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...
Mining
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...
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...
Brazilian Solar Energy Firm Thopen Considers Bitcoin Mining
Brazilian solar power producer Thopen is exploring a move into Bitcoin mining to absorb surplus energy generated by the country’s...
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...
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...
Q4 Hashrate Heatmap Reveals US and China’s Exahash Expansion Powering Bitcoin’s Zettahash Push
Since the start of 2025, Bitcoin’s hashrate has kicked into high gear—rising from 801 exahash per second (EH/s) on Jan....
Solo Bitcoin Miner Snares $347K Block in Self-Sovereign Fashion
A solo Bitcoin miner has become the latest lucky person to win the “Bitcoin mining lottery,” pocketing a $347,455 block...
Bitcoin Miner Argo to Delist from London Stock Exchange Amid Debt Restructuring
Argo Blockchain, one of the earliest publicly listed bitcoin mining companies, said Tuesday it plans to delist its shares from...
Bitcoin miners sell BTC reserves and eye AI to boost revenues
Bitcoin miners are running out of room to breathe.In the wake of a $19 billion market rout, operators have begun...
British Columbia Ban New Crypto Mining Connections
The government of British Columbia is banning new crypto mining connections to the hydro power grid, citing unprecedented electricity demand.In...
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Hits the Stratosphere: Miners Flex 1.164 Zettahash of Pure Power
Bitcoin’s hashrate just cranked things up another notch, blasting to 1,164 exahash per second (EH/s) on Sunday at 2:40 p.m....
New debt-fueled era for Bitcoin miners marked by 1 zetahash milestone
Bitcoin mining crossed the zetahash threshold in September as the network averaged 1.034 ZH/s, and hashprice fell below $47 per...
Public companies hold $110B BTC, but which are profiting from the Bitcoin standard?
Public companies now hold over 1 million Bitcoin worth $110 billion on their balance sheets, but only early adopters with...
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Nears Peak as Mining Difficulty Finally Eases
Bitcoin miners finally caught a breather at block height 919,296 as mining difficulty eased up for the first time since...
Are miners buying Bitcoin again? Marathon adds 400 BTC after the crash
Bitcoin (BTC) miner MARA Holdings purchased 400 BTC for approximately $46 million on Oct. 13, capitalizing on the market collapse...
Terawulf Plans Record $3.2B Notes Offering to Fund AI Data Center Expansion
Terawulf Inc. (Nasdaq: WULF) has announced plans to raise $3.2 billion through senior secured notes — the largest single debt...
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...
Rewards, Hardware, Pools and Energy
What is Bitcoin mining? Bitcoin mining is the process that keeps the BTC network secure and operational.Bitcoin (BTC) miners collect...
Five Months of Pain: Bitcoin Miners Watch Earnings Crater 27%
Crypto investors might be nursing some serious portfolio bruises this week, but bitcoin miners have their own headache — earnings...
Senate Passes GAIN Act as Part of 2026 National Defense Authorization Bill
The US Senate has advanced sweeping AI legislation under the National Defense Authorization Act, compelling chipmakers to serve US customers...
