After corporate infighting temporarily halted chip shipments in 2020, Bitmain’s Antminer team says business will resume as normal following former CEO Jihan Wu’s departure. Bitcoin (BTC) mining rig manufacturer Bitmain has issued a notice to customers stating that business operations will resume as normal in light of former chairman and CEO Jihan Wu’s departure from…
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Where can you mine Bitcoin and Ether in 2020? Here are the top tips about mining pools and what you need to know before joining one of them. For the past several months, miners around the world have been extremely active, which can be seen through spikes in hash rates that coincided with a significant…
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Riot Blockchain has purchased a further 5,100 Antminer S19 Pros, with the firm targeting an operational hashrate of 2 exahashes per second by June 2021. Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm Riot Blockchain has announced a new purchase of 5,100 Bitmain S19 Pro Antminers, that are slated for deployment in February 2021. The new miners will…
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Former Bitmain staff have been accused of “illegally” moving 10,000 Antiminers from a company-owned mining facility in Mongolia. In the ongoing power struggle at cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain, not only have accusations of “illegal power seizures” made headlines, but now the physical theft of mining hardware as well. A new post on Bitmain-owned Antminer’s WeChat…
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Fresh investments into mining equipment by smaller companies signals an optimistic outlook for the future of Bitcoin. Recent investments into cryptocurrency mining equipment by smaller players could be a positive signal for the longevity and value of Bitcoin (BTC). In late June, United States-based blockchain firm Core Scientific ordered over 17,000 of the latest Bitcoin…
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Two weeks after announcing it had purchased a record 17,595 Antminer S19 ASICs, Core Scientific has announced an expanded partnership with a multi-billion hedge fund. United States-based crypto mining host Core Scientific has announced that the $5.3 billion asset manager and hedge fund Horizon Kinetics has upgraded its investment to access Bitmain’s news Antminer S19…
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Despite increasing revenue, Riot Blockchain’s first-quarter financials reveal that the company has relied on equity and debt financing to fund its operations. U.S. mining firm Riot Blockchain has published its financial report for Q1 2020 — painting a picture of a company heavily reliant on equity and debt financing to fund its operations. The firm…
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Riot Blockchain has announced the purchase of an additional equipment for its post-halving operations. U.S.-based mining firm, Riot Blockchain, has more than doubled the number of next-generation Bitcoin (BTC) miners it has purchased, buying 1,040 Antminer S19s from Bitmain on May 6. The additional miners cost the firm $1.9 million, following Riot’s purchase of 1,000…
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The Blockstream CSO announced that Bitcoin miners are reporting technical issues with the Bitmain rigs resulting in 20-30% failure rates. Cryptocurrency miners relying on the Bitmain S17 and T17 Antminer have said that the rigs have failure rates between 20-30% where they would normally be roughly 5%. According to an April 26 tweet from Samson…
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The Bitcoin miner reward halving is almost here, but what if there’s no price pump? Can the miners stay afloat? With the COVID-19 pandemic grabbing most headlines the past few weeks, the cryptosphere has been directing some of its attention toward Bitcoin’s reward halving. With the event just four weeks away and the Bitcoin Cash…
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