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Bitdeer Invests $36 Million in First US Sealminer Factory as Bitcoin Mining Margins Stay Tight
10+ hour, 48+ min ago (502+ words) Bitdeer has begun construction on a $36 million electronics manufacturing facility in Sparks, Nevada, its first U. S. assembly site for Sealminer machines. Bitdeer is moving ahead with a major U. S. manufacturing push, breaking ground on a $36 million advanced electronics facility in Sparks, Nevada,…...
Tether Expands Its Footprint in Latin America With a $20 Million Investment in Mercado Bitcoin
16+ hour, 41+ min ago (384+ words) The stablecoin giant announced that this investment will support Mercado Bitcoin's expansion efforts in payment infrastructure, tokenized investment offerings, lending and credit, and on-chain capital markets. The move follows several capital injections by the company for several Latam-focused initiatives. Latam…...
Miners Absorb 18% Hashprice Crash as Bitcoin Difficulty Jumps 7. 15%
1+ week, 5+ day ago (246+ words) Bitcoin's difficulty climbed sharply this week, rising 7. 15% and notching the second-largest upward adjustment of the year. Although the network has recorded six increases in 2026, downward adjustments have remained the prevailing theme. Onchain data shows that on June 26, 2026, at block height…...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Set for Steep Drop as Hashrate Slides After Price Crash
3+ week, 5+ day ago (400+ words) Bitcoin's mining difficulty is on track for the second-largest downward adjustment this year, offering a reprieve to miners after a sharp pullback in network hashrate followed bitcoin's early June price crash. The network's next difficulty adjustment is currently estimated to…...
Solo Home Miner Wins $232 K Bitcoin Block With a $300 Machine at 149 Million-to-1 Odds
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (448+ words) A solo home miner running a consumer-grade Canaan Avalon Nano 3 S beat odds of roughly 149 million to one, winning Bitcoin block 951771 this weekend, and collecting a reward worth approximately $232, 000. The block was mined at approximately 00: 27 UTC through Braiins Solo, a…...
Expert Says Bitcoin Miners Are Expanding Beyond Mining Into Energy Infrastructure
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (365+ words) The Bitcoin network received a fresh difficulty bump this week at block height 951552, with the protocol dialing things up by 1. 72%. Meanwhile, the network's hashrate kept flexing its muscles, climbing past the 1, 000 exahash per second (EH/s), or 1 zettahash per second (ZH…...
The Future of Bitcoin Mining Is Bigger Than Bitcoin
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1099+ words) The first installment of this Bitcoin-AI convergence series explored a foundational idea: Bitcoin mining was never just about digital currency. It was designed as a long-term energy system, converting electricity into computation. The second installment examined how modern AI data…...
Chun Wang Steps Away From F2 Pool to Lead Space X's 2-Year Interplanetary Starship Flight
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (489+ words) F2 Pool co-founder Chun Wang has been named Mission Commander for Space X's first crewed interplanetary Starship flight, a roughly two-year mission targeting a high-altitude Mars flyby without landing. Space X confirmed Wang's appointment on May 22, 2026. The mission will carry a…...
Soluna Buys out Dorothy 1 B as Bitcoin-to-AI Campus Conversion Advances
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (485+ words) Soluna (NASDAQ: SLNH) Holdings has acquired full ownership of another portion of its flagship Texas campus, continuing a broader effort to transform a bitcoin mining complex into an AI and high-performance computing site backed by owned renewable energy. The company…...
Bitcoin Miner Revenue Drops 9. 44% Following Network Difficulty Jump
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (273+ words) After approaching $40 per petahash per second (PH/s) in hashprice terms, bitcoin's latest price decline triggered a pullback in hashprice, reducing mining profitability since May 14. Conditions tightened further the next day when the difficulty adjustment arrived, pushing mining difficulty 3. 12% higher than…...