Mining

Ethiopia is emerging as a fast-growing Bitcoin mining hub, with local miners already consuming 600MW of power and more capacity expected to come online this year. Ethiopia’s Bitcoin (BTC) mining…

MARA, one of the largest bitcoin miners in the public market, has kicked off an exciting new pilot program aimed at powering its operations with excess natural gas from U.S. shale, as noted in a…

Public Bitcoin miners saw their daily revenues fall for a third month in a row in September, and the decline coincided with a rise in the network’s difficulty, creating a challenging environment for…

When I first came onto the Bitcoin scene in 2017, I had changed my Twitter (now X) handle to “@nikcantmine.” (It was a joke I thought was funny at the time since I didn’t have the resources to mine…

Investors continue to pay a premium for miners diversifying into AI and HPC data centers, despite pure-play miners gaining market share. Marathon, Riot and CleanSpark all saw higher production numbers…

What has turned out to be critical in ASIC miner construction is the liquid cooling technology. AI integration is only now becoming used to make mining operations more efficient in real time.…

Bitcoin’s hashrate has been climbing steadily, closing in on its peak of 693 exahash per second (EH/s) recorded on Sept. 8. At present, it’s cruising just shy of that record, clocking in at 680 EH/s.…

CleanSpark swiftly restored power and operations, achieving a hashrate of 28.7 EH/s after Hurricane Helene’s impact. Despite the storm’s challenges, CleanSpark’s diversified facilities helped…

Rockdale, a small town in Texas, went through an economic disaster in 2008. The Alcoa aluminum plant, once the largest employer in town, shut down due to rising energy costs and new regulations. The…

In July, the proof-of-work (PoW) crypto mining algorithm Kheavyhash, used by the kaspa (KAS) crypto asset, held the top spot for profitability among consensus algorithms. Fast forward to today, and…