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Bitcoin Miner Bitdeer to Buy ASIC Chip Designer Desiweminer for $140M in All-Stock Deal
6.6.2024
Bitdeer received an investment worth $150 million from stablecoin company Tether at the end of last month
Riot Platforms bounces after damning report claiming collapse
6.6.2024
Riot shares recovered from more than a 9% dip in the first hour of trading following a damning report from short seller Kerrisdale Capital
Largest Bitcoin mining firm sold 63% of mined BTC in May
5.6.2024
Marathon Digital sold a large chunk of its Bitcoin production in May as miners adjust operations after the halving event
Riot Platforms Falls After the Bitcoin Miner Is Targeted by Short-Seller Kerrisdale
5.6.2024
The short-seller has targeted MicroStrategy previously
Bitcoin halving impacts miner Riot’s revenue by 43% despite new facility
5.6.2024
To keep up with the declining Bitcoin rewards, Riot Platforms opened a new mining facility near Corsicana, Texas
3 Bitcoin Mining Pools Wield 69% of Total Hashrate Discovering 301 Blocks in 72 Hours
4.6.2024
Figures reveal that over the preceding 72 hours, three bitcoin mining pools discovered more than 69% of the 436 blocks found during that period. Foundry USA and Antpool, two industry titans, command a formidable 55.5% of Bitcoin’s total computational power. Foundry Dominates Bitcoin Mining...
Bitcoin miner Core Scientific strikes $3.5B AI partnership
4.6.2024
Core Scientific expects that its AI collaboration with CoreWeave will generate $3.5 billion over 12 years from renting out 18% from its infrastructure
Bitfarms Sees 42% Revenue Drop in May Post-Bitcoin Halving
4.6.2024
Bitfarms, a Bitcoin mining firm, reported a 42% drop in crypto mining revenue in May, the first full month following the Bitcoin halving in mid-April, which reduced their Bitcoin production from 263 BTC in April to 156 BTC in May. The company attributed part of the decline in production...
Halving full effect: Bitfarms crypto mining revenue falls 42% in May
4.6.2024
The Bitcoin mining firm also blamed “unusually cold temperatures” at its Rio Cuarto facility in Argentina for the fall in Bitcoin production
Biden vetoes House and Senate votes on SEC’s anti-crypto resolution: Law Decoded
3.6.2024
United States President Joe Biden has vetoed a resolution that would have overruled the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121
Illicit Bitcoin mining farm sealed in Paraguay; El Salvador debate on BTC
3.6.2024
The authorities took action against a Bitcoin mining farm that hosted 2,738 Bitcoin miners and five electric transformers, which were confiscated by the authorities. Supervisory and control systems and AI-backed software helped detect these illegal Bitcoin mining farms. According to the report...
Bitcoin Mining Power Wanes — Network Hashrate Drops Below 600 EH/s
3.6.2024
Bitcoin’s hashrate has once again dipped below the 600 exahash per second (EH/s) threshold, following a brief increase in computational power on May 26. Since then, the seven-day simple moving average (SMA) shows that the network has decreased by at least 74 EH/s over the past week. Bitcoin...
Latam Insights: Paraguay Shuts Down Largest Illegal Bitcoin Mining Farm to Date, Argentina and El Salvador Discuss Bitcoin
3.6.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: Paraguay shut down the largest illegal bitcoin mining operation to date, Argentine and Salvadoran officials met to discuss bitcoin issues, and Ocean launched...
Bitcoin post-halving run may reach $130K by September 2025
3.6.2024
Trader Peter Brandt says Bitcoin’s bull run is following similar past post-halving cycles, and if it holds it could reach $130,000 by late next year
Bitmain Launches Antminer L9 With Enhanced 16 GH/s Capacity for Scrypt-Based Coins
2.6.2024
Bitmain has announced the release of the Antminer L9, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miner tailored for coins that use the Scrypt algorithm, such as litecoin and dogecoin. The company reports that this new model provides 16 gigahash per second (GH/s) in hashing power and achieves...
Bitcoin Miners See 46.15% Revenue Drop in May, Lowest Since October 2023
1.6.2024
After two consecutive months of record-breaking revenue, bitcoin miners experienced a significant downturn in earnings in May, a level not seen since October 2023. In April, miners generated $1.79 billion, whereas May’s figures show a considerably lower revenue of approximately $964.24...
Crypto Biz: Solana’s rise, BlackRock’s growing BTC exposure, and more
31.5.2024
This week’s Crypto Biz explores Solana’s comeback, BlackRock funds’ growing exposure to Bitcoin, Riot Platforms’ bid for Bitfarms, Semler Scientific using BTC as a treasury reserve, and more
Paraguay seizes 2,738 ASICs as power theft crackdown continues
31.5.2024
Power-intensive crypto mining is controversial in Paraguay, where an attempt at crypto regulation was vetoed because of it
Bitdeer Announces $100 Million Investment From Tether
31.5.2024
On Friday, the publicly listed mining company Bitdeer Technologies Group revealed that the leading stablecoin firm Tether has purchased $100 million in Bitdeer shares. Additionally, Tether holds an option to acquire an additional $50 million in shares in the future. Bitdeer and Tether Forge...
Tether invests $150M in Jihan Wu’s crypto mining firm Bitdeer
31.5.2024
Following the investment, Tether expects close collaboration with Bitdeer across several key infrastructure areas, CEO Paolo Ardoino said