Near the Floor
Key TakeawaysBitcoin logged ten difficulty drops versus seven increases in 2026, leaving difficulty at 125.81 trillion.Bitcoin difficulty sits just 0.7%...
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Bitcoin crash forced Riot to pledge 1,825 BTC, but this huge rally may now free up 1,500 BTC
Riot Platforms entered 2026 with 3,977 BTC pledged against a $200 million Coinbase loan. Bitcoin then fell far enough that...
Treasury ‘Not-QE’ Fuels Bitcoin Rally
Bitcoin and the broader digital asset market got a taste of “not-QE” this week — and liked it.The price of...
Riot Platforms Sold 9,665 Bitcoin in H1 2026 to Fund AI Pivot
Key TakeawaysRiot Platforms sold 4,300 BTC in Q2 2026, cutting its treasury to 11,380 BTC by H1 end.Riot’s 191 megawatt...
Bitcoin miner Ionic gets 90% of revenue from AI lease as BTC drives $35M loss
Ionic Digital, a Bitcoin miner repositioning its power sites for AI infrastructure, generated 90% of its second-quarter revenue from leasing....
Cypherpunk Expands Zcash Bet With $33M Mining Deal
Cypherpunk Technologies is expanding its footprint in the Zcash ecosystem, launching what it says is the world’s largest Zcash mining...
Public Miners Shed 21% of Bitcoin Hashrate as AI Revenue Accelerates
This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by Blocks Bridge Consulting, curating the latest news in energy,...
Bitcoin made KULR’s real battery business harder to value
KULR Technology Group has exited Bitcoin mining, repaid its Coinbase debt, and begun selling its BTC holdings as the battery...
Anthropic Strikes $9B Compute Deal with Bitcoin Miner Riot: Report
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Solo Bitcoin Miner Defies the Odds, Lands $200K Block Reward Jackpot
Key TakeawaysA solo miner using CKPool claimed block 960804’s 3.1569 BTC reward on Aug. 2, 2026.The win marked CKPool’s 317th...
Bitcoin miner HIVE’s $79M quarter runs into an $80M Swedish tax problem
Bitcoin miner HIVE Digital Technologies missed the Aug. 10 deadline for its quarter-ended-June 30 Form 10-Q even as preliminary revenue...
Keel Shuts All Bitcoin Mining With $819M Ready for AI Pivot
Key TakeawaysKeel shut all U.S. bitcoin mining as Q2 revenue fell 50% to $30.4M during its AI pivot.Keel sold 1,085...
Even if Bitcoin rises 30% a year this renewable mining model still loses money as hashrate keeps pace
Bitcoin trades near $63,600, below the lowest Bitcoin price researchers tested against a modeled wind-powered mining operation in a new...
Keel shuts US Bitcoin mining operations as Q2 revenue falls 50%
Keel completed the shutdown of its US Bitcoin mining operations as it pivots toward AI and high-performance computing infrastructure Source...
OCEAN Pledges BTC Refunds After Chain-Split Error
Key TakeawaysOCEAN misrouted miners to the BIP-110 chain for 18 hours due to a Stratum configuration flaw.Developer Peter Todd slammed...
BIP-110 Bitcoin fork stalls 57 blocks behind dominant chain
BIP-110, a proposed temporary soft fork restricting some uses of arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions, entered its mandatory-signaling window with...
MARA Reports $611M Loss While Miners Deposit 581 BTC to NYDIG
Key TakeawaysMARA’s Q2 revenue fell 27% to $174.9 million, missing Wall Street estimates by more than 16%.Riot Platforms and MARA...
CleanSpark revenue falls 30.5% as profit turns to loss
CleanSpark reported a 30.5% year-over-year revenue decline and a $497.2 million swing from profit to loss in its fiscal third-quarter...
Bitcoin-backed loan refinances PowerCompute’s $18M debt at 2%
Nasdaq-listed PowerCompute refinanced $18 million of debt through a Bitcoin-backed facility carrying an initial interest rate of about 2%. Source...
MARA Opens Slipstream to the Public as Coldcard Victims Race to Escape
Key TakeawaysMARA Foundation opened Slipstream to the public on August 3, 2026, dropping its client code requirement.A Coldcard firmware flaw...
Eric Trump’s American Bitcoin has pledged nearly 40% of its Bitcoin to buy mining equipment
American Bitcoin ended June with 8,002 BTC. Nearly two-fifths of that total, or 3,090 BTC, had been pledged to Bitmain...
Celsius-linked Bitcoin miner Ionic Digital gains 26% in Nasdaq debut
The Bitcoin miner and AI infrastructure company closed at $62.90, giving it a market capitalization of about $2.8 billion after...
