The founder and CEO of bitcoin miner maker MicroBT is being held by police. A source says it's to assist an investigation over a business dispute.
After sustained growth over the past three months, bitcoin's mining power has dropped with a seasonal falloff in hydropower output in China.
Here's what to make of the milestone.
Metal giant Rusal is renting its facilities to the Russian Mining Corporation following 2018 U.S. sanctions.
A transcript of a Bitmain staff meeting reveals an ugly power struggle inside the world's biggest bitcoin miner maker that led to the abrupt ousting of co-founder Micree Ketuan Zhan.
The bitcoin mining giant is said to have confidentially filed for an IPO in the U.S.
By the end of this year, GPU miners could have a fresh new way to earn crypto – using the idle processing capacity of their chips.
Avalon bitcoin miner maker Canaan Creative has just formally filed for a $400 million US IPO.
The World Economic Forum is building a blockchain-based sustainable sourcing project with 7 metal and mining industry firms on board.
Bitmain's new bitcoin mine exploits cheap electricity in Texas, the nation's biggest power market. Locals are happy for the new jobs.
A vertically integrated startup has raised $30 million to bring bitcoin mining back to the U.S.
Bitcoin halvings normally result in price increases. Maybe not this time.
A new bill from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Energy would triple the price of power for miners, raising fears it could stifle the local mining industry.
CoinDesk On Location goes deep inside a Siberian crypto mining factory situated near a remote hydroelectric plant.
The maker of WhatsMiner bitcoin miners says it expects to have delivered 200,000 devices by the end of the quarter.