Tag Archives: Mine Bitcoin

Texas has become the go-to state for those looking to mine bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Several miners who were shut out of their native China have gone to places like Texas to set up new shops and take advantage of its low energy prices. Texas Has Seen Its Mining Business Expand Heavily While this has been great for the economy in Texas, some are worried about the amount of electricity being used and the pressures this is putting on its grid. Lee Bratcher – president...

The central bank of China has recently issued a report claiming that bitcoin trading in the country has fallen from about 90 percent to ten percent worldwide at the time of writing. China Bitcoin Trading Has Really Fallen Automatically, we feel a huge inclination to shout, “Duh!” at the bank’s representatives. If they are reporting this in surprise, they are on the wrong track. China has worked very hard over the past year to ensure that bitcoin and crypto trading has no...

Residents of a town called North Tonawanda in New York are not too happy about all the noise created by a nearby digital currency mining facility. Located on Erie Avenue, a street used by several neighborhoods, citizens feel that the noise levels are making the area unsafe. Crypto Mining Facility in New York Is Quite Noisy One of the residents complaining about the nose is a woman named Darlene Bolsover. In an interview, she says the mining facility presents a lot of...

Despite heavy calls from environmentalists to end the practice, it doesn’t look like crypto mining is leaving us anytime soon. In fact, it appears that the space is going to get even bigger in the coming years. Crypto Mining Continues to Expand There is a widespread desire for digital assets, and as this desire grows, miners are being asked to place more units into circulation. Thus, crypto mining is still very much in style, and so long as people continue to demand...

Montana environmentalists aren’t happy about a decommissioned coal mine going into business again, this time as a crypto mining facility. Crypto Mining Rubs Climate Friendly People the Wrong Way Known as the Hardin generating station, the facility is a 115-megawatt coal plant located near the site of the historic battle of Little BigHorn. It was slated to close in 2018 given the lack of customers, and usage has seriously died down as of late. However, it looks like a...

ConocoPhillips – one of the biggest producers of oil and gas in the world – is entering the crypto mining space. The company announced early last week that it is heading a bitcoin mining pilot project in what’s known as the Bakken, a region in North Dakota popular amongst new producers of energy in the U.S. ConocoPhillips Has Found a Way to Put Excess Oil to Use A spokesperson for the company explained that ConocoPhillips is not operating the project itself. Rather, it’s...

Brent Whitehead and Matt Lohstroh are two young men from Texas that have already made millions mining bitcoin and other forms of crypto. The two have worked hard to establish a new company called Giga Energy Solutions, which mints bitcoin from natural gas. Brent and Matt Chose to Follow Bitcoin Both Brent and Matt come from oil families, and they were met with skepticism when they first announced three years ago that they wanted to go into the mining sector. However,...

Texas is quickly becoming one of the biggest crypto mining hubs in the world to the point that current governor Greg Abbott is making bringing more crypto jobs and companies to the Lone Star State part of his reelection campaign. Texas and Crypto Mining… A Great Match? The migration of crypto miners to Texas began in the summer of last year. China – which at one point housed more than 65 percent of the world’s digital mining projects – decided the practice should be...

A tax law that was implemented in 2017 as a means of helping poor communities is allegedly being taken advantage of by crypto miners and investors. Crypto Investors Are Using a Tax Law to Their Advantage The law in question allowed certain individuals and companies to either delay or reduce their capital gains taxes when they sell a stock or crypto unit if they take the money they earned and invest it in what are known as opportunity zones, which are neighborhoods that...

New York City mayor Eric Adams is a crypto bull. There’s no denying that. He seems to really take bitcoin to heart. He loves the technology behind it, and he’s so confident in its abilities, he has stated that he wants crypto taught in schools so children are ready and prepared for what will surely be a crypto-dominated financial system in the future. Eric Adams Doesn’t Seem to Understand Where Crypto Comes From All this sounds fine and dandy, but if there is anything...