Tag Archives: Bitcoin Mining

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,...

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...