How $800 hardware can sniff Bitcoin miner traffic via satellite
UC San Diego and the University of Maryland researchers have reported findings showing that roughly half of GEO satellite downlinks...
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Bitcoin Miner Stocks Soared Monday as Nasdaq and Dow Rallied Higher
U.S. equities surged on Monday as investor optimism returned to both traditional and digital asset markets. The Nasdaq climbed 490.18...
Senate Passes GAIN Act as Part of 2026 National Defense Authorization Bill
The US Senate has advanced sweeping AI legislation under the National Defense Authorization Act, compelling chipmakers to serve US customers...
Bitcoin’s Mining Cycle Enters Reset Phase After Record Difficulty Surge
Over the past two weeks, Bitcoin’s hashrate has fallen by nearly 100 exahashes per second (EH/s) — signaling a slowdown...
Rewards, Hardware, Pools and Energy
What is Bitcoin mining? Bitcoin mining is the process that keeps the BTC network secure and operational.Bitcoin (BTC) miners collect...
Bitcoin Miners Feast While Crypto Market Fumbles — IREN, Cipher, and Cleanspark Rise Above
On Tuesday, as the entire crypto market slipped more than 2.5%, publicly traded bitcoin miners (36 of them, but not...
Kazakhstan Cracks Down On Illicit Crypto Activity, Seizes $17M
Kazakhstan, an emerging cryptocurrency hub in Central Asia, has been cracking down on illicit activity in the cryptocurrency sector, shutting...
US Miner Orders 50,000 Avalon A15 Pro Machines From Canaan, Stock Spikes
Canaan Inc. has secured a purchase order from a U.S.-based bitcoin miner for more than 50,000 of its latest Avalon...
Cipher Mining’s $1.3B Convertible Notes Overshadow Its HPC Deal
Cipher Mining’s (CIFR) $3B HPC deal should have been a catalyst, but the stock went sideways as a $1.3B convertible...
Canaan to Deploy 20 MW of Avalon Bitcoin Miners at Soluna’s Texas Site
Canaan has signed a colocation agreement with Soluna to host 1 EH/s of its Avalon 15XP bitcoin miners as the...
New York State Senator Pushes Legislation To Tax Crypto Miners
New York State Senator Liz Krueger introduced a bill on Wednesday to impose excise taxes on energy used by crypto...
Bitcoin’s Dice Roll Just Got Tougher: Difficulty Climbs 5.97% in Third-Biggest Jump of 2025
By the numbers, Bitcoin’s network difficulty climbed 5.97% at block height 917,280, landing it the title of this year’s third-biggest...
SBI Crypto hit with $21 million theft linked to North Korea hackers
Japanese mining pool operator SBI Crypto has suffered a $21 million theft in a breach that investigators are linking to...
UAE Regulator Clamps Down on Farmland Used for Crypto Mining
The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA), the agricultural regulator for the emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab...
Wind-Powered Hash: Soluna to Host 20 MW of Canaan Miners in Texas
Soluna Holdings and Canaan Inc. signed a hosting deal to deploy 20 megawatts of Avalon A15 XP bitcoin miners at...
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Explosion Fuels Historic Security for Merge-Mined Chains
Bitcoin’s hashrate hit beast mode this week, flexing a record-smashing 1,109 exahash per second (EH/s) as the network cranked its...
TeraWulf Plans $3B Debt Raise With Google Backstop Support
Crypto mining company TeraWulf is reportedly raising approximately $3 billion through Morgan Stanley to build data centers, with tech giant...
Crypto Miner Terawulf to Raise Billions for AI-Driven Data Centers With Google Support
Terawulf Inc. plans to raise $3 billion to expand its data centers, backed by Google’s $3.2 billion commitment. The move...
Why Bitcoin’s hashrate explosion could squeeze public miners next
On Sep. 23, Bitcoin’s hashrate set a new all-time high of 1,073 EH/s. Over the last month, raw compute rose...
Google Buys 5.4% of Cipher Mining With $3B Fluidstack Deal
Google has acquired a 5.4% stake in Bitcoin mining company Cipher Mining as part of a $3 billion multi-year data...
MicroBT Opens US Online Shop With 10,000 Whatsminer Monthly Production Capacity
MicroBT has launched a dedicated online shop in the United States, enabling customers to order domestically built Whatsminer bitcoin mining...
How 5 solo Bitcoin miners cashed in over $350K each in 2025
Five unlikely solo wins of Bitcoin miners in 2025 At a time when Bitcoin (BTC) mining is dominated by large-scale...
