From High Gear to Grind: Bitcoin Hashrate Slides 75 EH/s After Etching New Record
Bitcoin’s hashrate hit a record-setting 943 exahash per second (EH/s) on May 31, but in the days since then, the...
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Could MARA be readying to team with Exxon or Aramco on flare gas Bitcoin mining?
Could MARA (formerly Marathon Digital) be in exploratory talks with Exxon Mobil and Saudi Aramco to colocate Bitcoin mining units...
Cryptojacking Group Hacks Hundreds Of Devices To Mine Crypto
The Librarian Ghouls hacker group has compromised hundreds of Russian devices and used them to mine crypto in an apparent...
Bitmain’s 1.16 PH/s Bitcoin Mining Beast: The ASIC Arms Race Just Got Real
Over the past three years, bitcoin mining gear has evolved dramatically—from machines cranking out massive terahash to widely available rigs...
Tether to democratize Bitcoin mining with open-source software debut
Tether is building a gateway for new players to enter Bitcoin mining by releasing its Bitcoin Mining OS (MOS) as...
Ukraine arrests alleged cryptojacker for breaching 5K accounts
Ukrainian police have arrested a man and accused him of hacking the accounts of an international hosting company and using...
SHA256 Strikes Back: Bitcoin’s Mining Algorithm Reclaims the Throne in 2025
When 2024 wrapped up, the SHA256 consensus algorithm used by Bitcoin ranked third in profitability, but now, as we kick...
Solo Bitcoin Miner Wins $330K Block as Difficulty Hits Record 126.98T
A solo Bitcoin miner successfully mined block 899,826, earning a reward worth $330,386, a rare feat amid record-high network difficulty.According...
Riot Hires Data Center Chief as Bitcoin Miner Ramps Up HPC and AI Hosting Plans
Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) has appointed Jonathan Gibbs as its new Chief Data Center Officer (CDCO) as the company pushes...
Pakistan Crypto Minister Meets Trump’s Digital Assets Chief
Pakistan’s minister of state for crypto and blockchain, Bilal Bin Saqib, met with Robert “Bo” Hines, executive director of US...
Bitcoin Miners Bank Big in May—Highest Monthly Earnings Since the Halving
Figures logged in May show that bitcoin miners achieved their most lucrative month since the network’s fourth halving in April...
IMF asks for urgent clarification from Pakistan over 2,000MW power allocation to Bitcoin mining
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants Pakistan to urgently clarify its plans for allocating power to Bitcoin mining amid the...
IMF Flags Concern Over Pakistan’s Bitcoin Mining Plan
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised concerns over Pakistan’s decision to allocate 2,000 megawatts of electricity for Bitcoin mining...
Bitmain Unveils ‘Most Efficient’ Mining Rig Amid Market Shift
Bitmain has launched the Antminer S23 Hydro series, featuring a performance of 580 terahash per second (TH/s) and a power...
Is this still Satoshi’s Bitcoin? Bitcoin Conference keynotes dominated by politicians and corporations
Vegas glitters differently when thirty thousand badge-wearing bitcoiners clog the marble concourses of the Venetian, screens flashing a frothy $105-to-106k...
Theminermag Bitcoin Mining Update: April/May 2025
This article is from Theminermag, a trade publication for the cryptocurrency mining industry, focusing on the latest news and research...
VanEck proposes mining royalty to fill US strategic Bitcoin reserve in a budget-neutral way
VanEck head of digital assets research Matthew Sigel called on US lawmakers to attach a royalty to domestic Bitcoin (BTC)...
Hashpower Hot Zones: North America, Eurasia, and Latin America Lead Bitcoin’s Hashrate Race
At press time, the Bitcoin network hashrate is cruising along just above the 900 exahash per second (EH/s) range and...
Pakistan to allocate 2,000 MW for Bitcoin mining and AI data centers
Pakistan will allocate 2,000 megawatts of electricity for Bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.According to a Bloomberg report,...
Pakistan allocates 2,000MW power for Bitcoin mining and AI centers
Pakistan has allocated 2,000 megawatts of surplus electricity exclusively for Bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence centers.The move is part of...
Compass Mining, Synota Redirect Bitcoin Hashrate to Fund Energy and Healthcare Initiatives
Compass Mining has partnered with Synota’s “Impact Mining” initiative to redirect a portion of bitcoin mining revenue toward subsidizing energy...
Bitcoin Mining Just Got Tougher as Difficulty Spikes and Hashrate Slips
On Saturday, at block height 897,120, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty increased by 2.13%, reaching 121.66 trillion and marginally raising the computational...
