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A lone Bitcoin miner hit the jackpot on Friday morning, mining a block without a pool of supporting miners, and receiving a reward of $266,000. But how realistic is such luck? On Friday, an unknown miner processed Bitcoin block 888,737.…
Mining pools Foundry, Antpool, and Viabtc collectively control over 65% of the network’s global hashrate, leveraging their dominance through scale, competitive fees, and tailored incentives for participants. Shared mining pools combine the computing power of individual miners to increase the…
The second-largest publicly traded corporate bitcoin holder, MARA Holdings (MARA), has announced the completion of the acquisition of a wind farm in Texas, adding 114 megawatts of nameplate wind capacity and 240 megawatts of interconnection capacity to its operations. The…
The total hashrate of the U.S.-listed bitcoin (BTC) miners tracked by JPMorgan (JPM) has almost doubled from a year ago and now accounts for about 29% of the global network, the bank said in a report on Tuesday. The combined…
Bitfinex securities is planning to issue tokenized Bitcoin Mining Note BMN2 from El Salvador under the Salvadorian law in 2025. Bitfinex Securities lanzará importantes productos tokenizados desde El Salvador en — Paolo Ardoino 🤖🍐 (@paoloardoino) January 30, 2025 According…
It’s what every Bitcoiner dreams of: buying a cheap hobby miner, processing a block with little effort (or energy), and taking home the jackpot. And that’s what initially appeared to happen this week, when journalist Pete Rizzo flagged on X…
A solo miner succeeded in producing the header for Bitcoin block 881423, taking the whole 3.125 BTC rewards. The miner is part of a new drive to use simple equipment to bring back retail BTC block production. A Bitcoin block…
The news got buried in part due to Trump’s inauguration and subsequent rumblings of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR), but developer b10c recently published research showing that F2Pool — a mining pool representing ~11% of hash power on the Bitcoin…
Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms (RIOT) finds itself a target of a second activist investor, with Reuters reporting investment management giant D.E. Shaw as having taken an unspecified stake. The move by D.E. Shaw, which manages $70 billion in assets, comes…