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F2 Pool's Chun Wang Named Space X Mars Commander After Mining 1. 3 Million Bitcoin
3+ hour, 20+ min ago (442+ words) Chun Wang is going to Mars. The co-founder of F2 Pool " one of the world's largest Bitcoin mining pools " has been named commander of Space X's first private interplanetary mission, a two-year Mars flyby and return journey to Earth. Wang made…...
IHC's $30 Million Dirham-Backed Stablecoin Deal Is a Gulf First
18+ hour, 50+ min ago (113+ words) International Holding Company just pulled off something nobody in the Gulf has done at this scale. The Abu Dhabi-based investment giant completed a $30 million transaction using DDSC, a stablecoin pegged directly to the UAE dirham " and it's being called the…...
F2 Pool's Chun Wang Trades Bitcoin Mining for a Two-Year Space X Mars Flyby
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (439+ words) Chun Wang is going to Mars. The F2 Pool co-founder has signed on to join Space X's Mars flyby mission " a two-year deep-space journey that would take him further from Earth than any human has traveled before. Space X hasn't disclosed…...
Canaan's ASIC Revenue Crashes 74% While Bitcoin Treasury Hits Record 1, 807 BTC
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (446+ words) Canaan just had a rough quarter. Revenue collapsed to $62. 7 million in Q1 2026, down from $196. 3 million the quarter before " a drop that's hard to spin any other way. Net loss widened to $88. 7 million. And yet, the company's crypto treasury hit a record…...
Bitcoin Miners Are Quietly Becoming Key Players in AI Computing Infrastructure
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (582+ words) Bitcoin miners didn't plan to be AI infrastructure companies. But here they are. Miners have always known GPUs are valuable. That's why they bought so many. But the value proposition has shifted pretty dramatically. It's not just about hashing power…...
Australian Platform Sells Bitcoin Mining Contracts Starting at $15 After Halving Cuts Block Rewards
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (303+ words) An Australian platform just dropped a range of Bitcoin mining contracts priced from $15 all the way up to $300, 000. No ASIC hardware required. The pitch is simple: get exposure to Bitcoin mining without buying a single machine. The timing isn't random....
Canaan Deploys 920 Bitcoin Miners to Heat 2, 800 Nordic Homes
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (252+ words) Canaan is heating homes with Bitcoin miners. The Chinese mining hardware maker landed a deal to supply its Avalon A1566 HA hydro-cooled units to a Nordic district heating network " basically turning the waste heat from cryptocurrency mining into hot water for…...
Canaan Bleeds $88. 7 M in Q1 as Bitcoin Slump Crushes Mining Hardware Sales
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (218+ words) Canaan got hit hard. The Bitcoin mining equipment maker posted a net loss of $88. 7 million for the first quarter, dragged down by a $25 million inventory write-down and a brutal collapse in hardware sales. It's a rough number by any measure....
MARA Dumps $1. 5 B in to Cut Debt, Eyes AI Power Play in Ohio
1+ week, 4+ day ago (111+ words) Marathon Digital just sold a massive chunk of its Bitcoin stash. The miner offloaded roughly 20, 880 BTC for about $1. 5 billion, getting an average price of $70, 137 per coin. That's a big move for any public company holding crypto. The sale dropped Marathon's…...
Seven Major Bitcoin Mining Pools Switch to Stratum V2 Protocol
2+ week, 2+ day ago (410+ words) Seven big Bitcoin mining pools just made a move. They're adopting Stratum V2, and it's kind of a big deal for how mining operations work. The mining industry has pretty much relied on the old Stratum V1 protocol for years now. Pool…...