Bitcoin mining has long been criticized for its tremendous electricity consumption, with much of the energy ultimately ...

A miner using the Ocean pool’s DATUM protocol declined to signal support for the controversial BIP-110 fork and instead mined block 961,634 on bitcoin’s main chain. Simple Mining’s decision ...

The breakaway chain inherited bitcoin’s mining difficulty with only a tiny share of hashpower, leaving blocks hours apart ...

Bitcoin miners were supposed to track bitcoin, but the biggest names in the space have quietly rewired their business models ...

Bernstein analysts remain bullish on the Bitcoin mining sector, as deals with third-party providers will be necessary to address the computing power limits of AI data centers. Bernstein said that it ...

Bitcoin miner Poolin filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and initiated a $52 million sale of its two West Texas mining sites as part of its future creditor recovery program. Singapore-based Bitcoin mining ...

Bitcoin is selling off and so is the stock market — but mining stocks are on a tear. Bitcoin may be slumping — along with the Nasdaq in general — but one technology investment seems to be doing well: ...

A volunteer security effort says it has scanned 150 Bitcoin repositories and disclosed more than a dozen vulnerabilities.

Every 2,016 blocks, i.e. roughly every two weeks, Bitcoin automatically resets how hard it is to mine a block, a self-correcting rule that swung from an 11.16% cut on Feb. 7, 2026 to a 14.7% hike just ...

Bitcoin is down as some lawmakers push for a vote on the long-awaited Clarity Act. Bitcoin’s price slid further on Tuesday as investors weighed up the chances of lawmakers voting on the long-awaited ...

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Federal regulators and policymakers have shepherded cryptocurrency from the fringes of investing into the mainstream, introducing digital assets to exchange-traded funds and retirement accounts. A new ...