Tag Archives: Bitcoin Mining

While Bitcoin has nearly doubled in value since the start of the year, one of its close neighbors in the investment universe has proven a more profitable buy: mining companies. Nearly all publicly-traded Bitcoin mining firms have soared over 100% since January 1, benefitted by both BTC’s rising value and positive business developments. Bitcoin Miners VS BTC Shares for Marathon Digital (MARA), one of the largest public miners by hashrate, are currently up 158% year to date....

Gabbani, a hotel company based in Lugano, Switzerland, has unveiled an initiative to mine Bitcoin using excess energy from its food production facility. The new project is set to solidify Lugano’s status as the leading European blockchain hub. According to an official announcement by stablecoin issuing company Tether, Gabbani will install a Bitcoin mining system in its food production facility to harness excess energy as electricity costs in Europe continue to rise. Food...

September of 2023 was a great month for Bitcoin mining companies. While the crypto world has been focused on the high-profile court cases regarding SBF and Celsius’ Mashinsky, Bitcoin miners have steadily been improving their hash rates, promising a greater future supply of the first cryptocurrency. News of record outputs from three Bitcoin mining firms coincides with reports of Kraken witnessing a 5-year ATH of BTC inflow and a 506.06M hash rate spike in mid-September,...

Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA), a prominent Bitcoin mining company, has reportedly mined an invalid Bitcoin block at height 809478. According to various developers, miners, and researchers, the invalid Bitcoin block resulted from a wrong transaction ordering. Anonymous Developer Exposes Transaction Ordering Issue The issue was first brought to light by an anonymous Bitcoin developer known as 0xB10C, who took to social media platform X to report the incident. According to...

While the Bitcoin market remained relatively stable in the latter part of Q3 as discussions about spot ETFs subsided, the hash rate exhibited consistent growth throughout the quarter. It recently reached a fresh milestone, surging from 250 EH/s at the start of 2023 to more than 400 EH/s this month. Bitcoin mining difficulty is also showing no signs of stopping as it set a new all-time high of 57.11 T. While hash price conditions remain challenging, the new Coin Metrics report...

Bit Deer Technologies Group is opening a new crypto mining facility in the Asian country of Bhutan. Bit Deer Sets Its Sights on Asia Bit Deer is a crypto mining firm based in Singapore. Founded by Chinese billionaire Jihan Wu, the company stated that it has recently finished power testing the facility and it will open its doors for BTC extraction purposes. Linghui Kong – the CEO of Bit Deer – said in a recent statement: Our Gedu data center, nestled in the serene...

Core Scientific, Inc., a prominent player in high-performance blockchain computing data centers and software solutions, has revealed that Bitmain, a global leader in manufacturing digital currency mining servers, will be making a significant investment of $53.9 million in it. This move further strengthens the longstanding relationship between the two companies. Bitmain and Core Scientific have agreed to acquire new Bitcoin mining equipment and host a new hosting agreement....

The Bitcoin network is currently dealing with an increase in transaction congestion, with data from the Mempool indicating a backlog of over 470,000 pending transactions. Somewhat expectedly, this has resulted in the transaction fees on the Bitcoin Network fluctuating quite severely. Bitcoin Transaction Fees Fluctuate Mempool data reveals that the Bitcoin Network is experiencing the longest block fullness with over 470,000 pending transactions. Recent data also reveals that...

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,...