Riot lease gives Anthropic a veto on voluntary power cuts
Riot Platforms' Corsicana lease with AI company Anthropic became binding Nov. 4, making voluntary curtailment of the tenant's power load...
Mining
Bitcoin mining news: hashrate, difficulty, miner revenue, public miners and the shift to AI data centers.
Bitcoin’s 7-Day Hashrate Returns to 1 ZH/s After Nearly 8 Months
Bitcoin’s seven-day average hashrate reclaimed 1 ZH/s for the first time since March 3.More efficient mining hardware and smaller...
Bitcoin mining difficulty hits 148 trillion as revenues fall to three-month lows
Bitcoin's mining difficulty jumped 5.54% on Oct. 29 as recovering network computing power intensified competition among miners already facing shrinking...
Bitcoin Mining Revenue Hits 11-Month High Despite Brutal Hashprice Decline
Bitcoin miners face mounting pressure as market conditions deteriorate.October’s mining figures reveal an unexpected financial contradiction.November could expose deeper...
AI wants Bitcoin miners’ power, but the contracts reveal who really gets paid
Bitcoin miners spent years securing cheap electricity, building substations, and negotiating the grid connections needed to power their operations. Now...
Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Miner Moves $203M in Bitcoin
A Satoshi-era Bitcoin whale transferred 2,650 Bitcoin worth about $203 million to FalconX and Cumberland over-the-counter (OTC) trading desks, in...
Two Solo Bitcoin Miners Hit the Jackpot Against Industrial Mining Giants
Two solo bitcoin miners independently discovered blocks 973262 and 973413 on consecutive days, beating extraordinary odds.One miner reportedly operated...
Bitcoin moves over $5 billion in value but miners collect just $185,000 in transaction fees
Bitcoin's transfer value surged 26% to $5.5 billion last week, even as transaction fees paid to miners declined, according to...
Luxor Raises $16M from CMT Digital Amid AI-Bitcoin Miner Compute Convergence
Full-stack compute company Luxor Technology raised $16 million in a strategic round led by CMT Digital.The investment round also saw...
Monero Hashrate Nears Record Highs as XMR Price Gains 70% in a Year
Monero’s network hashrate reached an estimated 7.12 GH/s on Oct. 26.SupportXMR, Nanopool and Kryptex collectively accounted for approximately 60%...
Bitcoin mining AI: Who approves equipment commands?
Paolo Ardoino's push to bring AI into Bitcoin mining has a human decision at its center: who may authorize a...
Bitcoin Hashrate Shrugs off the AI Unplug, Regaining 1 ZH/s Level
This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by Blocksbridge Consulting curating the latest news in energy, compute,...
Former FTX-backed Bitcoin miner pivots to AI
SWI Group has raised €800 million to expand AI infrastructure, advancing its plan to repurpose FTX-backed Bitcoin miner Genesis Digital...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Jumps 5.92% in Third-Largest Hike of 2026
Bitcoin mining just got a whole lot tougher, with difficulty climbing 5.92% to 140.58 trillion, its highest reading since...
Fortitude sold $8.3 million in borrowed Zcash for expansion
Zcash mining operator Fortitude Mining’s expansion shows how investment in infrastructure can bring existing ZEC to market without requiring the...
Esports Firm Ninjas in Pyjamas Boosts Bitcoin Mining Operation With Added Rigs
NIP Group said it is acquiring 4.47 EH/s of bitcoin mining capacity, expanding its total hashrate to approximately 13.85...
Cipher’s $850 million AI bet deepens investor scrutiny as Bitcoin miner’s stock plunges 52%
Cipher Digital shares slumped after the Bitcoin miner issued 40.7 million shares and borrowed $850 million to fund AI expansion.Data...
MARA Ships $83 Million in Bitcoin to Exchanges as Its Stock Sinks 45%
MARA-linked wallets sent 1,000 BTC to Binance, Gate and Coinbase in 500 BTC lots on Oct. 14 and Oct....
Binance Pool shuts on November 10, with record access ending two weeks later
Miners connected to Binance Pool need to redirect their equipment before 07:00 UTC on Nov. 10, 2026, when Binance will...
Bitcoin Miners Face Rising AI Infrastructure Funding Needs
Bitcoin mining companies expanding into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing face sharply different borrowing costs as lenders scrutinize large-scale data...
Block’s Proto Bitcoin Mining Hardware Now Available to Own via Sazmining
Sazmining launches Proto mining hardware sales, offering individual ownership of Block’s immersion hashboards.Customers own their hashboards, while Sazmining handles...
Bitcoin difficulty rise could put rigs below power cost
Bitcoin miners face a projected 5.68% difficulty increase around Oct. 16, putting equipment with thin electricity cushions under pressure. If...
