Mining


Tech

Blockware Solutions Builds 20MW Bitcoin Mining Data Center in Kentucky

The facility has potential to be expanded to 75MW.

Blockware Solution's Kentucky data center. (Blockware Solutions)

Finance

Bitfarms Reports Q4 Revenue Growth of 33% to $60M, Along With Margin Expansion

The miner booked full-year revenue of $169 million, up 383% versus 2021.

(Aoyon Ashraf)

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Crypto Carbon: Can Blockchain Networks Fix Carbon Offsets?

A budding movement within the crypto industry says it can keep carbon out of the atmosphere by locking it on a blockchain. Can it succeed?

(Spencer Watson/Unsplash)

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Is Miner Concentration Once Again Jeopardizing Bitcoin? Not Exactly

The high percentage of hashrate now located in North America may look like China 2.0, but the reality is more complicated.

The bitcoin mining industry is concentrating in the U.S. (Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

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Can Crypto Miners Make the World Greener?

As it decarbonizes, the mining industry might help push energy producers to build more renewable power sources.

Bitcoin mining can soak up renewable energy that is hard to transmit or consume locally, giving a leg up to energy producers. (Yunha)

Policy

White House Wants Public Comments on Crypto’s Energy Use and Environmental Impact

The Office of Science and Technology Policy is crafting a report that will examine where crypto fits into the country’s climate goals.

The White House South Lawn, Washington DC, America (Joe Daniel Price/Getty Images)

Videos

Catalysts for Bitcoin's Recent Price Rally

The "Week in Review" panel analyzes possible drivers for bitcoin's recent price rallies. Sovereign nations and institutional investors like Goldman Sachs and Bridgewater Associates have shown increased interest in digital assets. Plus, highlights from CoinDesk’s Mining Week content.

Recent Videos

Videos

Bitcoin Faces Next Resistance of $46K

CoinDesk Managing Editor for Markets Brad Keoun shares his price outlook for BTC as indicators suggest a short-term bullish run. Plus, Managing Editor for Tech Christie Harkin discusses the future of European crypto regulation as the EU's Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) bill moves forward without the controversial provision that targeted proof-of-work mining. 

Recent Videos

Finance

Greener Bitcoin Mining Could Be China’s ‘Trillion-Dollar Present’ to the US

Can change come fast enough for an ESG-embattled mining industry?

A Bitfury mine in Mo i Rana, Norway. The mine is 90% powered by hydroelectricity and employs five locals. (Bitfury)

Opinion

Exponential Software Requires Exponential Hardware

Web 3 will require the creation of a new structure of hardware, custom-built for the rapidly growing needs of the software.

(Magnus Engø/Unsplash)