Iranian authorities have confiscated about 7,000 cryptocurrency mining machines. The latest development is in line with Iran’s crackdown on illegal bitcoin mining activities. According to Reuters on Tuesday (June 22, 2021), General Hossein Rahimi, Tehran police chief, revealed that the computer miners were found at an abandoned factory in Iran’s capital, which was used to...Read More
The consequences of the nationwide Chinese crackdown on Bitcoin mining are more than evident in a few short weeks. The hashrate has dropped dramatically by nearly 50% from its peak, the number of daily issued coins has declined, and the Puell Multiple has reached a multi-month low. The Effects of the Chinese Crackdown Although Bitcoin...Read More
A few weeks after China started its nationwide crackdown on Bitcoin mining, new reports have confirmed the speculations that at least some miners will look to transition to the US. The most recent one indicated that three tons of mining machines will move from Guangzhou to Maryland. BTC Miners: From China to the US The...Read More
Denver, Colorado-based Crusoe Energy is capturing the energy from flare gas at oil patches and using it to mine Bitcoin. The firm is now one of North America’s biggest BTC miners and has attracted investment from Coinbase Ventures and the Winklevoss twins according to a recent report. Renewable Bitcoin Mining Crusoe claims that its system...Read More
The Chinese government has reportedly intensified its crackdown on cryptocurrency mining and usage in the country by shutting down several crypto mining facilities in Sichuan. Sichuan Bitcoin Miners Join the List According to Wu Blockchain, the authorities of the Sichuan province officially issued a statement today, mandating every power supply company in the province to...Read More
Huobi, one of China’s most popular Bitcoin exchanges, has reportedly slashed their maximum leverage allowance from 125x to less than 5x for existing users on the back of China’s regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrencies. New users signing up to the platform will not be able to use leverage at all. Exclusive: Due to concerns about regulatory...Read More
Beijing is still issuing orders to shut down Bitcoin mining operations, and many of them are now seeking friendlier climes overseas to base their operations. On Monday, CryptoPotato reported that Yunnan, the fourth-largest Bitcoin mining producer, had been targeted in the regime’s latest crackdown. In what crypto industry observers are calling the “great mining migration,”...Read More
When it comes to Bitcoin, the president of El Salvador does not know what it means to go slow. Over the weekend, he announced that he was working on a proposal to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. 3 days later, he introduced the bill to the Assembly, and hours later that same day, the bill...Read More
Jack Dorsey continues to display his support for the Bitcoin network, this time through the financial services company he runs – Square Inc. The firm has partnered with Blockstream to build an open-source, solar-powered BTC mining facility. Solar-Powered Bitcoin Mining Coming in the US Bitcoin mining became a hot topic within and outside the cryptocurrency...Read More
After blaming BTC mining for electricity blackouts and sending spies to hunt down illegal miners, Iran has placed a temporary ban on such endeavors in its borders. According to a Bloomberg coverage, the Iranian government has placed a ban on all cryptocurrency mining endeavors until September 22nd. The ban is effective immediately and comes ahead...Read More
The recent regulatory crackdowns from the world’s most populated nation have impacted not only crypto prices but businesses inside the industry as well. Huobi has temporarily suspended a portion of its services to new users in China and in other nations. CryptoPotato reported last week China’s latest endeavor against the cryptocurrency industry. In it, the...Read More
Around $400 billion has exited the crypto asset space since Friday in what has been one of the largest mass selloffs of coins and tokens. Total market capitalization had fallen to a three-month low of $1.45 trillion during Monday morning’s Asian trading session. The massive correction has seen markets dump around 43% since their peak...Read More
The Iranian government enlisted intelligence officers with the task of cracking down on illegal cryptocurrency miners. This unprecedented move aims to solve the nation’s concerns with rising electricity consumption. The Government vs. Illegal Crypto Miners The Iranian authorities seem determined to solve their issues with illicit crypto mining. Bloomberg reported that the Ministry of Intelligence...Read More
It goes without saying that Tesla took center stage last week when the company announced it would no longer support bitcoin payments for its electric vehicles. The message seems to have resonated, as Greenidge Generation Bitcoin Mining has vowed to be carbon neutral in 2021 and beyond. Carbon Neutral Bitcoin Mining After announcing plans to...Read More
Bitcoin mining company Riot Blockchain has decided to expand its mining capacity by purchasing 42,000 S19 Antimners from Bitmain, a Hong Kong crypto-mining products manufacturer. The purchase was worth at least $138.5 million and it’s part of the company’s plans to increase its Bitcoin mining hashrate, aiming at 7.7 EH/s by mid-2021 (an increase in...Read More
