Tag Archives: Bitcoin Mining

The Iranian Ministry of Energy has ordered local authorized cryptocurrency miners to temporarily suspend their activities in the face of electricity shortages during the coldest months of the year. This is the second time authorities take measures of this kind as they did the same between May and September this year. Same Ban, Different Season After blaming BTC mining for electricity blackouts, the Iranian government placed a temporary ban at the end of May. The country’s...

Meten Holding Group Ltd. – an English-language training program used regularly in China – has joined a panel of experts to establish a whole new bitcoin mining and research firm. Meten Holding Is Building Its Own Mining Firm The new company will study, build, and sell mining equipment. Among the industry experts that are helping Meten create its new line of business are Mr. Zhijun Liu, VP of Hummingbird Mining Machine, a crypto mining enterprise; Yunning Li, the former...

Eco Penguin – a company designed to offset carbon emissions in the crypto industry – is partnering with a non-profit company known as Carbon Offsets to Alleviate Poverty (COTAP). It is the first carbon-offsetting company to accept crypto as a method of payment. Eco Penguin Is Hoping to Limit Carbon Emissions from Crypto The goal is to help all crypto firms accept responsibility for the damage they allegedly cause to the environment. This has been a heavy topic over the...

Ever since the mid-year substantial sell-off, bitcoin miners’ reserves have been gradually rising, and their total holdings have reached a six-month high. Additionally, on-chain data showed that the reaccumulation levels had reached the September highs, right before BTC started to gain value rapidly. Miners Back to HODLing It was back in June this year when most bitcoin miners disposed of significant portions of their holdings in a relatively short period. This had a...

SPC Miner – a crypto mining rig manufacturer that has its headquarters in the United Kingdom – has announced it’s going to start mining digital currencies in Kazakhstan. As the world’s biggest landlocked country, Kazakhstan offers the company the space and resources it needs to already begin setting up its new S21 mining rigs throughout the nation. Kazakhstan Is the New Go-To Place for Mining Projects Kazakhstan has become something of a central bitcoin mining hub for...

Stronghold Digital Mining purchased over 9000 BTC mining rigs, which will allow it to add roughly 826 petahashes per second (PH/s) to its power generation facilities. The Pennsylvania-based company bought 9080 Bitmain and MicroBT mining rigs, as per an SEC filing on Monday. The announcement is part of Stronghold’s Q3 earnings release on Nov. 30, 2021, which denotes that the company has signed four separate deals for the mining rigs. The first 4,800 mining rigs are expected to...

China made headlines this year when it decided to end all bitcoin and crypto mining projects within its borders. However, while many of the miners in the country decided to leave or call it quits, there are many others that felt they should stick around and carry out their mining projects in secret. They’re now running an underground mining ecosystem, and they’re hoping every day that the authorities don’t find out about what they’re doing. China Has Ended Crypto Mining,...

Canaan Inc – one of the largest bitcoin mining companies in the world – is now the subject of a class-action lawsuit brought forth by several investors through a Manhattan court. A federal judge has ruled that a Hong Kong couple should lead the securities-fraud suit against the firm even though the filing was delivered late. Canaan Is at the Center of a Heavy Suit The decision was made by U.S. District Judge John Cronan, who believes that Bill Lu and Liyang Huang are the...

Several Chinese crypto miners are getting kicked out again, though this time, it’s not Beijing that’s giving the order. It’s regions like Kazakhstan, which have seen a huge influx of miners from China following the nation’s decision that crypto mining is no longer an acceptable business within its borders. Kazakhstan Doesn’t Have the Energy for All This Regions such as Kazakhstan, Florida, and Texas were quick to offer homes to the many crypto miners that were forced to...

TeraWulf – an American bitcoin mining company – raised around $200 million in debt and equity financing from a group of individual and institutional investors. As a result, the firm expects to achieve a mining capacity of 6 exahash per second or 200 megawatts by the second part of 2022. Furthermore, TeraWulf eyes public listing on Nasdaq through a business merger with the tech company IKONICS Corporation. TeraWulf Aims High As part of the $200 million financing, TeraWulf...