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Yet another solo Bitcoin miner solved a valid block, earning a reward worth over $220,000
Mining bitcoin without any help from a larger pool has become an increasingly-improbable feat over the last decade.
Kazakhstan Powers Down Bitcoin Miners as Blackouts Roil Central Asia
The Kazakhstan government has shut off the supply of electricity to Bitcoin miners through the end of January.
Another Headache for Bitcoin Miners in Central Asia as Three Countries Hit With Blackouts
Three of the Central Asian countries — Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan — have been hit by a power blackout after Kazakhstan...
US Still Dominates Bitcoin Mining Sector, 30-Day Stats Show Foundry USA Takes Top Pool Position
Since the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI) project updated its mining map in mid-July, the United States ha...
Fitch Ratings warns of risks crypto miners pose to US power supply
“Crypto mining operations are price-sensitive entities that may be quickly scaled back or shut down if mining becomes uneconomical...
Vortex Brands Purchases Additional 8 S19j Pros Crypto Mining Machines
Vortex Brands Co, a Bitcoin mining firm in the US, announced the purchase of 19j Pro machines for its Bitcoin mining operations. T...
Bitcoin Saw Inflows Again, Miner Bets Against Ethereum's PoS, Meta on Getting Metaverse 'Right' + More News
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of...
Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark Reaches 2 EH/s Hashrate Capacity
The publicly-listed company said it doubled its bitcoin mining hashrate capacity in just a few months.Nasdaq-listed miner CleanSpa...
Solo Bitcoin Miner With Only 86 TH Finds Valid Block
A third individual worker successfully mined a new block on Bitcoin in under two weeks, taking home over $215K.For the third time...
Ban Crypto, but Legalize Mining and Issue Gold-backed Stablecoin, Urges Top Russian MP
Russian parliamentarians, government officials and finance chiefs remain deeply divided on the issue of crypto regulation – with a...
Bitmain Reveals Hydro Bitcoin Miner With 198 Terahash, Produces Almost Double the Power of Today’s Top Machines
One of the largest bitcoin mining rig manufacturers in the world, Bitmain announced the launch of a new bitcoin miner that boasts...
Bitcoin’s Price Drop and the Network’s Higher Difficulty Squeezes BTC Mining Profits
After Bitcoin’s mining difficulty jumped to the highest value ever at 26.64 trillion, the overall hashrate slumped a hair due to t...
Decommissioned Power Plant in Armenia to Host Crypto Mining Farms
Armenia is going to invite cryptocurrency miners to install their coin minting hardware in an old thermal power plant. The TPP wil...
Russia May Allow Crypto Mining and Gold-Backed Stablecoins, Lawmaker Says
Russia can legalize cryptocurrency mining and stablecoins backed by gold under government control, a high-ranking member of the Ru...
While BTC’s Price Slid Lower, a Miner Spent an 11-Year-Old Block Reward from 2010 Worth $1.8M
Following the large string of block rewards from 2010 spent in November 2021, no block rewards from that year were discovered in D...
BTC Mining Difficulty Hits All-Time High
In addition to a sharp plunge in its price, BTC saw a spike in its mining difficulty level. The number increased by almost 9% with...
Shedding Whales, Trending Panteras, Mining Moles and 20 Crypto Jokes
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Epic Japanese Legal Struggle over Monero Mining Widget Finally Comes to a Close
A Japanese music site developer -- who has been fighting the police in the country’s courts after he was fined for adding a widget...