Bitcoin Miners Bank Strong September as Difficulty Barely Budges
Key TakeawaysBitcoin difficulty dipped just 0.03% to 132.72 trillion at block 969696.September delivered bitcoin miners $1.12 billion, the best month...
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Kazakhstan Turns to Flare Gas to Power Crypto Mining Revival
Key TakeawaysKazakhstan allows miners to use flared gas, tapping up to 1.3TWh of cheap power for crypto operations.Oil companies can...
Riot Repays Coinbase Loan, Ends $200 Million Bitcoin-Backed Facility
This article first appeared in The Energy Mag. The original article can be viewed here. The Energy Mag (formerly The...
Bitcoin Miner Hive Escalates Swedish VAT Dispute to European Commission
Key TakeawaysSweden reclassified Hive’s datacenter services as self-mining, retroactively denying input VAT recovery.Hive argues it provides taxable compute power, meaning...
Bitcoin Miner Bitdeer Adds 65.1MW for Nvidia AI as Pipeline Hits $7B
Key TakeawaysBitdeer added 65.1 MW in Malaysia, lifting secured AI Cloud capacity to 206.5 MW.The shift shows bitcoin miners chasing...
Ethiopia’s Bitcoin Mining Boom Just Ran Into a Water Problem
Key TakeawaysEthiopian Electric Power (EEP) cut bitcoin miners to 23% of contracted power after reservoir inflows fell 20%.Ethiopia’s miners used...
Deep in Mexico’s Jungle, Police Found 300 Crypto Miners Humming
Key TakeawaysTlaola police followed strange noises and power use and found 300 GPU miners humming away deep in Puebla’s jungle.Reuters...
A New Scoreboard in AI Power Arms Race
This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by Blocksbridge Consulting curating the latest news in energy, compute,...
Grayscale Says Rewards Beat Bitcoin 2x
Key TakeawaysGrayscale estimates Zcash rewards at twice Bitcoin’s daily rewards per rig.Zcash mining activity has increased more than 2.5 times...
Solo Bitcoin Miner Hits $244K Jackpot After Nearly 40-Day Drought
Key TakeawaysBraiins Solo landed block 966351, handing one miner the full 3.147 BTC reward.Foundry and Antpool face a rare solo...
Bitcoin Miners Unplug 23% as AI Revenue Surges 52%
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Difficulty Rises, Hashprice Rips 22% as Bitcoin Hashrate Stalls
Key TakeawaysAt block height 965664, Bitcoin difficulty ticked up 1.31% to 127.45T, marking its 8th bump of 2026.Bitcoin hashprice popped...
Zcash Price Spike Fuels Massive Mining Profits and Hashrate Boom
Key TakeawaysZEC clocked $979 on Sept. 3, logging a significant 88.1% gain over the past 30 days.Zcash hashrate is sitting...
Bitcoin Hashrate Enters First Bear Market as AI Pulls Miners Away
Key TakeawaysTwenty One Capital says bitcoin entered its first hashrate bear market after peaking near 1.3 ZH/s.AI demand is pulling...
Bitcoin Miners Pocket $1B in August, but Halving Pain Still Lingers
Key TakeawaysBitcoin miners had a great deal to celebrate in August, pulling in around $1.008 billion as hashprice climbed to...
Bitcoin Miners Get a Lifeline as Hashprice Explodes 20% Higher
Key TakeawaysBitcoin hashprice jumped 20.41% in 4 days, lifting miner revenue to $38.29 PH/s.Foundry USA leads 133 mining pools as...
Tether’s $120M Uruguay Bitcoin Mining Bet Ends in Power Dispute
This article first appeared in The Energy Mag. The original article can be viewed here. The Energy Mag (formerly The...
Swedish Tax Scrutiny Shadows Crypto Miners’ Pivot to AI
This article first appeared in The Energy Mag. The original article can be viewed here. The Energy Mag (formerly The...
Zcash Rally Widens Mining Revenue Lead Over Bitcoin and AI HPC
This article first appeared in The Energy Mag. The original article can be viewed here. The Energy Mag (formerly The...
US Bitcoin Mining Grip Slips From Q1 to Q3 as Rival Nations Gain
Key TakeawaysU.S. Bitcoin hashrate share fell 0.823% in 2026, with roughly 55 EH/s lost.Russia and China gained Bitcoin mining share...
Bitcoin Mining Consumes 30% of Paraguay Energy, Analysts Reveal
Key TakeawaysBitcoin mining uses 30% of Paraguay’s power, sparking warnings of a major energy crisis by 2029.Stagnant power generation and...
Zcash Hashrate Goes Vertical as $870 ZEC Price Wakes ASIC Giants
Key TakeawaysZcash hashrate hit the mid-to-high-20s GSol/s as ZEC traded near $870 this week.Bitmain’s Z15 Pro pumps 840 kSol/s as...
