Bitcoin Bitcoin mining company Riot Platforms (RIOT), valued at $109,156.97, said it has sold 1.75 million shares of rival Bitfarms (BITF) for about $1.58 million as part of an ongoing review of its investment in the company following a failed…
Could Marathon Digital Holdings begin preliminary talks with Exxon Mobil and Saudi Aramco about placing bitcoin mining rigs in oil fields, using flare gas to generate electricity directly? Crypto Twitter believes this is entirely possible, and if confirmed, such a…
Stablecoin issuer Tether plans to open source its bitcoin mining operating system (MOS) to allow mining companies of all sizes to run and manage their infrastructure without relying on third-party software, CEO Paolo Ardoino said Monday. Designed to optimally manage…
Amid the conflict between Iran and Israel, the investment community has once again resumed debates about the thesis that Bitcoin can replace real gold. The reason for the disputes was the opposite reaction of Bitcoin and gold prices at the…
Messari Says XRP Gets New Momentum in DeFi Thanks to FAssets and Flare’s FXRP Author: Shaurya Malwa | Edited by Parikshit Mishra , Jun 17, 2025, 2:00 PM. According to a report from Messari, Flare Network is driving deeper adoption…
Bitcoin mining hardware has evolved significantly over the past three years, from machines that produce massive terahashes to affordable rigs that operate at less than 20 joules per terahash (J/TH). At the Digital Mining World Summit last month, Bitmain unveiled…
On May 31, Bitcoin’s hashrate reached an all-time high of 943 exahashes per second (EH/s), but since then, the network’s computing power has dropped by more than 75 EH/s in the last few days. Bitcoin miners ended May with a…
Russia’s executive authorities have temporarily suspended the expansion of a ban on cryptocurrency mining that could have added several more regions to the already significant list of territories where the activity is strictly regulated. On Thursday, the Moscow government cancelled…
Bitcoin miner HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE) has reached a hashrate of over 10 exahashes per second (EH/s), up 58% from April, thanks to the launch of a 100-megawatt hydroelectric project in Paraguay. In a press release on Friday, the firm…
In 2024, Bitcoin’s SHA256 consensus algorithm was ranked third in profitability, but as of early June 2025, it shares first place with Litecoin’s Scrypt. On December 29, 2024, Scrypt, the mining algorithm for litecoin (LTC) and dogecoin (DOGE), firmly took…