Bitcoin’s hashrate fell to a seven-month low during the storm. Well-capitalised miners with curtailment deals made huge margins by selling power back to the grid. Stock prices for some miners have had ...

There’s something about Bitcoin and blockchain that just seems to attract weird and wacky tinkerers. While computationally powerful ASIC miners dominate proof-of-work crypto mining today, that hasn’t ...

Bitcoin is due for another difficulty adjustment this week. It’s expected that the next mining difficulty adjustment will drop. That means a weaker network — should investors be worried? For the fifth ...

Hashrate on Bitcoin network is clearly experiencing a problematic period: it cannot go down, but it also cannot stay so high. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by our writers are their own and do not ...

Bitcoin average mining cost is at $101,000, according to MacroMicro data, while BTC price hovers around $93,000, creating an $8,000 difference in potential losses. The network hashrate has been ...

Bitcoin mining companies are making a noticeable shift in how they use their massive computing power, with some redirecting energy-hungry operations away from cryptocurrency and toward artificial ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For someone who cares about climate change, Matt Carlsson had what seemed like a ...

Bitcoin’s most recent halving took place in 2024, cutting the reward miners receive for each new block (David Pereiras/The Noun Project) While today’s data center conversation revolves around AI, ...

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The idea of repurposing the heat generated by Bitcoin mining to heat homes and greenhouses has been floating around for a few years. As with engineers out there, somebody is out to give these ideas a ...

The Bitcoin network’s mining difficulty eased to 146.4 trillion on January 8, with the next adjustment expected to rise to 148.2 trillion. Miners are facing lower profits due to the 2024 halving and ...

One of the side effects of the energy-intensive process of bitcoin mining is the excess heat that is created by the involved hardware devices. Miners have to prove that they’ve expended energy on ...