ASICs


Tecnología

DMG Purchases 3,600 ASICs in North American Bitcoin Mining Expansion

The Canadian firm is the latest of many North American companies to chase Bitcoin's hashrate with new machine purchases.

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Mercados

ePIC Blockchain Raises $7.5M to Manufacture ASIC Crypto Miners in North America

North America has miners and an abundance of energy but it's lacking one ingredient for a true mining boom: an ASIC manufacturer close to home.

Bringing ASIC manufacturing to North America will reduce supply chain bottlenecks.

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Marathon Patent Mined 196 Bitcoin in Q1, Sees Having 100K+ Miners Online by Early 2022

Marathon’s ASIC spending spree is one of many, and it could signal that bitcoin’s hashrate will hit new highs still this year.

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Tecnología

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits All-Time High as Delayed ASIC Shipments Come Online

The adjustment, spurred forth by fleets of newly booted ASICs, could be a harbinger of even larger difficulty increases in the coming year.

Bitcoin just got harder to mine.

Mercados

Valid Points: Forget Staking, There Are Still Coins to Be Mined on PoW Ethereum

Ethereum miners are making investments to maximize profits before mining becomes obsolete and gets replaced by validating on Ethereum 2.0.

Mining facility

Tecnología

Beyond ASICs: 3 Trends Driving Bitcoin Mining Innovation

The bitcoin mining industry needs to find answers to its environmental and geographical threats, says Canaan's CEO.

Nangeng Zhang, CEO of Canaan Creative

Tecnología

This New Service Plays Matchmaker Between Solo Miners, Big Mining Farms

Compass by HASHR8 matches individual miners with mining farms to host their hardware.

Bitcoin mining equipment

Tecnología

Ethereum’s ProgPoW Debate Is About Much More Than Mining

The debate over ProgPoW has become a flashpoint for how Ethereum makes big decisions.

(Brady Dale/CoinDesk)

Finanzas

Childhood Friends Battle Over Ownership of North America's Largest Bitcoin Mine

Four years ago, two lifelong friends turned a small investment into the largest crypto miner in North America. Now they are warring over the company's future.

Coinmint's bitcoin mine in Massena, New York, pictured in 2020. (Prieur Leary)

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Coronavirus Controls in China Are Delaying Crypto Miner Deliveries, Firms Say

MicroBT and Canaan have notified customers they would be delaying ASIC deliveries due to the Chinese government's quarantine of Wuhan following the coronavirus outbreak.

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