In its Q1 2025 report, blockchain analytics firm Messari highlights significant changes in Bitcoin sidechain Rootstock, including historically high merged mining participation of 81%, up from 56.4% last quarter. This follows the integration of Foundry, the largest Bitcoin mining pool.…
American Bitcoin, which is majority owned by the Trump family, will go public through a merger with Gryphon Digital Mining (GRYP). Shares of Hut 8 Corp. (HUT) rose 12% in pre-market trading, while shares of Gryphon Digital Mining (GRYP) surged…
Malaysia's largest national power company, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), is supporting authorities in the fight against electricity theft linked to illegal cryptocurrency mining in the country, which it says has increased by nearly 300% over the past six years. In…
Public Keys is a weekly report from Decrypt that tracks key publicly traded cryptocurrency companies. This week: Bitcoin miners are struggling, Coinbase tries to throw some muddle ahead of its disappointing quarterly report, and sources say Meta is showing interest…
Shares of bitcoin miner MARA Holdings (MARA) were up against their peers on Friday, even though its first-quarter results fell short of Wall Street expectations. However, analysts noted the company's positive focus on cutting costs. Jefferies noted that with the…
With Bitcoin rising to levels not seen since early February, the network's computing power has reached a record 929 exahashes per second (EH/s), a measure of how hard miners are competing to add the next block. Miners are increasing the…