Mining

Key Takeaways Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, has launched the country's first corporate loan backed by crypto mined by…

Sberbank, Russia’s second-largest bank, issued the country's first bitcoin-backed loan to one of its largest bitcoin miners, calling the transaction a pilot and suggesting it was keen to issue more in…

Mining difficulty for Bitcoin has risen to 148.2 trillion in the latest 2025 difficulty reset, the highest level since miners’ and adversarial network forces collided in earnest. That is a significant…

Bitcoin’s mining sector spent 2025 rewriting the record books, powering the network from an already massive 801 exahashes per second at the start of the year into the historic zettahash era by…

The evolution of bitcoin mining machines in 2025 came down to an unyielding chase for leaner energy use paired with massive gains in computational muscle, all centered on the application-specific…

As 2025 draws to a close, bitcoin BTC$87,555.35 faced a tough year, down about 7% year-to-date, while gold, the S&P 500 and technology stocks continue to hit all-time highs. As a result, public…

According to the Russian local news agency Kommersant, Russia claims that the US is targeting cryptocurrency mining at a disputed nuclear power plant in the Russia-Ukraine conflict zone. Russian…

Russia is reportedly discussing new options for managing the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. This includes the potential use of its electricity for Bitcoin mining. The idea surfaced during recent…

The Bitcoin mining industry has faced a harsher operating environment since the 2024 halving, a core feature of Bitcoin’s monetary design that cuts block rewards roughly every four years to enforce…

Cipher Mining has acquired a 200-megawatt power site in Ohio called “Ulysses,” marking its first expansion outside of Texas and entry into the PJM wholesale electricity market, the largest power…