Bitcoin price plummets while miner hash rate soars to all-time highs
The overall security of the Bitcoin protocol, or hashrate, hit a new high of 158 exahash per second despite the price being down over 50% year to date.
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The overall security of the Bitcoin protocol, or hashrate, hit a new high of 158 exahash per second despite the price being down over 50% year to date.
Bitcoin miners are now holding fewer than 2 million BTC on reserve, according to data from IntoTheBlock. That’s the lowest amount of Bitcoin held by all tracked pools and miners…
The Texas-based bitcoin mining giant is entering a merger agreement with SilverSun Technologies, a publicly-traded business technology solutions provider, as Rhodium is planning to list on Nasdaq after an initial…
Recent weeks have caused fresh headaches for miners, who at one point were reducing their balances by more than 8,500 BTC per month.
On September 28, the bitcoin mining operator and clean-technology company, SAI Tech, announced the launch of two liquid cooling bitcoin mining infrastructure products called the Tankbox and Rackbox. The two…
Bitcoin miners continue to operate at a loss as long-term holders are selling at a loss, according to an on-chain analysis from Glassnode. The firm estimates that industry players are…
While bitcoin is down more than 72% from the crypto asset’s all-time high, bitcoin mining operations are expanding at a rapid pace during the downturn. On Tuesday, the bitcoin miner…
On-chain data shows that Bitcoin’s mining difficulty was lowered to 31.36 trillion hashes at a block height of 756,000. Despite this, the Bitcoin ecosystem is still guarded by the most…
Following four consecutive Bitcoin mining difficulty increases, the network’s difficulty dropped for the first time in 68 days, sliding 2.14% at block height 756,000 on Tuesday. The change means it’s…
A new study published Tuesday by the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance (CCAF) shows that almost 62% of Bitcoin’s total energy consumption since January 2022 was generated from fossil fuels.…