Mining


Finance

Gryphon Mining 'Able to Take Advantage of Opportunities' in Sector

The miner produced 71 bitcoin in June, up from 62 in May.

Racks of crypto mining machines.

Finance

Crypto Mining Stocks Bounce Amid Bitcoin Recovery

Investors are likely feeling comfortable as the price of the largest cryptocurrency has stabilized over the past few days.

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

Finance

Argo Blockchain Hires Derivatives Trader to Navigate Market Rout, Sells BTC to Reduce Loan

The miner saw gains in bitcoin production in June, but its profit margin narrowed.

Argo Blockchain's Helios facility in Dickens County, Texas. (Argo Blockchain)

Finance

Riot Blockchain Starts Move Away From New York Hosting Site

The crypto miner continued to sell its bitcoin, along with peers feeling the squeeze of the bear market.

A close-up of one of Riot's mining rigs. (Riot Blockchain)

Finance

Hut 8 Has Added 5,800 Mining Rigs at Its Ontario Site

The company said it will hold all the bitcoin it mines, as other crypto miners sell their coins.

A Hut 8 mining site (Hut 8)

Layer 2

Are Block Builders the Key to Solving Ethereum’s MEV Centralization Woes?

Proposer-builder separation is one way Ethereum is implementing modular decentralization.

(Serede Jami/EyeEm/Getty Images)

Tech

Bitmain to Start Selling New Ethereum Mining Rig Model Wednesday

Despite the Merge edging closer, Bitmain is releasing an Ethereum ASIC.

A Bitmain Antminer s9 board in a bitcoin mine in Norway. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Markets

Coinbase Says Miners’ Sales of Newly Minted Bitcoins Don’t Add Significant Market Pressure

If all newly issued bitcoin were immediately sold on the market each day, it would equate to only 900 BTC of selling pressure, the report said.

Un empleado de Bitfarms supervisa hardware de minería de bitcoin. (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk)

Finance

Hard Times in Crypto: the Unintended Consequences of Going Public

The third and final reflection on a series of risks we’re thinking about during these crypto down days.

(Aditya Vyas/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Miners Face Margin Calls, Defaults as Debt Comes Due in Bear Market

Private and publicly listed crypto miners owe up to $4 billion in debt used to finance the construction of gargantuan facilities across North America, according to industry participants and data compiled by CoinDesk.

Crypto miners face margin calls, defaults as debt comes due in bear market. (Andrew Khoroshavin/Pixabay)