Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops by 11% Amid Steep Market Downturn
Update (2-7-2026) This article has been updated to provide the latest projections for the next Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustmentThe Bitcoin...
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Analysts: Venezuela’s Oil Industry Resurgence May Precede a Flared-Gas Bitcoin Mining Boom
Several local mining experts agree that there is sufficient gas in the country to establish a mobile fleet of bitcoin...
Bitcoin miners caught between plummeting prices and AI allure
The euphoria of October’s record highs has evaporated, leaving the industrial backbone of the Bitcoin network facing a brutal reality...
Publicly Traded Miners Buck the Tape as Bitcoin’s Price Wobbles
Bitcoin briefly slid to $72,863 on Bitstamp on Tuesday, but publicly traded mining stocks managed to post mixed-to-positive daily performances...
Bitcoin mining profit crisis hits as difficulty to drop by 14% this weekend while block time spikes to 20 minutes
While price action has always been volatile and, arguably, exciting, the Bitcoin network itself is built to feel boring. Ten...
Bhutan Partners With Cumberland to Explore Digital Asset Infrastructure
Bhutan signed a multi-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with crypto market maker Cumberland DRW to collaborate on building digital asset...
The Acceleration of AI/HPC Integration
HPC/AI exposure drove miner valuations in 2025. The next phase will separate execution from narratives, and that’s where re-ratings will...
Bitcoin hashrate slumps as US miners curtail during winter storm
Earlier this week, a sweeping US winter storm pushed Bitcoin miners to curtail, pulling a noticeable chunk of computing power...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Sees Last Adjustment Increase in 2025
The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the relative computing challenge of adding a new block to the ledger, increased slightly...
Miner Weekly: AI Inherits Bitcoin Mining’s Hard Lesson – Locals Matter
For much of the past decade, bitcoin miners expanding across the United States learned that access to cheap power and...
Massive Bitcoin Difficulty Cut Looms After Hashrate Loses Nearly 250 EH/s
As an Arctic storm front batters multiple U.S. states, bitcoin mining activity across the country has pulled back sharply, with...
Brutal storm weakens Bitcoin security as major mining pool drops 30% of its hashing power
One thing we rarely think about is how bad weather can affect Bitcoin's security, but it happens fairly regularly. Snow...
Deadly Winter Storm in US Impacts Foundry USA and Other Mining Pools
The Bitcoin mining hashrate secured by Foundry USA’s mining pool fell by roughly 60% since Friday as miners across the...
Report: Arctic Storm Front Disrupts US Bitcoin Mining, Block Times Stretch Past 12 Minutes
On Sunday morning around 10 a.m., theminermag.com—a platform tracking bitcoin mining news, data, research, and analysis—reported that Foundry USA has...
How United States could make Greenland the largest Bitcoin mining operation on earth
Talk of the United States buying Greenland has returned to Washington, and miners are tracking the power projects on the...
Nasdaq Tells Canaan to Boost Share Price or Face Delisting
Crypto mining hardware maker Canaan Inc., which has seen its shares down 63% in the last 12 months, has received...
Bitcoin Difficulty Slides to September 2025 Levels as Miner Margins Stay Squeezed
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty eased on Thursday, sliding 3.28% from 146.47 trillion to 141.67 trillion—a level not seen since September 2025,...
Bitcoin’s hashrate continues to fall as the price spike doesn’t convince miners to turn machines back on
Bitcoin miners entered early 2026 in a familiar but increasingly unforgiving setup: network hashrate is slipping from late-2025 highs, difficulty...
How Bitcoin Mining Waste Heat Is Being Used to Warm Canadian Greenhouses
Key takeawaysBitcoin mining produces large amounts of heat that are typically treated as waste. In cold regions, this thermal output...
11 EH/s: Bitmain Eyes a New Bitcoin Mining Proxy? – Miner Weekly
While most attention in recent months has focused on publicly traded miners racing to add hashrate or pivot toward AI,...
Bitcoin difficulty just retreated, but a more critical “survival metric” signals the mining sector is bleeding out
Bitcoin’s first difficulty adjustment of 2026 was anything but dramatic. The network nudged the dial down to about 146.4 trillion,...
Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark Continues Expansion into AI, HPC with Acquisition
CleanSpark’s move into AI and high-performance computing reflects a broader shift among Bitcoin miners facing rising difficulty and costs.Bitcoin mining...
