Mining
How cutting power to Bitcoin miners can actually burn more energy
A share-triggered controller can leave slowed machines hashing through a finite window with few or no accepted shares.
Liam 'Akiba' Wright 3 min read
Mining News
Track Bitcoin mining news, hash rate, public miners, energy policy, hardware trends, and network economics.
Coverage footprint 3.9%
News sentiment 17 /100
Top Mining Stories
Mining
Bitcoin’s $84K rally isn’t saving miners as difficulty signals already flash caution
BTC at $84,751 improved theoretical gross hashprice by 2.65%, yet the next retarget estimate remains provisional and lower.
Mining
Bitcoin miners have amassed $100 billion of AI deals, but almost none of the revenue exists yet
Wall Street is still rewarding the pivot as scarce power access, data-center restrictions and surging AI demand push miners away from Bitcoin.
Latest Mining News & Analysis
Mining
Bitcoin needs to reach $82,900 to outrun a looming miner margin squeeze
A projected 4.70% difficulty increase could cut hashprice 4.49% and push older machines below power-only breakeven.
AI
HIVE is making $1M a day, and almost all of it comes from Bitcoin mining not AI
HIVE's preliminary figures for Aug. 21 through Sept. 10 show GPU-cloud revenue at about $100,000 a day, while Swedish reuse remains under evaluation.
Earnings
Bitcoin miner manufacturer Canaan sells crypto to buy back shares after $97 million loss
Revenue fell below its $35 million guidance floor, while later crypto sales funded part of its share buybacks.
Mining
Nearly a fifth of all Bitcoin mining power is sitting completely dark, and turning it back on could trigger a brutal margin trap
Bitcoin’s hashrate is rebounding from 850 EH/s as improving miner economics bring sidelined capacity back online.
Mining
Bitcoin miner burns through millions in BTC to buy compute, but new coins are not returning to treasury
Cloud customers accounted for about 74% of August’s production increase, while company holdings recovered only part of July’s decline.
AI
Bitcoin’s recovery signals are flashing, but AI is stealing the hashrate rebound
Hashrate remains below its peak after 316 days as miners weigh improving BTC economics against long-duration compute revenue.
More Mining News Headlines
AI
AI data centers are learning the power trick Bitcoin miners mastered first
Featured
Why Bitcoin’s $2B corporate treasuries are a ticking time bomb of hidden conditional supply
Debt
One mid-tier Bitcoin treasury just gambled its entire BTC reserve on a single 30-day reset price
Mining
