Mining

A solo miner succeeded in producing the header for Bitcoin block 881423, taking the whole 3.125 BTC rewards. The miner is part of a new drive to use simple equipment to bring back retail BTC block…

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms (RIOT) finds itself a target of a second activist investor, with Reuters reporting investment management giant D.E. Shaw as having taken an unspecified stake. The move by…

The news got buried in part due to Trump’s inauguration and subsequent rumblings of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR), but developer b10c recently published research showing that F2Pool — a mining…

Digital Currency Group (DCG) is spinning off the self-mining unit of its Foundry subsidiary into a separate business called Fortitude Mining that will mine crypto across a range of digital assets, the…

Leading asset manager VanEck plans to boost its investments into Bitcoin miners amid President Donald Trump’s pro-crypto push. Throughout the run-up to the 2024 presidential elections and the days…

Bitcoin (BTC) managed a minor bounce of its worst levels of the day, but the bitcoin mining stocks were unable to reverse any of their plunge as Chinese AI startup DeepSeek threw into question ideas…

Bitcoin mining difficulty has recorded its first decline in four months, marking the end of a streak that saw it rise eight consecutive times. According to data from Cloverpool, the mining difficulty…

The U.S. has added Sophgo Technologies, the AI chip firm owned by Bitmain co-founder Zhan Ketuan, to its trade blacklist. The U.S. has blacklisted Sophgo Technologies, the AI chip company founded by…

Petrobras is interested in bitcoin mining as a complementary activity. Marcelo Curi, a blockchain and crypto architect at Petrobras, has stated that the company is researching this and other Web3…

The total reported hash rate of public miners reached 318.09 EH/s at the end of 2024, accounting for over 35% of Bitcoin’s total hash rate – a significant jump from 21% in 2023. IREN, CLSK, RIOT, and…