Mining


Finance

Marathon Digital Solidifies Position as World's Largest Publicly Traded Bitcoin Miner

Marathon continues to pull away from the former leader, Core Scientific.

Fred Thiel at Bitcoin 2023. (Frederick Munawa)

Consensus Magazine

Want to Mine Bitcoin at Home? DIY Bitcoiners Have Stories to Share

From an ASIC-heated swimming pool to a handmade soundproof container, these die-hards found ways to make home mining feasible, if not quite profitable.

Gerald Glickman's "immersion-cooled bitcoin miner/pool heater" (YouTube)

Consensus Magazine

Bitcoin Mining Computing Power May Drop as Much as 30% After Halving: Experts

Machine efficiency and low cost of power are key to surviving the bitcoin halving, industry figures tell CoinDesk.

New and old bitcoin mining rigs at CleanSpark's site in Georgia.

Opinion

Bitcoin Mining Has a Superpower

The blockchain's energy needs are flexible, location agnostic and responsive to grid changes, Texas Blockchain Council President Lee Bratcher writes.

superpower stance, sunset

Opinion

The Single Most Important Truth About Bitcoin Mining, Energy and the Environment

Proof-of-work mining will help to decarbonize the grid and lower the cost of energy production, Reed College professor and Bitcoin Policy Institute fellow Troy Cross writes.

(Benjamin Von Wong)

Consensus Magazine

Ghost From the Well: Is Crypto Mining With Associated Gas Better for the Environment?

Oil and gas companies are keen to use gas that would normally be flared off to run bitcoin mining operations. But environmentalists claim the practice merely perpetuates the use of fossil fuels.

Gas flaring / Getty Images

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Expands Operations in Paraguay After Securing 2 Hydropower Contracts

The company will be able to add up to 150 megawatts of energy capacity through the two agreements.

Bitcoin miners at work (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Miner Argo Blockchain Raises $7.5M in Share Sale; Stock Slumps

Proceeds from the private placing and public sale will be used to pay down debt.

Riot Platforms’ acquisition of Block Mining makes sense, JPMorgan says. (Sandali Handagama)

Finance

Applied Digital Stock Surges 12% After Announcing Its Third AI Deal

Applied Digital will be deploying HPE's Cray XD supercomputers in its AI cloud service.

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2023/06/hewlett-packard-enterprise-unveils-ai-cloud-for-large-language-models.html