In June, WSJ’s Joanna Stern headed inside a data center to show just how much energy it takes to make an AI image and video. Photo: David Hall It’s harder than ever to mine bitcoin. And less ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Korok Ray is a PhD economist/professor who researches/teaches Bitcoin. Bitcoin mining looks like a heavy industrial process—rows ...

Bitcoin’s hashrate fell 4% last month, the biggest drop since April 2024. VanEck says hashrate drops usually lead to stronger BTC returns for long-term holders. BTC’s price recently fell 9%, but data ...

Residents in Hood County, Texas, say Marathon Digital’s Bitcoin mine has produced nonstop noise since 2022, disrupting daily life and triggering health, legal, and property value concerns. Locals ...

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has signaled that certain Bitcoin miner hosting services may fall under federal securities laws. The position emerged in a newly filed enforcement action, ...

A solo bitcoin miner was charged by the SEC for misappropriating $48.5 million from investors by selling bogus mining hosting agreements that promised passive income. The U.S. Securities and Exchange ...

Data suggests that fears about Xinjiang-related Bitcoin mining have overstated the impact, with hashrate losses proving brief and driven partly by US power curtailments. Recent claims of a major ...

Bitcoin mining firm Hut 8 is the latest crypto infrastructure company to lock in large-scale, Google-backed financing, as miners increasingly pivot toward artificial intelligence data centers to ...

Dec 17 (Reuters) - Hut 8 (HUT.O), opens new tab has signed a deal valued at about $7 billion to lease a data center in Louisiana, it said on Wednesday, as former cryptocurrency miners pivot to meet ...

Hut 8 secured a Google-backed partnership with Anthropic and Fluidstack to build up to 2.3 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in the U.S., sending its shares sharply higher. Hut 8 Corp. announced a ...