Kazakhstan Turns to Flare Gas to Power Crypto Mining Revival
Kazakhstan is working to entice crypto miners to take advantage of flared gas opportunities as part of a push to revive mining, which was severely hampered by power limitations imposed…
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Riot Repays Coinbase Loan, Ends $200 Million Bitcoin-Backed Facility
Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) has repaid its outstanding borrowing from Coinbase Credit and terminated a $200 million credit facility, releasing the lender’s claims on the bitcoin assets pledged to secure…
Bitcoin Miner Hive Escalates Swedish VAT Dispute to European Commission
The Swedish Tax Agency, Bikupa Datacenter AB, and Bikupa Datacenter 2 AB, Swedish subsidiaries of bitcoin mining firm Hive Digital Technologies, are engaged in a legal battle that might affect…
NASA’s Apollo Computer Mined Bitcoin in 2019 But Today It Would Take Forever
The computer that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon once ran Bitcoin’s mining math, and a viral clip of the stunt is lighting up crypto timelines again this week. The…
Ethiopia’s Bitcoin Mining Boom Just Ran Into a Water Problem
Ethiopia has cut electricity deliveries to bitcoin miners by 75%, leaving them with just 23% of contracted power after El Niño reduced reservoir inflows by roughly 20%. The twist is…
Bitcoin Miner Bitdeer Adds 65.1MW for Nvidia AI as Pipeline Hits $7B
Bitdeer has secured another 65.1 megawatts of AI data-center capacity in Malaysia, taking its committed AI Cloud footprint to about 206.5 MW. The expansion underscores how bitcoin miners are increasingly…
ERCOT Batch Zero: A New Scoreboard in AI Power Arms Race
Bitcoin miners have found a new way to flex. In 2021, they competed on mining machine preorders and exahashes promised. In 2024 and 2025, the contest shifted toward HPC contracts:…
Zcash Mining Highly Profitable: Grayscale Says Rewards Beat Bitcoin 2x
Zcash mining rewards are roughly twice Bitcoin’s per machine and four times higher per unit of electricity, Grayscale estimates. Strong token prices are encouraging more mining activity, with the firm…
Deep in Mexico’s Jungle, Police Found 300 Crypto Miners Humming
According to reports, Mexican law enforcement authorities discovered a cryptocurrency mining farm located deep in the remote Sierra Norte mountains of Puebla. Officials believe the GPU farm was financed via…
Solo Bitcoin Miner Hits $244K Jackpot After Nearly 40-Day Drought
Earlier this week, at block height 966351, against some seriously long odds, a solo miner hit the jackpot, raking in a solid $244,920 worth of bitcoin. Someone mining through Braiins…