Category: Mining

Bitcoin miner Canaan reported a fall in the third-quarter results with revenue seeing a fall of 25.8% from the year-ago quarter. Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $23.4 million, a decrease of 71.7% from the same period in 2021. The company’s revenue for Q3 2022 was $137.5 million. However, mining revenue in Q3 2022

St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Terrance Drew announced that BCH will become legal tender in the country by March 2023 during a BCH conference in St. Kitts and Nevis. He added that the country will also look into mining BCH and welcomes dialogue and exploration of “future opportunities” with the cryptocurrency. The Prime Minister

The ongoing market slump caused by the FTX fallout hasn’t left Bitcoin miners unscathed. The market has seen the biggest one-day miner selling pressure since January 2021, and data analyzed by CryptoSlate shows that the selling pressure shows no signs of stopping. We could see extended selling pressure from miners until the average hash price

Ethereum became the most deflationary in its history, as the annual supply dipped below zero for the first time since the Merge. According to Ultrasound Money, the annual inflation rate has fallen to -0.032/year, which indicates that the network is now burning more Ethereum than its minting. The negative inflation rate has decreased Ethereum’s net

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel said on a Nov. 8 earnings call that the company is going through a “transition period” as it looks to grow from 7EH/s to 23EH/s by mid-2023. Marathon increases hashrate Further, the company has increased its number of Bitcoin miners to 6,000, resulting in a rise from 72 BTC mined

Bitcoin (BTC) mining company Marathon Digital Holdings’ (NASDAQ:MARA) earnings report for Q3 2022 shows that the company’s production fell 51% to 616 Bitcoins from 1,252 Bitcoins in Q3 2021. The company also recorded $12.7 million in revenue, as opposed to the $51.7 million in the prior-year quarter. Marathon said the decline mainly resulted from lower

Bitcoin’s (BTC) mining difficulty has plateaued since the beginning of November and saw a 0.19 percent drop on Nov. 7 following its latest adjustment, according to CryptoSlate’s analysis of Glassnode data. Bitcoin mining difficulty (Source: Glassnode) The chart above shows that mining difficulty has jumped significantly starting August all the way through November. The difficulty

Bitcoin miners have been selling BTC holdings at a rate not seen since early 2021. Further, the persistence of the negative net position change has not occurred since 2017. Miners consistently sold Bitcoin for the past three months at an aggressive rate likely to cover liabilities such as energy bills and loans. Source: Glassnode Since

Bitcoin mining and its energy consumption have recently been the subject of many heated debates. As governments and institutions around the world keep introducing new measures to combat pollution and climate change, Bitcoin’s energy-guzzling network sticks out like a sore thumb. Various data aggregators and trackers work around the clock to provide the market with

The unsustainable financial system in Lebanon has brought some Lebanese to crypto. Locals are mining Bitcoin or storing wealth with cryptocurrency and completing some payments with Tether.  Dire Economic Situation in Lebanon In 2019, Lebanon fell into a financial crisis after years of expensive wars and poor spending decisions. A CNBC ground report outlined the