Mining

Texas-based Bitcoin (BTC) miner Riot Platforms secured its largest-ever order of hash rate through the acquisition of 66,560 units of BTC miners, representing 18 EH/s, from MicroBT for $290.5 million, according to a Dec. 4 statement. Riot furthered that it also obtained options to acquire 265,000 additional miners from MicroBT, which would add up to […]

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Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool AntPool said it would refund 83 BTC, more than $3 million, an unknown user had paid as gas fees for a transaction, according to a Nov. 30 statement. On Nov. 23, CryptoSlate Insight reported that BTC block 818,087, mined by AntPool, had seen fees exceeding 85 Bitcoin. Reports later revealed that […]

OCEAN, a new decentralized Bitcoin mining pool, announced that it had raised $6.3 million in seed funding from various sources on Nov. 28. The seed funding round is notably led by Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Block Inc. and also a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter/X. Dorsey said in a statement: “Our contribution […]

Monitoring miner revenue is essential for understanding the health and sustainability of the Bitcoin network. Miner revenue, a combination of block rewards and transaction fees, provides a window into the economic viability of Bitcoin mining. In the context of the upcoming halving, which will slash block rewards by half, the analysis of miner revenue becomes […]

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Celsius Network and its debtors intend to turn the defunct lender into a Bitcoin miner as part of its restructuring, according to a Nov. 20 press release. Celsius customers will own the new entity, tentatively stated as ‘Mining NewCo.’ Mining NewCo Celsius had proposed the formation of Fahrenheit NewCo as part of its restructuring and […]

Abu Dhabi’s Phoenix Group, a Bitcoin (BTC) mining service provider, has completed an initial public offering (IPO) that sold 907 million shares, raising approximately 1.3 billion UAE Dirhams, or $370 million, according to a Nov. 21 statement. The firm said the IPO surpassed its initial expectations, raising 33 times the projected amount. Demand from retail […]

In a significant diversification of its core business of managing the USDT stablecoin, Tether Holdings Ltd. is pivoting a portion of its operations toward Bitcoin (BTC) mining. As reported by Bloomberg, Tether plans to invest approximately half a billion dollars over the next six months, a move that could significantly alter the dynamics of the […]