Miners


Finance

Bitcoin Miner Cipher Looks to Sell Up to $250M in Stock

Investment bank H.C. Wainwright will be handling the transaction.

A Cipher mining bitcoin farm. (Cipher Mining)

Finance

Wall Street Bank CEOs Tell Congress They’re Unlikely to Finance Crypto Miners

The chief executives of Citigroup, Bank of America and Wells Fargo were questioned Wednesday at a congressional hearing.

Cartelera del Bank of America. (Getty Images)

Finance

Ethereum Miners Are Quickly Dying Less Than 24 Hours After the Merge

Now-redundant, Ethereum miners are flocking to other proof-of-work tokens after the network switched to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism and finding slim pickings.

Activist investor reported to have been pushing Riot to move into HPC. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Ether, Ethereum Classic See Mini Price Swing After Successful Ethereum Merge

Futures tracking the two tokens racked up nearly $80 million in liquidations since the Merge took place earlier this morning.

Volatilidad. (Matt Hardy, Unsplash)

Tech

Crypto Miner F2Pool Mined the Last-Ever PoW Ether Block Before Merge

The miner used almost 30 million gwei to pay for that transaction.

Photo by Pedro Henrique Santos on Unsplash

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Iris Rises as Compass Point Upgrades on Potential Boost in Hashrate

Compass Point’s analyst upgraded Iris’ stock to a buy recommendation from a neutral.

Racks of crypto mining machines.

Finance

Some Cheap Crypto Mining Stocks Could Be Value Traps, Warns Asset Manager Valkyrie

Valkyrie took a look at which miners are best positioned to survive the extended market downturn.

Rig de minería cripto. (South_agency/Getty Images)

Opinion

How ‘the Merge’ Will Change the Weird World of Ethereum Mempools

Maximal extracted value (MEV) is an expensive problem caused by Ethereum’s trustless architecture. It might even happen after the Merge turns off mining.

(Amir Arabshahi/unplash)

Finance

Institutional Investors Are Increasingly Using Crypto Options Trading to Hedge Their Bets in Bear Market

Options trading volume has risen on crypto exchanges, and even miners are using options strategies to muddle through the current uncertain environment.

Crypto options trading has been rising. (Alistair Berg/Getty Images)

Videos

Chandler Guo on Ethereum Mining: It’s ‘Hard Work’

Ethereum miners will likely face an abrupt change after the network moves to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism from a proof-of-work (PoW) system. Prominent Ethereum miner Chandler Guo shares his insights into the mining business and why it’s “very hard work.”

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