Mining

Democratic presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy Jr. has serious issues with the idea that bitcoin is causing harm to the world’s oceans and environment. Robert Kennedy Dismisses Environmental Concerns Regarding BTC Bitcoin – especially bitcoin mining – has been the subject of several environmentalists’ wrath over the past few years. There have been many reports claiming that crypto mining is doing irreparable harm to the planet and the process uses more energy than...

If not for anything else, the latest report about clean energy usage could mean a greater move toward the adoption of BTC. A Bloomberg analyst has just reported on the present situation with Bitcoin (BTC) miners as it concerns clean energy usage. In a recent thread on X (formerly Twitter), the analyst, Jamie Coutts said that the percentage of clean energy used for Bitcoin mining has gone past 50%. That is more than 50% of Bitcoin mining now comes from renewable sources. According to...

The crypto community on X (Twitter) was baffled recently after an anonymous Bitcoin user paid a whopping 19.89 BTC (over $500,000) in transaction fees to move just 0.074 BTC (worth less than $2,000 at current rates). The payment went to the Bitcoin mining pool F2Pool that generated the valid block. The team behind the entity revealed that the transaction will be put on hold for three days in case the person or organization who conducted it wants to claim it back. Otherwise,...

Récemment de retour dans les débats, les drivechains sont des chaines parallèles (sidechains) qui font reposer à la fois leur consensus de validation et leur two-way peg [1] sur les mineurs de la chaine principale. Elles utilisent le minage fusionné (merge mining) pour la validation des blocs, et le vote des mineurs pour le two-way peg. Tel qu’il existe aujourd’hui, le protocole Bitcoin ne permet pas la mise en place de drivechains. En 2017 Paul Sztorc a donc proposé deux...

Gideon Powell – the chief executive of Texas-based petroleum company Cholla Inc. – thinks bitcoin miners are revolutionary people that are bringing new levels of innovation to the U.S. Gideon Powell on What Makes BTC Miners Important In an interview, he said: Thinking about this from a capability standpoint, the ‘compute cowboys’ are unlocking new power markets for data centers and thinking about the future of industrial manufacturing. It’s all in its infancy....

Texas has garnered a reputation for being very pro crypto. The state opened its borders to several miners from China about two years ago after their home country announced in the summer of 2021 that crypto mining would no longer be permitted per new rules from Beijing. Texas Citizens Have Mining Concerns With nowhere to turn, many reverted their sights to the Lone Star State, admiring its many open lands and its cheap electricity prices. Not wanting to miss out on...

Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital Holdings announced producing 1,072 BTC in August, which represented a drop of 9% from the previous month due to extreme weather conditions in Texas. Despite the decrease in Bitcoin production, the figure is still five times more than in August of last year. Marathon’s Bitcoin Production: August Edition In its unaudited BTC production and miner installation updates for the month of August, Marathon Digital cited increased curtailment...

The leading cryptocurrency miner – Argo Blockchain – has reportedly decreased its debt to $75 million during the first half of the year. In comparison, it owed $143 million at the end of June 2022.  The company also managed to reduce overall costs and expenses. However, revenue in H1 was significantly less than the one registered in the first half of last year.  The H1 Results As reported by London South East, Argo Blockchain’s pretax loss for the first six months of 2023...

One of the leading cryptocurrency mining companies – Stronghold Digital Mining – is reportedly planning to use tire-derived fuel (made of shredded vehicle tires) in its operations in the state of Pennsylvania.  Burning such items is a toxic process that contaminates the nearby air, water, and soil. As such, it is no surprise that some locals and green activists are firmly against it. Mining BTC Via Such a Method is ‘Really Unacceptable’ According to a coverage by The...

While Bitcoin network fundamentals such as hash rate and difficulty have reached peaks, the same cannot be said for its hash price. The world’s largest crypto’s price has failed to recover, and miners are facing the brunt of it yet again. Bitcoin hash price – which can be described as the revenue generated by miners on a per tera-hash basis – has declined to levels not seen since the dramatic implosion of FTX in November 2022. Bitcoin Miner Revenue Declines Data from...