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El Salvador president teases geothermal Bitcoin mining farm
29.9.2021
El Salvador’s president showed the supposed first steps of a geothermal Bitcoin mining facility
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Mining ‘Volcanode’ Takes its ‘First Steps’
29.9.2021
te that the project had taken its “first steps” toward becoming a “volcanode.”One witty punster
23,250 ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ Spent in 2021: This Year Old School Miners Moved $1 Billion in BTC From 2010-2013
28.9.2021
On Bitcoin’s 12th anniversary, a mystery miner from the early days spent 1,000 decade-old bitcoins that were mined in 2010. The strange miner was not the only entity that spent 2010 BTC block rewards during the last nine months, but this miner returned on a few occasions to spend strings...
Here's why Bitcoin mining stocks have been outperforming BTC price in 2021
28.9.2021
One of the crypto mining stocks delivered more than 1,600% returns year-over-year (YoY) while Bitcoin's gains in the same period came out to be around 290%
Northern Data AG Acquires Bitcoin Miner Bitfield — 33,000 Miners Gained in Stock-for-Stock Deal
28.9.2021
On Monday, the high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure provider and bitcoin mining firm Northern Data AG announced the acquisition of the bitcoin mining operation Bitfield N.V. in a stock-for-stock deal. Northern Data says the company will obtain 33,000 of the latest generation ASIC bitcoin...
Huobi outlines plan for Chinese investors after halting crypto trading
27.9.2021
Huobi Group co-founder Du Jun intends to safeguard all crypto assets on Chinese accounts before permanently closing them down by Dec. 31, 2021
Dominated by Institutions, Bitcoin Mining is also Possible from Home
26.9.2021
://cryptonews.com/coins/bitcoin/">bitcoin (BTC) hit its all-time high of around USD 65,000, BTC miners generated almost USD 3bn in revenue, resulting from sales of the coins they had obtained via either block rewards or transaction fees.Such figures would lead most people to assume that B
Genesis Digital Assets Reveals $431 Million Capital Raise — Mining Firm Aims for 1.4 Gigawatts by 2023
23.9.2021
On Tuesday, the bitcoin mining firm Genesis Digital Assets announced the firm raised $431 million from strategic investors. The mining company Genesis detailed that Paradigm led the multi-million-dollar funding round and one of the firm’s co-founders has joined Genesis’s board...
Ohio to host BIT Mining's new 85 MW Bitcoin mining facility
22.9.2021
BIT Mining Limited has entered into a joint venture agreement with Viking Data Centers to develop a Bitcoin mining site in Ohio
Bitcoin mining difficulty surges 31% since July
22.9.2021
Mining new Bitcoin keeps getting harder, but the current difficulty is still far from its record highs
Bitcoin mining estimated to represent 0.9% of global carbon emissions in 2030
22.9.2021
New York Digital Investment Group estimates that Bitcoin mining will not represent more than 0.4% of global carbon emissions over the next decade
US Treasury Sanctions Crypto Exchange, Bitcoin Mining at Home + More News
21.9.2021
ilitating transactions involving illicit proceeds for at least eight ransomware variants - marking its first such move against a virtual currency exchange over ransomware activity. Some virtual curre
Bitcoin Hashrate Climbs 128% Over 83 Days, Network’s Mystery Miners Disappear
19.9.2021
Bitcoin’s hashrate has been climbing higher during the last two weeks, hitting 174 exahash per second (EH/s) on two occasions since June 28. Currently, Bitcoin’s network hashrate is coasting along at 158 EH/s, up 128% since the low 83 days ago when it hit 69 EH/s. Meanwhile, unknown...
How Bitcoin Mining Might Help Nations With Domestic Energy Production
19.9.2021
r energy. However, even if the cryptocurrency consumes nearly as much electricity each year as the Netherlands, there are a number of people within the Bitcoin industry who are arguing that it could end up being a net positiv
100 years ago, Henry Ford proposed ‘energy currency’ to replace gold
18.9.2021
Bitcoin appears to meet the definition of an energy-backed currency proposed by the famed American inventor during the interbellum period
Bitcoin miner maker Canaan records highest quarterly profit since 2019 IPO
15.9.2021
Chinese Bitcoin miner manufacturer Canaan Inc. has reported significant revenue figures for the second quarter of 2021
Bitcoin's power consumption this year has already surpassed all of 2020's
15.9.2021
Bitcoin has already consumed more power in 2021 than it did in all of 2020 according to a recent study
New York IT Supervisor Faces up to 15 Years in Jail for Mining Bitcoin in the Office
11.9.2021
A New York IT supervisor is facing a possible sentence of up to 15 years in jail for mining bitcoin in the office. The man, identified as Christopher Naples, allegedly had hidden 46 mining rigs in the offices of the Suffolk County Center in Riverhead, New York. According to the investigation, 10...
Argo Blockchain secures $25M Bitcoin-backed loan from Galaxy Digital
10.9.2021
The Bitcoin mining giant has entered into another BTC-backed loan agreement with Galaxy Digital as it pursues further operational expansions
Russian Duma wants to regulate crypto mining as business
9.9.2021
Russia is moving to regulate cryptocurrency mining after legitimizing the broader crypto industry in January