Riot lease gives Anthropic a veto on voluntary power cuts
Riot Platforms' Corsicana lease with AI company Anthropic became binding Nov. 4, making voluntary curtailment of the tenant's power load...
Mining
Zcash’s new security fund is 99.7% old money
Zcash’s new reserve for future block rewards is still overwhelmingly inherited value. About 99.7% of its balance in an early...
IREN AI financing plan seeks $6 billion for expansion
Bitcoin miner IREN has moved its AI operating-revenue milestone from December 31, 2026, to January 31, 2027, potentially extending through...
American Bitcoin’s $126M profit masks rising mining costs
American Bitcoin reported a quarterly net income of $126 million on Wednesday, but rising mining costs and falling profits from...
Bitcoin miners’ daily revenue per unit of computing power falls 8.7%
Bitcoin miners face weak dollar revenue even as the mining forward market priced in little additional competition through December, according...
AI wants Bitcoin miners’ power, but the contracts reveal who really gets paid
Bitcoin miners spent years securing cheap electricity, building substations, and negotiating the grid connections needed to power their operations. Now...
Bitcoin mining difficulty hits 148 trillion as revenues fall to three-month lows
Bitcoin's mining difficulty jumped 5.54% on Oct. 29 as recovering network computing power intensified competition among miners already facing shrinking...
Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Miner Moves $203M in Bitcoin
A Satoshi-era Bitcoin whale transferred 2,650 Bitcoin worth about $203 million to FalconX and Cumberland over-the-counter (OTC) trading desks, in...
Bitcoin moves over $5 billion in value but miners collect just $185,000 in transaction fees
Bitcoin's transfer value surged 26% to $5.5 billion last week, even as transaction fees paid to miners declined, according to...
Luxor Raises $16M from CMT Digital Amid AI-Bitcoin Miner Compute Convergence
Full-stack compute company Luxor Technology raised $16 million in a strategic round led by CMT Digital.The investment round also saw...
Bitcoin mining AI: Who approves equipment commands?
Paolo Ardoino's push to bring AI into Bitcoin mining has a human decision at its center: who may authorize a...
Cipher’s $850 million AI bet deepens investor scrutiny as Bitcoin miner’s stock plunges 52%
Cipher Digital shares slumped after the Bitcoin miner issued 40.7 million shares and borrowed $850 million to fund AI expansion.Data...
Binance Pool shuts on November 10, with record access ending two weeks later
Miners connected to Binance Pool need to redirect their equipment before 07:00 UTC on Nov. 10, 2026, when Binance will...
Fortitude sold $8.3 million in borrowed Zcash for expansion
Zcash mining operator Fortitude Mining’s expansion shows how investment in infrastructure can bring existing ZEC to market without requiring the...
Bitcoin difficulty rise could put rigs below power cost
Bitcoin miners face a projected 5.68% difficulty increase around Oct. 16, putting equipment with thin electricity cushions under pressure. If...
Bitcoin Miners Face Rising AI Infrastructure Funding Needs
Bitcoin mining companies expanding into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing face sharply different borrowing costs as lenders scrutinize large-scale data...
Former FTX-backed Bitcoin miner pivots to AI
SWI Group has raised €800 million to expand AI infrastructure, advancing its plan to repurpose FTX-backed Bitcoin miner Genesis Digital...
FTX-Tied Crypto Mining Venture to be Used for AI After Acquisition
Cointelegraph is committed to providing independent, high-quality journalism across the crypto, blockchain, AI, and fintech industries.All news, reviews, and analyses...
Bitcoin mining yield at Luxor depends on delivery
Luxor, a Bitcoin mining derivatives provider, reported a 6–13% annualized Bitcoin financing spread in its September lookback, published Oct. 9....
Bitcoin miners escape months of distress as daily revenue surges by 78%
Bitcoin miners are emerging from months of financial pressure as rising BTC prices lift daily industry revenue by 78%.According to...
3 countries control 66% of Bitcoin mining, but 1 rival is gaining
Bitcoin's estimated US mining footprint shrank as Russia's grew, with little change in top-three country concentration.Hashrate Index's Oct. 5 country...
Hut 8 locks in $1B credit line, but faces 40% liquidity rules
Bitcoin miner Hut 8 announced on Sept. 28 that it had closed a four-year, $1 billion senior secured credit line.The...
