Mining


Finance

Bitcoin Miners’ FTX Contagion Exposure May Amplify Industry Pain

Core Scientific, Bitfarms and Genesis Digital Assets are among miners that have direct and indirect exposures to the fallout.

Obra de IA sobre el colapso. (DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance's Crypto Mining Pool Adds Ravencoin Support

Former Ethereum miners have been drawn to alternative coins like ravencoin after they had to leave the Ethereum network post-merge.

Many Ethereum miners have yet to resettle into mining a different crypto token. (Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Markets

Pre-Halving Rally? Litecoin Surges 43% to 6-Month High

Litecoin's third mining reward halving due in eight months, will cut LTC's pace of supply expansion by 50%.

Litecoin repunta 43% y supera a bitcoin y ether. (70154/Pixabay)

Policy

New York Imposes 2-Year Moratorium on New Proof-of-Work Mining After Gov. Hochul Signs Bill

The new law sets a two-year moratorium on new and renewed air permits for fossil fuel power plants used for energy-intensive proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrency mining.

(Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Mining and Staking Firm Foundry Buys Some of Troubled Bitcoin Miner Compute North's Assets

Foundry will buy two mining facilities and has an option to acquire a third site that is under development.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

Videos

Stronghold Digital CEO on State of Bitcoin Mining Amid FTX Fallout

Stronghold Digital Mining CEO Greg Beard discusses his outlook for the bitcoin mining industry as the collapse of crypto exchange FTX continues to ripple across the digital asset space and BTC sinks below $16,000. "The great unwind is happening now," Beard said.

Recent Videos

Finance

Startup Arkon Energy Raises $28M to Further Expand Into Bitcoin Mining

The Australian company also bought Hydrokraft AS, a renewable energy-based data center in Norway with up to 60MW of power capacity.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Finance

Canaan Q3 Net Income Drops 88% as Bitcoin Mining Declines

Negative market dynamics have caused a reduction in net income, revenue and computing power sold in the third quarter of this year.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Miners' Balance Slides as FTX Collapse Weighs on Crypto

Data tracked by Glassnode shows, the number of bitcoin held by miner wallets has dropped to a 10-month low.

The number of bitcoin held in miner wallets hits a 10-month low. (Glassnode)

Finance

Ex-Ethereum Miners Token Hop to Stay Alive After the Merge

Following the Ethereum Merge, only 20% of miners have switched to other proof-of-work networks.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)