Marathon Posts $1.3B Loss as Bitcoin’s 18% Slide Cuts Q1 Revenue by $35M
Key TakeawaysMarathon Holdings posted a $1.3 billion net loss in Q1 2026 due to an 18% drop in average bitcoin...
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Major Bitcoin Mining Pools Join Stratum V2 Collaborative Organization
Seven major Bitcoin mining pools have joined the Stratum V2 working group to develop an industry-wide open standard protocol used...
Hut 8 Stock Surges Over 30% Following $9.8B Deal
Investors appeared to disregard Hut 8's reported first quarter 2026 net loss of more than $253 million on Wednesday, lifting...
Riot Posts $167M in Q1 Revenue as Data Center Arm Pulls in $33M
Riot Platforms posted $167.2 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2026, with its newly launched data center business...
Uzbekistan Launches Crypto Mining Zone in Karakalpakstan
Uzbekistan has created a special crypto mining zone across Karakalpakstan under a presidential resolution signed on Friday, opening a supervised...
Bitcoin Network Eases as Difficulty Slides 2.43% and Hashprice Rises 13.65%
Key Takeaways: Bitcoin difficulty fell 2.43% to 135.59T on April 17, 2026, easing mining conditions. Hashrateindex.com shows hashprice up 13.65%,...
Major Bitcoin Mining Companies Sold More BTC in Q1 2026 Than All of 2025
Publicly traded Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies sold more BTC in Q1 2026 than in all four quarters of 2025, as...
Foundry Digital Launches Zcash Mining Pool
Crypto mining pool operator Foundry Digital has launched a pool for the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash, which the company says has...
Anthropic and CoreWeave Enter Collaborative AI Agreement
CoreWeave, a publicly traded AI cloud infrastructure company, announced on Friday a “multi-year” agreement with AI developer Anthropic, which will...
Bitcoin Miner Cango Sells 2,000 BTC, Cuts BTC Production Cost by 19%
Bitcoin mining company Cango said Wednesday it slashed its Bitcoin production cost to $68,215 per coin, a 19.3% cost reduction...
Solo Bitcoin Miner Wins $210K Block Reward
A solo Bitcoin miner secured a roughly $210,000 block reward on Thursday, proving that the so-called “mining lottery” is still...
Soluna Announces $53M Acquisition of Wind Farm for AI Facility
Soluna Holdings, a publicly traded Bitcoin (BTC) mining and AI infrastructure company focused on renewable energy, announced on Thursday that...
MARA Sells $1.1B in Bitcoin to Cut Debt by 30%
MARA Holdings sold more than $1 billion of Bitcoin in March to repurchase convertible debt at a discount, using its...
Bitcoin Mining Squeeze Narrows Viable Operators: CoinShares
Bitcoin mining economics are tightening to levels that are pushing a portion of the global fleet below profitability, according to...
Cango Reports $452M Net Loss Despite $688M Revenue in First Full Year of Bitcoin Mining
Cango Inc.’s first full year as a bitcoin miner delivered $688.1 million in revenue but ended with a $452.8 million...
From Blackouts to Bitcoin: South African Power Utility’s Surreal Pivot to High-Intensity Power Sales
Eskom, South Africa’s state-owned power utility, is reversing its previous stance by targeting high-intensity energy consumers, specifically bitcoin mining companies....
Can you still mine Bitcoin on a PC in 2026? Here is the reality
Mining Bitcoin on a desktop in 2026 may sound simple, but is it profitable? Do rising network difficulty and energy...
Morgan Stanley Backs Core Scientific With up to $1B Financing for Data Center Growth
Core Scientific has secured a major financing arrangement with Morgan Stanley that could provide up to $1 billion to support...
Solo Bitcoin Miner Hits Rare 3.125 BTC Jackpot With Rented Hashrate
A solo Bitcoin miner notched a rare win by validating an entire Bitcoin block, securing a huge payday using a...
Engie Eyes Bitcoin Mining to Address Solar‑Power Curtailment in Brazil
The energy conglomerate is considering adding local power demand, in the form of bitcoin mining or storage systems, for its...
Riot Platform‘s AI/HPC Push could Net up to $21B, Says Stockholder
An activist Riot Platform shareholder is pressing the crypto mining company to accelerate its pivot to high-performance computing (HPC) and...
After an 11% Difficulty Cut, Bitcoin Is Poised for Aggressive Recalibration
While bitcoin just posted its steepest difficulty decline since China’s 2021 mining purge, the network has already found its footing,...
