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New and old bitcoin mining rigs at CleanSpark's site in Georgia. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)
Largest Crypto Miners Will Benefit Most From Capacity Growth: Bernstein
Larger miners with a low cost of production and low debt are likely to be the big beneficiaries of increased capacity, the report said.
New and old bitcoin mining rigs at CleanSpark's site in Georgia. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

New and old bitcoin mining rigs at CleanSpark's site in Georgia. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Mining Computing Power May Drop as Much as 30% After Halving: Experts
Machine efficiency and low cost of power are key to surviving the bitcoin halving, industry figures tell CoinDesk.
New and old bitcoin mining rigs at CleanSpark's site in Georgia. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

What Bitcoin's 2024 Halving Means for Miners
What Bitcoin's 2024 Halving Means for Miners
The reward for successfully mining a bitcoin block is cut in half roughly every four years and the bitcoin mining hashrate a measure of computing power on the network will likely decline dramatically a year from now once rewards are halved The Hash panel shares insights on how miners can survive the upcoming halving in [...]
What Bitcoin's 2024 Halving Means for Miners

Cleanspark Buys Nearly $145M of Bitcoin Mining Rigs to Double Its Hashrate
Cleanspark Buys Nearly $145M of Bitcoin Mining Rigs to Double Its Hashrate
Crypto miner Clean Spark CLSK said in a press release that the firm has bought 45 000 new Bitmain Antminer S 19 X Ps for 144 9 million which will almost double its current computing power or hashrate once installed Plus insights on the latest article from The New York Times that examines the environmental [...]
Cleanspark Buys Nearly $145M of Bitcoin Mining Rigs to Double Its Hashrate

TeraWulf Starts Nuclear-Powered Bitcoin Mining With Nearly 8,000 Rigs at Nautilus Facility
TeraWulf Starts Nuclear-Powered Bitcoin Mining With Nearly 8,000 Rigs at Nautilus Facility
Tera Wulf has begun operations at its Nautilus Cryptomine facility the first nuclear powered bitcoin mining facility in the U S with nearly 8 000 mining rigs online representing computing power or hashrate of about 1 0 exahash per seond EH s Tera Wulf Chief Strategy Officer Kerri Langlais shares insights into the company's plans [...]
TeraWulf Starts Nuclear-Powered Bitcoin Mining With Nearly 8,000 Rigs at Nautilus Facility

Sam Bankman-Fried's Bond Co-Signers Revealed; Bitcoin Hashrate Hits 300 EH/s Mark
Sam Bankman-Fried's Bond Co-Signers Revealed; Bitcoin Hashrate Hits 300 EH/s Mark
Stanford University's Andreas Paepcke and Larry Kramer were revealed to be former FTX CEO Sam Bankman Fried's bond co signers Bankman Fried's parents are both Stanford instructors Paepcke is a senior research scientist while Kramer is a former dean of Stanford Law School Separately computing power on the bitcoin network or hashrate reached 300 65 [...]
Sam Bankman-Fried's Bond Co-Signers Revealed; Bitcoin Hashrate Hits 300 EH/s Mark

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Bitcoin Hashrate Hits 300 EH/s Mark as Industry Gets Some Breathing Room
It took only about a year for the bitcoin mining hashrate to gain the last 100 EH/s.
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How Bitcoin Mining Got 'Even More Competitive' In 2022: Analyst
How Bitcoin Mining Got 'Even More Competitive' In 2022: Analyst
In CoinDesk Research's Annual 2022 Review report, Research Associate George Kaloudis sheds light on how the decline in BTC price and the rise in Bitcoin hashrate impacted the mining space.
How Bitcoin Mining Got 'Even More Competitive' In 2022: Analyst

Crypto mining rigs (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Mining: A Positive or Negative Indicator for the Future of Crypto?
The sector was hit with a wave of lawsuits, resignations and bankruptcies in 2022, and yet the Bitcoin network’s high hashrate remains a sign of faith.
Crypto mining rigs (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Bitcoin's Computing Power Recovers After Falling Roughly 40%
Bitcoin's Computing Power Recovers After Falling Roughly 40%
The bitcoin mining hashrate a measure of computing power on the blockchain dropped about 100 exahash per second EH s or 40 to 156 EH s between Dec 21 and Dec 24 as a powerful storm swept across North America It returned to about 250 EH s as of Sunday Christine Lee presents The Chart [...]
Bitcoin's Computing Power Recovers After Falling Roughly 40%