Data from on-chain analytics provider Glassnode has reported that Bitcoin’s average hash rate hit a new all-time high this week, crossing a daily average of 178 exahashes per second for the first time in history. Bitinfocharts confirms the record high, reporting current hashrates at 176 EH/s. It topped 150 EH/s twice in February and has...Read More
Ripple’s CEO Brad Galinghouse has clarified his stance on bitcoin, clarifying that he has not argued for a ban against it. Nevertheless, he outlined that one transaction with BTC requires about 75 gallons of oil and noted that the entire crypto space should aim at turning bitcoin mining into a clean energy business. Garlinghouse on...Read More
Pakistani province plans to establish two hydroelectric-powered pilot mining farms, hoping to get further exposure to cryptocurrency adoption. Keeping up with the Global Crypto Bullish Trends The Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is reportedly drafting plans to get into the cryptocurrency flow by building two hydroelectric-powered pilot mining farms. According to a recent news report, the region’s...Read More
Popular blockchain company, Blockstream has purchased $25 million worth of MicroBT’s WhatsMiner M30s Bitcoin mining hardware. Blockstream stated in an announcement that it plans to deploy the hardware across its various mining facilities located in the United States and Canada. A Top Secret Mining Facility Furthermore, Blockstream disclosed that it would allocate some of the...Read More
Historically, the Chinese Lunar New Year or Spring Festival has influenced the Bitcoin market. Most often, the asset’s prices dip in the days leading to the event, over the years. Analyst at Singapore-based Stack Funds shed more light on Bitcoin’s performance with regard to the upcoming holidays. Head of research Lennard Neo expected market selling...Read More
On Monday, Marathon Patent Group announced that it bought 4,812.66 BTC, worth $150 million, through the New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG). Merrick Okamoto, Marathon’s chairman & CEO, noted that the investment would help them accelerate the process of turning the company into a “facto investment choice for individuals and institutions who are seeking exposure...Read More
China’s MicroBT, one of the world’s biggest Bitcoin mining rig manufacturers, is planning to go public in the United States, according to local reports. MicroBT manufactures WhatsMiner and over the past year or so, it has gained a significant market share. In fact, it became the second-largest Bitcoin mining rig manufacturer in China, despite being...Read More
BitFarms, a publicly-listed Bitcoin mining operation in Canada, has raised funds amounting to CAD $20 million from U.S-based institutional investors in its latest investment round. According to a press release shared with AMB Crypto, the company entered into subscription agreements with certain institutional investors via a private placement comprised of 8,888,889 common shares, along with...Read More
Institutional interest in Bitcoin may have led to new highs but miners have always emerged as the main proponents of Bitcoin price rallies. Such was the case in 2017 and in 2020, there have been a few signs from miners’ involvement in the price rally. Bitcoin miner’s outflow has dropped over 68% since November 2020...Read More
Canadian miner Bitfarms deployed 1,000 Whatsminer M31S mining rigs. Additionally, the firm will soon acquire 3,000 Whatsminer M31S+ miners which will arrive in late February next year. The firm said this would amp up computing power and drive the growth of DeFi economy. With the addition of these new miners, Bitfarms’ total operating hashrate will...Read More
Bit Digital, a NASDAQ-listed Bitcoin mining company headquartered in New York, has entered into several asset purchase agreements to acquire $13,903,088 worth of Bitcoin miners with a total hash power capacity of 1,000 Ph/s. The agreements also involve an offering of 4,344,711 ordinary shares at a price of $3.20 per share. After this transaction closes,...Read More
En + Group has entered the crypto mining space in a joint venture with bitcoin miner hosting provider BitRiver. Reportedly, the joint venture known as Bit + already saw its first phase of a bitcoin mining facility set up and running with over 10 megawatt-hours of capacity provided by En + The two partners plan...Read More
Will Bitcoin Dump, or Begin Trending in Confined way? Bitcoin price seems to have been pulled back close to $14000 after it’s 12th Whitepaper day on 31st October. In fact, BTC price had crossed $14000 on its birthday for a moment. And currently, it is trending around $13,662 with a mere increase of 0.09% at...Read More
Bitcoin mining is a fairly simple activity from a first-principles economics pov. All other activity in the network is complementary and based on this principle and if Bitcoin had no one but its community of miners, it’d still survive. However, mining is misinterpreted by most. Hashrate influences price or hash follows price. Neither of these...Read More
Daemon Technologies, a firm based in Hong Kong, will now drive the adoption of Stacks technology to support cryptocurrency mining communities in Asia according to its launch tweet. Excited to announce my next chapter in the @blockstack and #stacks ecosystem! https://t.co/JRdZPeDwhi — Xan Ditkoff (@XanDitkoff) August 31, 2020 The firm stated that Asian mining communities were...Read More
