● Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI) estimated Bitcoin mining’s annual power demand to be 120.29 TWh. ● Cloud mining enables users to participate in crypto mining without the need for hardware. The cryptocurrency landscape is constantly evolving, with users adapting to changing trends and market patterns. As participants in
The “hash price” of Bitcoin mining, which is the amount of money miner’s make per terahashes per second, has fallen to levels not seen since the FTX crash of November 2022, despite the fact that the hash rate has hit all-time highs. On August 18, the Bitcoin network’s hash rate
Riot Platforms, a Bitcoin mining company headquartered out of Colorado, cut its quarterly net loss to $27.7 million as it increased Bitcoin output and hit record hash rate capacity. A 27% year-over-year rise in Bitcoin output, although being somewhat offset by a fall in Bitcoin prices, led to the cryptocurrency
In Kyrgyzstan, the crypto mining farm will be built for $20 million, says President Sadyr Japarov with a nod. As per the reports of July 27, the Hydroelectric Power Plant under the government of Kyrgyzstan will be built. Back in 2010, the Kambar-Ata-2 was launched that lost 6.8B KiloWatt-Hours (kWh)
Cryptocurrency mining gear supplier and mining facility operator Phoenix Technology is contemplating an IPO as per a Bloomberg report. The article claims that preliminary discussions have been in place for an IPO for Phoenix in Abu Dhabi. The UAE-based firm signed a $650 million contract for mining rigs in 2021,
After the last difficulty adjustment on July 12, Bitcoin mining achieved an all-time high of 53.91 trillion units. It’s a way to rank the difficulty of mining Bitcoin. Every two weeks, the blockchain adjusts the difficulty to keep the average transaction time at 10 minutes. As the processing power of
One of the prominent Bitcoin mining businesses, Riot Platforms, has spent $162.9M on 33,280 “next-generation” Bitcoin miners for its Texas data center. The purchase of the mining rigs from supplier MicroBT is well ahead of Bitcoin’s next halving cycle, which is expected to occur around the middle of 2024. The
Iris Energy (IREN), a Bitcoin mining company listed on the NASDAQ, stated on Tuesday that it intends to increase its hash rate capacity by 63%, from 5.5 EH/s to 9.1 EH/s by the beginning of 2024. Moreover, Iris is nearing completion of phase 1 of its 600MW plant in Childress,
Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin by market capitalization (USDT), has announced that it took part in the first round of a new billion-dollar renewable energy initiative in El Salvador. Moreover, it is looking to invest $1 billion to build the world’s largest Bitcoin mining farms. Tether Energy
With the aid of its own software, Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) mined 1,245 bitcoin in May, an increase of 77% over the previous month. According to the announcement, the miner has boosted its operating processing power by 9%, to 15.2 exahash/second (EH/S). CEO Fred Thiel stated: “The increased
