Crypto will cede the climate debate to others until it starts a new conversation.
The measure comes as Iran suffers a shortage of hydropower in unusually dry conditions.
The joint venture will see Marathon co-locate a bitcoin mining facility within Beowulf's Big Horn Data Hub at its 105-megawatt power station in Hardin, Montana.
IBM has created a new blockchain consortium with power grid operators TenneT, Swissgrid and Terna to help facilitate the transition to renewable energy.
To the operators of high-speed computers used to mine for bitcoin, the halving looks more like a doubling — of costs.
Russia’s national power grid company Rosseti is testing a system for electricity bill payments based on a distributed ledger by Waves.
Authorities in Sichuan province are reportedly probing into local bitcoin mining farms that may have been constructed without official approval.
A U.S. Department of Energy lab is exploring blockchain technology as a line of defense against cyberattacks on power plants.
Electronics giant Bosch and power supplier Wien Energie have revealed a blockchain fridge aimed to enable better control of electricity consumption.
A man in Taiwan has been arrested over claims he mined $3.25 million in cryptos using stolen electricity.
A team from one of the top universities in China has developed a decentralized exchange, not for crypto assets, but for unused electricity.
Franklin, Washington State, is the latest U.S. county to have suspended new utility applications from crypto mining farms over spiking power demands.
A municipal utility provider in New York got the green light from state regulators to create a new set of electricity rates for cryptocurrency miners.
A county in the U.S. state of Montana has postponed a decision on whether it should temporarily ban new bitcoin mining projects.
Retail giant Walmart is exploring a way to let households manage their electricity bills with prepayments in cryptocurrency.