Mining


Finance

Intel Doubles Down on ESG With Launch of Second-Gen Bitcoin Mining Chips

The “Intel Blockscale ASIC” chip boasts efficiency up to 26 J/TH, which would make it better than most Bitmain and MicroBT models now on the market.

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Finance

CleanSpark Aims to Be Among Top Bitcoin Miners With Up to 500MW Expansion

The deal with Houston-based Lancium will give CleanSpark a mining hashrate of 10.4 EH/s by spring 2023.

Solar panels on a CleanSpark client's roof. (Danielle Nazareno/CleanSpark)

Finance

Stronghold Digital's Stock Tanks as Q4 Results Miss Estimates

The bitcoin miner said it no longer believes its original target of 8.0 exahash per second in computing power by the end of 2022 is achievable.

Stronghold Digital Mining Raises $105M to Turn Waste Coal Into Bitcoin

Tech

Bitcoiners Scoff at Chris Larsen's $5M Campaign to Force a BTC Code Change

The Ripple executive and allies at Greenpeace assume that all it takes for a fundamental change to bitcoin's code is getting 50 firms and core developers on board.

Ripple Executive Chairman Chris Larsen (Ripple)

Tech

Blockware Solutions Builds 20MW Bitcoin Mining Data Center in Kentucky

The facility has potential to be expanded to 75MW.

Blockware Solution's Kentucky data center. (Blockware Solutions)

Finance

Bitfarms Reports Q4 Revenue Growth of 33% to $60M, Along With Margin Expansion

The miner booked full-year revenue of $169 million, up 383% versus 2021.

(Aoyon Ashraf)

Layer 2

Crypto Carbon: Can Blockchain Networks Fix Carbon Offsets?

A budding movement within the crypto industry says it can keep carbon out of the atmosphere by locking it on a blockchain. Can it succeed?

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Layer 2

Is Miner Concentration Once Again Jeopardizing Bitcoin? Not Exactly

The high percentage of hashrate now located in North America may look like China 2.0, but the reality is more complicated.

The bitcoin mining industry is concentrating in the U.S. (Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

Layer 2

Can Crypto Miners Make the World Greener?

As it decarbonizes, the mining industry might help push energy producers to build more renewable power sources.

Bitcoin mining can soak up renewable energy that is hard to transmit or consume locally, giving a leg up to energy producers. (Yunha)

Policy

White House Wants Public Comments on Crypto’s Energy Use and Environmental Impact

The Office of Science and Technology Policy is crafting a report that will examine where crypto fits into the country’s climate goals.

The White House South Lawn, Washington DC, America (Joe Daniel Price/Getty Images)