Tag Archives: Bitcoin Mining

The valuation of the company has risen above $3 billion after completing the Series B round in which some of the participants included iFinex and Baillie Gifford. Blockstream aims to use the funds towards manufacturing mining chips. As reported by Canadian media on August 24th, Blockstream has further solidified its positioning as a cryptocurrency unicorn firm following the latest funding. The UK private equity firm Baillie Gifford and iFinex, the parent company of Bitfinex...

Crypto mining firm Argo Blockchain has become the first official company of its kind to release a climate plan to carry it through the future. Argo Blockchain Is Looking to Be More Environmentally Friendly The idea of crypto mining is necessary to ensure digital blockchains are consistently supplied with new tokens. However, the process has been quite controversial over the past few months given that it is allegedly causing irreversible damage to the planet according to...

Clean Spark Inc., a “clean” bitcoin mining firm, says it has obtained a second data center in the town of Norcross, Georgia. The move is designed to boost the amount of bitcoin and crypto the company extracts from the blockchain, and the new center encompasses approximately 87,000 square feet. Clean Spark Buys Into Bitcoin Even More Clean Spark is now expected to extract as much as 18 new bitcoin units per day. The new data center was formerly a Sprint/Nextel firm....

Fidelity Investments Inc. is now a major stakeholder in Marathon Digital Holdings, one of the biggest bitcoin mining firms in North America. Fidelity Investments Buys More Than 7% of Marathon At the time of writing, Fidelity has purchased a 7.4 percent stake in the crypto mining enterprise, thereby boosting the institutional presence that has grown so prevalent in the crypto world over the past few months. Since the end of last year, many institutional figures from...

EventHorizon 2019: 1.000 Teilnehmer aus 55 Ländern trafen sich im Kraftwerk Berlin zum Thema Bitcoin, Blockchain und Energie Wirtschaft. Die USA im Mining-Fieber – neues Zentrum für Krypto-Akteure? Nordamerika, präzise gesagt die USA und Kanada, konnten in den letzten Monaten einen rapide steigenden Anteil an der globalen Hashrate verzeichnen. Die USA steuern einen Anteil von...

Online search giant Google is being criticized for its alleged lack of action against a bitcoin scam that takes on the form of a legitimate published newspaper article. Google Crypto Scams Are Becoming Too Prevalent The scam looks like a piece published by British media platform The Daily Mirror. The piece includes an interview with a person that is alleged to be Britain’s youngest millionaire, who reportedly earned all his money through crypto investments. The headline...

Just yesterday, Live Bitcoin News published an article about Clean Spark and all the growth it was experiencing. Apparently, it is not the only major crypto mining firm undergoing massive changes. Today, news has come out about Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc., which is a competing firm that is now experiencing heavy updates of its own. Marathon Is Headed for the Big Time July has been one of the biggest months for Marathon in quite a while. The company produced more than...

Clean Spark Inc. – a bitcoin mining services and software company – has announced several new updates regarding its processes and operations, as well as general changes to the mining sector. Clean Spark Is Heading for the Top The company’s mining division – known as Clean Blok – boasts more than 7,500 machines at the time of writing. The hash rate capacity with the company stands at more than 740 PH/s, while approximately six bitcoin units are extracted each day. Clean...

At 19 years of age, Nick Sears could be one of the youngest people in the world to be making a career out of bitcoin. Two years ago, Sears built a bitcoin mining farm in Washington, and has made this farm his business ever since. He is looking away from the traditional college route and considering a future in which he devotes himself entirely to the world’s number one digital currency by market cap. Nick Sears Says “Bye” to College, “Hello” to BTC Mining Right now,...

Genesis Digital Assets – one of the world’s largest crypto mining operators – has garnered more than $125 million in new funds. The money came through a funding round led by London-based private equity firm Kingsway Capital. Genesis Digital Assets Garners More than $100 Million in Funds The crypto mining scene has been at the heart of much controversy in recent months. While the space is necessary to ensure more crypto units wind up in circulation, there are many...