Mining


Markets

Drop in Bitcoin Mining Difficulty 'Comparable to FTX Collapse,' CryptoQuant Says

Miners’ profitability has been hit as the daily revenues fell from $78 million pre-halving to $26 million currently, one market analyst noted.

Bitcoin sculpture made from scrap metal outside the BitCluster mining farm in Norilsk, Russia. (BitCluster)

Markets

As Bitcoin Bellyflops to $54K Only Five Mining Rigs Remain Profitable, Says F2Pool

Miners need to continually sell bitcoin rewards to keep operations afloat, and they are stressed during a market downturn.

ASIC Miners (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Mined $15M Worth Kaspa Tokens to Diversify Revenue

The miner has mined 93 million of KAS tokens since Sept. 2023.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Finance

Hut 8 Receives $150M Investment as Thirst for Energy Brings AI Firms to Bitcoin Miners

The funding came from Coatue Management, which is also an investor in CoreWeave, a cloud-computing firm looking to take over miner Core Scientific.

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