How Bitcoin just proved it could survive a quantum attack
Bitcoin has confirmed a quantum-resistant transaction on mainnet using its existing consensus rules, showing that some holders could migrate funds...
Mining
Cypherpunk Expands Zcash Bet With $33M Mining Deal
Cypherpunk Technologies is expanding its footprint in the Zcash ecosystem, launching what it says is the world’s largest Zcash mining...
Bitdeer Cranks up Bitcoin Mining Power While Rivals Stampede Into AI
Key TakeawaysBitdeer deploys 28 MW and 1.93 EH/s at Soluna’s Kati 1 beginning in September 2026.Soluna keeps 83 MW Kati...
Riot Platforms locked in a $9.1 billion Anthropic deal, but its bridge loan expires before the rent starts
Riot Platforms has secured up to $573 million of interim financing for the $9.1 billion data-center lease tied to Anthropic,...
Treasury ‘Not-QE’ Fuels Bitcoin Rally
Bitcoin and the broader digital asset market got a taste of “not-QE” this week — and liked it.The price of...
EU Carbon Taxes Push Bitcoin Mining to Russia, Study Claims
Key TakeawaysA study shows strict EU carbon could be driving bitcoin miners to shift operations to Russia.Companies maximize profit by...
A $22.9 million capital deficit threatens to derail an energy firm’s pivot to off-grid Bitcoin mining
Olenox Industries is an energy company that acquired Bitcoin miner CS Digital Ventures in May. It reported preliminary July production...
Bitdeer signs $400M AI cloud computing deal for Malaysia facility
Bitdeer expects revenue from the five-year agreement to begin in early 2027 as it builds toward 350 megawatts of AI...
Riot Platforms Sold 9,665 Bitcoin in H1 2026 to Fund AI Pivot
Key TakeawaysRiot Platforms sold 4,300 BTC in Q2 2026, cutting its treasury to 11,380 BTC by H1 end.Riot’s 191 megawatt...
Canaan counted paused Ethiopia mining as nearly 35% of its July operating hashrate total
Canaan's July mining update counted 4.96 exahashes per second from paused operations in Ethiopia inside 14.24 EH/s of global operating...
Anthropic Strikes $9B Compute Deal with Bitcoin Miner Riot: Report
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Public Miners Shed 21% of Bitcoin Hashrate as AI Revenue Accelerates
This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by Blocks Bridge Consulting, curating the latest news in energy,...
Bitcoin made KULR’s real battery business harder to value
KULR Technology Group has exited Bitcoin mining, repaid its Coinbase debt, and begun selling its BTC holdings as the battery...
Keel shuts US Bitcoin mining operations as Q2 revenue falls 50%
Keel completed the shutdown of its US Bitcoin mining operations as it pivots toward AI and high-performance computing infrastructure Source...
OCEAN Pledges BTC Refunds After Chain-Split Error
Key TakeawaysOCEAN misrouted miners to the BIP-110 chain for 18 hours due to a Stratum configuration flaw.Developer Peter Todd slammed...
Bitcoin miner HIVE’s $79M quarter runs into an $80M Swedish tax problem
Bitcoin miner HIVE Digital Technologies missed the Aug. 10 deadline for its quarter-ended-June 30 Form 10-Q even as preliminary revenue...
Keel Shuts All Bitcoin Mining With $819M Ready for AI Pivot
Key TakeawaysKeel shut all U.S. bitcoin mining as Q2 revenue fell 50% to $30.4M during its AI pivot.Keel sold 1,085...
Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fork is back, but its backers want to replace the miners and change PoW
Bitcoin’s BIP-110 push failed to gain meaningful mining support over the weekend, leaving the proposal stranded on a minority chain...
CleanSpark misses Wall Street revenue estimates as shares sink
CleanSpark’s shares fell 5.5% on Thursday after the Bitcoin miner reported $138 million in quarterly revenue, narrowly missing Wall Street’s...
MARA Reports $611M Loss While Miners Deposit 581 BTC to NYDIG
Key TakeawaysMARA’s Q2 revenue fell 27% to $174.9 million, missing Wall Street estimates by more than 16%.Riot Platforms and MARA...
Bitcoin has 185 blocks left before BIP-110 rules begin rejecting blocks
Bitcoin nears the deadline for BIP-110, a proposed temporary soft fork that would shrink block data. Once the current signaling...
Kazakhstan Approves Strategic Crypto Mining Framework
Kazakhstan, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin mining hubs, approved a new framework for large-scale crypto mining that links access...
