Mining

On October 21, 2019, Chinese bitcoin mining giant Bitmain launched mining headquarters in Rockdale, Texas, in collaboration with the Rockdale Municipal Development District and Canadian blockchain firm DMG Blockchain Solutions. The…

Layer1, a cryptocurrency infrastructure platform, has secured $50 million in series A funding in a bid to revolutionize the bitcoin mining space in the U.S. According to a Layer1 blog post published on October 15, 2019, the funding…

Poolin, just over a year old and already trending as a top two mining pool, is a bit of an anomaly in the mining industry as a China based company with public views on Bitcoin’s development that mirror Bitcoin Core’s. CEO Zhibiao Pan…

Subscription-based bitcoin mining firm Argo Blockchain has registered a profitable third quarter even though the asset it deals in witnessed a sharp drop in value.The UK-based company, whose stocks are listed on the London Stock Exchange…

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. Amid the recent bitcoin price crash, Mao Shixing, founder of F2Pool, currently the world’s largest bitcoin mining pool, published a list of the “shutdown price,”…

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Vincent He. Computing power does not determine the price of cryptocurrency — on the contrary, the price of cryptocurrency affects computing power. Recently, there has been a…

In May, South Korean tech giant Samsung (OTC:SSNLF) filed for a patent titled “Programmable Blockchain Solid State Drive and Switch.” Although details about the recently designed system are scanty, a lot of people in the sector are already…

Iran’s Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade is close to finalizing a document that paves the way for legitimizing cryptocurrency mining for local and foreign citizens in the foreseeable future. In early August 2019, Iranian President Hassan…

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain launched two new Antminer 17 miners to the eager market on September 9, 2019. A day before the announcement, data from statistics and…

With a cool climate and endless supplies of renewable hydropower left over from a time when forestry, pulp and paper, and traditional mining drove the economy, Québec, Canada, has the potential to be a thriving bitcoin mining hub. Québec’s…