Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops by 11% Amid Steep Market Downturn
Update (2-7-2026) This article has been updated to provide the latest projections for the next Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustmentThe Bitcoin...
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Bitcoin Difficulty Logs 11.16% Reduction, Largest Drop Since China’s 2021 Mining Crackdown
This weekend, the Bitcoin network logged its steepest difficulty cut since July 3, 2021—a moment that followed China’s sweeping ban...
Bitcoin miners find hope in Big Tech’s $500B AI spending spree
Big Tech companies' planned $500 billion war chest to dominate artificial intelligence could offer a lifeline to a Bitcoin mining...
Turkmenistan Legalizes Crypto But With Strict State Controls
Turkmenistan has approved a sweeping law to legalize and tightly regulate the cryptocurrency industry, marking a major policy shift for...
Bitcoin Miners Hit ‘Shutdown Prices’ as Profitability Slumps to Multi-Month Low
Older and mid‑range mining rigs like the Antminer S19 XP+ Hydro, Whatsminer M60S and Avalon A1466I have reportedly already crossed...
Bitcoin miners caught between plummeting prices and AI allure
The euphoria of October’s record highs has evaporated, leaving the industrial backbone of the Bitcoin network facing a brutal reality...
Tether Pauses Bitcoin Mining In Uruguay Over Rising Costs
Tether, issuer of USDT, the world’s largest stablecoin, has halted Bitcoin mining operations in Uruguay because of rising energy costs.“We...
Hashprice Near Yearly Lows Puts Bitcoin Miners Under Heavy Pressure
Bitcoin miners are kicking off February on shaky ground, with revenue slipping hard since mid-January and sitting well below July’s...
Bitcoin hashrate slumps as US miners curtail during winter storm
Earlier this week, a sweeping US winter storm pushed Bitcoin miners to curtail, pulling a noticeable chunk of computing power...
Bhutan Partners With Cumberland to Explore Digital Asset Infrastructure
Bhutan signed a multi-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with crypto market maker Cumberland DRW to collaborate on building digital asset...
Miner Weekly: AI Inherits Bitcoin Mining’s Hard Lesson – Locals Matter
For much of the past decade, bitcoin miners expanding across the United States learned that access to cheap power and...
Massive Bitcoin Difficulty Cut Looms After Hashrate Loses Nearly 250 EH/s
As an Arctic storm front batters multiple U.S. states, bitcoin mining activity across the country has pulled back sharply, with...
Brutal storm weakens Bitcoin security as major mining pool drops 30% of its hashing power
One thing we rarely think about is how bad weather can affect Bitcoin's security, but it happens fairly regularly. Snow...
Deadly Winter Storm in US Impacts Foundry USA and Other Mining Pools
The Bitcoin mining hashrate secured by Foundry USA’s mining pool fell by roughly 60% since Friday as miners across the...
Report: Arctic Storm Front Disrupts US Bitcoin Mining, Block Times Stretch Past 12 Minutes
On Sunday morning around 10 a.m., theminermag.com—a platform tracking bitcoin mining news, data, research, and analysis—reported that Foundry USA has...
Nasdaq Tells Canaan to Boost Share Price or Face Delisting
Crypto mining hardware maker Canaan Inc., which has seen its shares down 63% in the last 12 months, has received...
Bitcoin Difficulty Slides to September 2025 Levels as Miner Margins Stay Squeezed
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty eased on Thursday, sliding 3.28% from 146.47 trillion to 141.67 trillion—a level not seen since September 2025,...
How solo Bitcoin miners won 22 blocks in 12 months as another hit the jackpot this week
A single Bitcoin (BTC) miner collected a full block reward on Jan. 13, claiming 3.125 BTC plus fees worth close...
How Bitcoin Mining Waste Heat Is Being Used to Warm Canadian Greenhouses
Key takeawaysBitcoin mining produces large amounts of heat that are typically treated as waste. In cold regions, this thermal output...
11 EH/s: Bitmain Eyes a New Bitcoin Mining Proxy? – Miner Weekly
While most attention in recent months has focused on publicly traded miners racing to add hashrate or pivot toward AI,...
Bitcoin difficulty just retreated, but a more critical “survival metric” signals the mining sector is bleeding out
Bitcoin’s first difficulty adjustment of 2026 was anything but dramatic. The network nudged the dial down to about 146.4 trillion,...
Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark Continues Expansion into AI, HPC with Acquisition
CleanSpark’s move into AI and high-performance computing reflects a broader shift among Bitcoin miners facing rising difficulty and costs.Bitcoin mining...
