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Q1 2026 was the most turbulent period for bitcoin miners since the China mining ban in 2021, a new Luxor report reveals.

Bitcoin's energy-intensive model makes it vulnerable, economist Steve Keen warns.

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The move reflects a bet that institutions will embrace Zcash, and as Foundry positions itself as a linchpin of U.S. crypto ...

The average public miner spent $79,995 to produce one bitcoin last quarter. Bitcoin is trading at $70,000. The math doesn't work, so the industry is pivoting to AI, taking on $70 billion in contracts, ...

Bitcoin's hash rate is dropping for the first time in years. One mining CEO says that's actually a good thing.

For many bitcoin miners, it has cost more in recent months to produce a bitcoin than the coin can be sold for, leading them ...

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

CoreWeave, a public Bitcoin miner that ditched Bitcoin for an AI venture, is winning big. According to Blocksbridge ...

One of the side effects of the energy-intensive process of bitcoin mining is the excess heat that is created by the involved hardware devices. Miners have to prove that they’ve expended energy on ...