The Venezuelan agency responsible for regulating cryptos has legalized the mining industry, but in the process mandated it be centralized under government control.
Bitfarms boost its mining power by 360 PH with the new lease, set to run for 24 months.
Three Iranian power plants with enough output to supply half of New York City will begin selling some surplus power to crypto miners.
Miners may be the real winners from DeFi as a surge in Ethereum activity sees them earn a record $16 million in a day.
A former contractor for Australian science agency CSIRO was found to have mined around $7,000 in cryptocurrency.
An Iranian free trade zone is proposing locally mined cryptocurrency might be a way to fund car imports.
Argo Blockchain has reported a near quadrupling in revenue even as capital depreciation led pre-tax profits to slide by 45%.
Russia's Ministry of Finance wants to ban any cryptocurrency payments, which could be bad news for the country's mining farms.
Russian wants all data centers, including mining farms, to report what they do and how they operate. Local experts say that brings risk.
Blockchain investment firm Digital Currency Group has branched into the bitcoin mining industry though a subsidiary called Foundry.
The 180-megawatt facility that will be able to host 50,000 bitcoin mining rigs is set to launch sometime in early September.
Investors suing Nvidia have opposed a motion from the U.S. chipmaker that would shut out the testimony from an ex-employee.
The $23 million purchase will see Marathon's bitcoin mining capacity increase drastically, turning it into one of the largest miners in North America.
The surge in profitability comes after rises in transaction fees and prices of the ether cryptocurrency.
Privacy coin zcash has successfully hard forked at block height 903,000 in a planned network update known as “Heartwood.”