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...
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...
One of the biggest US Bitcoin miners eyes sale of its entire 53,000 BTC stash
MARA Holdings may be poised to test the current BTC treasury meta. Major miners have been accumulating BTC as a...
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...
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....
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...
Brazil cuts Bitcoin miner import tax 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...
Largest US Bitcoin miner dumps entire BTC stash as margin pressure intensifies
Bitdeer, the largest Bitcoin mining company by hashrate, wiped its BTC ledger clean this week.Its corporate Bitcoin treasury now shows...
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...