Mining

Whit Gibbs, CEO of bitcoin mining firm Compass Mining, shares insights into the launch of the “At-Home” mining program. He also addresses increasing mining difficulty, saying, “we likely will see this continuation of difficulty in hashrate increases for the foreseeable future.”

21. Sept. 2021

Cryptocurrency mining hardware manufacturer Canaan reports record revenues. South Korea’s finance minister says no to crypto tax delay. NFT platform OpenSea admits insider trading. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

16. Sept. 2021

The Week in Review panel for "All About Bitcoin" discusses the potential catalyst for this week's crypto markets flash crash. Plus, taking a look at this past week's stories making waves in the cryptocurrency space: BTC mining difficulty is recovering, node adoption for Taproot has gone over 50%, and the SEC is cracking down on Coinbase.

10. Sept. 2021

Chinese mining rig maker Bitmain will send 56,000 Antminers to the U.S. state of Georgia under a deal with ISW Holdings and Bit5ive. ISW plans its Georgia facility to run at 200 megawatts by October 2022, which will cost $62 million. "The Hash" squad discusses the latest move signaling the great migration of Chinese miners out of China, and what it could reveal about the future of the North American mining landscape.

9. Sept. 2021

South Korea’s crypto regulation damage is assessed. Initium media’s news-based NFT collection sells out. China’s Bitmain seals crypto mining deal with ISW Holdings. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

9. Sept. 2021

Priority transaction network Eden has reportedly raised $17.4 million in a seed funding round led by Multicoin Capital that will help the project fight the menace of miner extractable value (MEV) or the measure of profits miners can make by capriciously reordering transactions within blocks they produce.

8. Sept. 2021

China’s Blockchain-based Service Network to launch portal in South Korea. China’s Canaan secures huge mining rig order from Genesis Digital Assets, and a Korean play-to-earn game explodes in popularity despite a ban in its home country.

1. Sept. 2021

A new chart reveals bitcoin's hashrate could be heading up. Industry watchers expect a continued uptrend spurred by the recent bitcoin price rally, with Chinese miners speeding up their migration to alternate jurisdictions and U.S. miners expanding capacity. CoinDesk's Galen Moore breaks down the Chart of the Day.

27. Aug. 2021

U.K.-based crypto miner Argo Blockchain is calling itself the first publicly-traded cryptocurrency miner to become "climate positive." CEO Peter Wall discusses how his firm has "gone beyond net zero" in carbon emissions and whether renewables-focused mining could push the bitcoin price up further. Plus, his take on the impact of China's crackdowns on mining operations and plans for Argo to go public in the U.S.

25. Aug. 2021

Canadian bitcoin technology company Blockstream is valued at $3.2 billion following a $210 million Series B raise, which will fund an expansion into manufacturing specialized mining chips (ASICs). The firm has also acquired Israeli bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer Spondoolies.

24. Aug. 2021