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Finance

Bitcoin Miner TeraWulf Reports 146% Increase in Revenue as It Ramps Up Operations

The company reiterated its 5.5 EH/s computing power target for the second quarter of this year.

Bitcoin mining rigs (Image credit: Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Stronghold Raises Year-End Hashrate Guidance to 4 EH/s

Fourth-quarter revenue of $23.4 million was driven mainly by selling energy to the power grid rather than crypto mining.

Stronghold Digital Mining CEO Greg Beard (right) and Co-Chairman Bill Spence (left).  (Stronghold Digital Mining)

Videos

Greenpeace Partners With Activist Artist To Highlight Bitcoin’s Climate Impact

Environmental organization Greenpeace International commissioned an art piece called the "Skull of Satoshi" designed to expose the Bitcoin network's climate impact, but Bitcoiners want to adopt it as a mascot. "The Hash" panel discusses the artwork and the potential fallacies of the bitcoin energy debate. 

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Finance

Immersion Cooling Firm LiquidStack Secures Series B Funding to Build Manufacturing in U.S.

The company says it can reduce the carbon footprint and land and water use of bitcoin miners through its technology.

Bitcoin miners at work (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

Core Scientific Bankruptcy Judge Approves Transfer of Over $20M of Equipment to Its Exclusive Energy Negotiator

Core Scientific had stopped paying Priority Power Management in May 2022.

Core Scientific's Marble facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Finance

Canadian Crypto Miner Pow.re Lands 100 MW Contract in Paraguay

The site is built in the Yguazu region, near the giant Itaipu dam.

The Itaipu dam (Jonas de Carvalho/Flickr)

Policy

U.S. Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill to Force Crypto Miners to Disclose Emissions

The bill also requires the EPA to study the effect crypto mining has on the environment.

Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) is cosponsoring a bill to mandate that crypto miners disclose their greenhouse gas emissions. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for We The 45 Million)

Policy

Montana Senate Passes Bill Protecting Crypto Miners

The legislation will likely upend a Missoula county zoning law that was one of the first in the U.S. to target the mining industry.

A Cipher mining bitcoin farm. (Cipher Mining)

Finance

Bitcoin Miners Surface for Air as Sliding Natural Gas Price Provides Cost Relief

Energy producers finally have incentives to work with bitcoin miners.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)