Bitcoin’s hashrate fell by about 10% in a single day on Sunday, with Jianping Kong, former co-chairman of Bitcoin mining hardware producer Canaan, attributing it to mining farms shutting down in China’s Xinjiang autonomous region. […]
Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $7 billion lease to deliver 245 megawatts of artificial intelligence data center capacity at its River Bend campus in Louisiana, marking one of the biggest infrastructure agreements […]
Key takeaways Libya’s cheap, subsidized electricity made it profitable to run even older, inefficient Bitcoin miners. At its peak, Libya is estimated to have generated around 0.6% of the global Bitcoin hash rate. Mining operates […]
The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the relative computing challenge of adding a new block to the decentralized blockchain ledger, fell slightly to 146.4 trillion on Thursday, in the first difficulty adjustment of 2026. “The […]
Bitcoin’s hashrate fell 4% over the month to Dec. 15, which could be a positive sign for the cryptocurrency’s price in the months ahead as miner capitulation is “historically a bullish contrarian signal,” VanEck analysts […]
Bitmain, the largest manufacturer of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), the machines used to mine proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies, has reportedly slashed prices on several generations of mining hardware amid sector-wide turmoil for the mining industry. The […]
The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the relative computing challenge of adding a new block to the ledger, increased slightly to 148.2 trillion in the last adjustment of 2025 and is projected to rise again […]
Hardware manufacturer and Bitcoin miner Canaan has continued its initiative of reusing energy for commercial and consumer applications by making compute heat available for greenhouses in Canada. In a Tuesday notice, Canaan said it would […]
Russia has proposed a new draft bill seeking to crack down on unregistered cryptocurrency miners in the country, following concerns from the finance minister about illegal mining activity. Russia’s Ministry of Justice has proposed imposing […]
Bitfarms will exit Latin America after selling a $30M Paraguay facility, shifting operations to North America as it pivots toward AI and HPC. Bitcoin mining company Bitfarms announced a complete exit from the Latin American […]
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