A Nasdaq-traded Chinese Bitcoin mining firm has seen its shares fall 20% after a damning short report unveiled some alleged dodgy dealings. The share price of Chinese Bitcoin mining company Ebang continues to fall, while the firm refutes claims made in a Hindenburg Research report that alleged it was pilfering American investors’ cash. The Hindenburg Research…
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The $138.5 million deal will add an estimated 3.7 EH/s to Riot’s existing and planned mining capacity. Riot Blockchain, a cryptocurrency mining company, has expanded its fleet and mining capacity with a new purchase order for 42,000 S19j Antminers from Bitmain. Megan Brooks, Riot’s COO, said the latest purchase order positions her company and the…
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NKN price rallied to a new all-time high as the number of full consensus nodes on the network surpassed 67,000. One telltale sign of a growing altcoin season is when obscure and lesser-known projects start putting on face-melting gains as traders scramble to jump on the rising price. New Kind of Network (NKN) has emerged…
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The company mined 196 BTC in the first quarter, bringing its total holdings to 5,143.2 BTC. Shares of Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) surged on Monday after the cryptocurrency miner announced a significant increase in mining capacity in the first quarter, allowing it to up its stake in Bitcoin (BTC) by a considerable margin. MARA stock…
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Hong Kong Customs intercepted a large volume of pricey exotic foods, cosmetics and dedicated cryptocurrency mining GPUs in their latest successful anti-smuggling action. In the waters off Hong Kong International Authorities on April 2, Hong Kong Customs detected suspicious figures offloading cartons from a fishing boat to a nearby speedboat. While the men successfully fled,…
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“Blood coin,” “clean coin” and maybe even “virgin coin” will become commonplace phrases as Bitcoin’s environmental concerns continue to rage. Shark Tank and Dragon’s Den personality Kevin O’Leary is taking a stand against what he terms “blood coin,” that being Bitcoin (BTC) mined in China. The investor declared that he would only deal with “clean…
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The Texas-based miner raised more than $38 million in two separate funding rounds. Blockcap, one of North America’s fastest-growing Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies, has secured sizable investments from some of crypto’s biggest names, setting the stage for significant expansion in the year ahead. Off The Chain Capital and Foundry Digital, a subsidiary of Digital Currency…
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YouTuber Stacksmashing estimated his rig would take “a couple of quadrillion years to mine a Bitcoin.” An IT security researcher has been able to adapt Nintendo’s first major handheld game console to mine cryptocurrency. According to a recent YouTube video, user Stacksmashing used the hardware from a Nintendo Game Boy first released in 1989 as…
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Hydroelectric energy will power a new Bitcoin mining pool following Argo’s partnership with DMG Blockchain. Publicly-traded cryptocurrency mining firm Argo Blockchain will launch a Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool powered solely by clean energy, the company announced on March 26. Argo has partnered with fellow eco-friendly mining firm DMG Blockchain to create Terra Pool — a…
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Support.com and Greenidge Generation are expected to complete the merger in the third quarter of 2021. Greenidge Generation, a New-York based Bitcoin mining company that owns its own power plant, aims to go public through a merger with technical support provider Support.com. In an announcement today, Greenidge said it had signed an agreement with Support.com…
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