Category: Mining

[ad_1] Bitcoin mining giant MARA has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a planned Nov. 4 local election in Hood County, Texas, alleging that county officials unlawfully placed a municipal incorporation measure on the ballot to target its data center operations. This article is from Theminermag, a trade publication for the cryptocurrency mining industry,…

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[ad_1] Bitcoin miners just got hit with a hefty 6.31% bump in difficulty this week, pushing the rating to a hefty 155.97 trillion. Even so, miners kept the hashrate roaring above the 1,100 exahash per second (EH/s) mark, with block times clocking in close to the classic 10-minute rhythm. Bitcoin Miners Face the Squeeze Despite…

[ad_1] Bitcoin’s (BTC) April 2024 halving cut block rewards from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC, compressing the hash price and forcing Bitcoin miners to reconsider their business model. Instead of waiting for fee markets to rescue margins, the largest operators started signing contracts to lease infrastructure to AI tenants. Core Scientific committed 500 megawatts to CoreWeave…

[ad_1] Bitcoin (BTC) miners have raised $11 billion in convertible debt — corporate debt that is convertible to stocks — over the last year, amid a pivot into artificial intelligence data centers. Miners completed 18 convertible bond deals following the April 2024 Bitcoin halving that slashed the block reward by 50%, according to TheMinerMag. The…