A developer hid an image inside one Bitcoin transaction — and it bypassed every major filter
A Bitcoin developer embedded a 66-kilobyte image inside a single transaction without using OP_RETURN or Taproot.The transaction followed consensus rules....
Mining
Can you still mine Bitcoin on a PC in 2026? Here is the reality
Mining Bitcoin on a desktop in 2026 may sound simple, but is it profitable? Do rising network difficulty and energy...
Startup Starcloud Plans First Bitcoin Mining Satellite in Low-Earth Orbit
A Washington startup says the next frontier for computing—and possibly bitcoin mining—may orbit hundreds of miles above Earth. Bitcoin Mining...
Seven internet cables were cut at once — Bitcoin barely noticed, but researchers found a real chokepoint
When seabed disturbances off Côte d'Ivoire severed seven submarine cables in March 2024, the regional internet impact earned an IODA...
Paraguay to Leverage Seized ASICs to Mine Bitcoin
ANDE, the state power company, has partnered with Morphware, an artificial intelligence (AI) and mining tech company, to start a...
Bitcoin miners’ AI pivot draws billion-dollar Wall Street bets
Wall Street is pouring billions into public Bitcoin mining companies, but the investment thesis has little to do with the...
Morgan Stanley Backs Core Scientific With up to $1B Financing for Data Center Growth
Core Scientific has secured a major financing arrangement with Morgan Stanley that could provide up to $1 billion to support...
Second top US Bitcoin miner authorizes sale of entire BTC stash as MARA eyes $3.8 billion liquidity option
MARA Holdings may be poised to test the current BTC treasury meta. Major miners have been accumulating BTC as a...
Riot Reports Record $647M Revenue in 2025, Holds $1.6B in Bitcoin
Riot Platforms posted record annual revenue of $647.4 million for 2025, up 72% from $376.7 million a year earlier.In a...
Bitcoin Miners Power Back Above 1 Zettahash — But Profits Hover Near Historic Lows
Bitcoin miners are back to business as usual after last month’s Arctic blast iced operations across the U.S., and the...
Bitcoin’s 15% difficulty spike allows one on-chain metric to flip miners from sellers to hoarders in days
Bitcoin difficulty just reset about 15% higher to roughly 144.40T.While this is neither the first nor the last, it is...
MARA Revenue Dips 6% in Q4 as Production Slows and Asset Values Tumble
Marathon Holdings’ Q4 2025 revenue declined 6% to $202.3 million, primarily due to a 14% drop in the average price...
Bitcoin mining companies sell $348M BTC as power costs grow
Public Bitcoin miners collectively held 115,335 BTC as of Feb. 20, worth roughly $7.4 billion at the recent price, but...
Solo Bitcoin Miner Hits Rare 3.125 BTC Jackpot With Rented Hashrate
A solo Bitcoin miner notched a rare win by validating an entire Bitcoin block, securing a huge payday using a...
Engie Eyes Bitcoin Mining to Address Solar‑Power Curtailment in Brazil
The energy conglomerate is considering adding local power demand, in the form of bitcoin mining or storage systems, for its...
Brazil cuts Bitcoin miner import duty to zero and companies may plug them into stranded solar next
On Feb. 20, Brazil's foreign trade council published a technical resolution reducing import duties to zero for a narrow class...
Bitcoin Miner Bitdeer Liquidates Entire BTC Treasury, Holdings Fall to Zero
Update (Feb. 23, 12:13 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a statement from Bitdeer’s Ross Gann.Bitcoin mining...
Bitcoin Miner Soluna Expands Behind-the-Meter Capacity in Texas via Blockware Pact
Soluna Holdings is deepening its ties with Blockware, adding 6 megawatts (MW) of capacity at Project Dorothy 1 in West...
How Bitcoin miners’ woes might set stage for BTC price rebound
Bitcoin just got ~15% harder to mine as hashrate falls—pushing miner revenue back into the $30 stress zoneBitcoin’s mining economy...
Bitcoin Difficulty Whipsaws From 11% Slide to 14.73% Climb in 2 Weeks
Following the prior difficulty recalibration that occurred 2,016 blocks ago—roughly two weeks back on Feb. 7—the Bitcoin protocol has now...
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...
Riot Platform‘s AI/HPC Push could Net up to $21B, Says Stockholder
An activist Riot Platform shareholder is pressing the crypto mining company to accelerate its pivot to high-performance computing (HPC) and...
