Mining

Over the years, blockchain forensic analysis has traced roughly 1.1 million bitcoin, currently worth nearly $73 billion, to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, with the entire cache sitting untouched since 2010. What the…
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This week, Bitcoin’s difficulty epoch at block height 953568 delivered the year’s second-steepest downward adjustment to date. Following this weekend’s recalibration and looking ahead to the next two weeks, the latest difficulty reading of…
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With bitcoin prices sliding to levels not witnessed since February, the network’s hashrate has undergone a steep contraction, with 145 exahash per second (EH/s) exiting the system since the close of May. Hashprice Falls 27% in 30 Days as…
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Solo bitcoin miners running desktop-sized hardware are still finding full blocks in 2026, and the data from several active solo mining pools makes clear this is no longer a fluke. A Recent Solo Win Puts the Spotlight Back on Home Mining A…
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A federal judge dismissed Swan Bitcoin’s entire lawsuit against Proton Management Ltd. and its employees on June 1, 2026, after Swan admitted in parallel UK proceedings that it never owned the mining assets and trade secrets at the center…
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The Bitcoin network received a fresh difficulty bump this week at block height 951552, with the protocol dialing things up by 1.72%. Meanwhile, the network’s hashrate kept flexing its muscles, climbing past the 1,000 exahash per second…
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After approaching $40 per petahash per second (PH/s) in hashprice terms, bitcoin’s latest price decline triggered a pullback in hashprice, reducing mining profitability since May 14. Conditions tightened further the next day when the…
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Publicly-listed bitcoin miners took a beating on Friday, May 15, 2026, with every major traded mining stock dropping between 2.52% and 9.59% in a single session, even as their year-to-date gains outpaced bitcoin’s own performance by a wide…
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro stressed that the future of bitcoin mining must be ecological, as countries with abundant green energy, including Paraguay and Venezuela, are attracting investments in the sector. He also warned about the…
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Seven of the largest names in bitcoin mining formally joined the Stratum V2 Working Group this week, signaling the clearest industry shift yet toward miner-controlled transaction selection. 7 Bitcoin Mining Pools Back Stratum V2 as Miners…
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