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Finance

Hut 8 Says Repairs to Damaged Crypto Mining Equipment Are Taking Longer Than Expected

The delays are impairing the miner's hashrate and bitcoin production.

A Hut 8 mining facility (hut8.io)

Finance

Cathedra Bitcoin to Deploy Crypto Miners at 360 Mining's Texas Site

Cathedra will pay $55 per megawatt hour of power plus 10% of gross bitcoin mined at the location.

Bitcoin mining rigs at Kryptovault's facility in Hønefoss, Norway. (Image credit: Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Policy

Texas Bill That Would Limit Miners' Participation in Cost-Saving Grid Programs Stopped in House Committee

The legislation would have capped the industry's participation in demand response programs.

Texas flag. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Bitcoin Miners Surface for Air as Sliding Natural Gas Price Provides Cost Relief

Energy producers finally have incentives to work with bitcoin miners.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Hive Earned Equivalent of 184 BTC From Curtailing Its Power Use in December

The miner has also installed the first Buzzminers, computers it designed using Intel's new bitcoin mining chip.

Crypto mining stocks have lost roughly half of their value in the past month. (Sandali Handagama for CoinDesk)

Policy

Iranian Courts Order Return of Thousands of Seized Crypto Mining Machines: Reports

The country has been cracking down on mining to deal with power shortages.

(Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Heatbit Is the First Space Heater That Mines Bitcoin, Founder Says

The newfangled device looks like a high-end space heater but uses integrated circuitry to process bitcoin transactions.

(Lemon_tm / Getty Images)

Finance

Bitcoin Miners Powered Off as Winter Storm Battered North America

Computing power on the Bitcoin network dropped about 40% over the weekend.

(janeb13/Pixabay)

Policy

Bitcoin Miners’ High Hopes for Latin America Dented by Paraguay

The industry’s potential in the region was touted at a conference in Cancun, Mexico, last month, but a crypto mining-friendly bill in Paraguay was shot down last week.

Palacio legislativo de Paraguay. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Policy

Paraguay Votes Down Crypto Regulatory Bill in a Blow to Crypto Mining Industry

The bill would have capped how much the grid operator can charge bitcoin miners for electricity.

Palacio legislativo de Paraguay. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

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