Decentralized Bitcoin mining protocol Prosper has acquired over 7,000 ASIC miners from BITMAIN and completed a strategic funding round backed by Metalpha, Waterdrip Capital, BIT Mining, and Animoca Brands, according to an announcement. The acquisitions and funding aim to expand Prosper’s institutional-grade Bitcoin hashrate capacity… Read More
Riot Blockchain, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT), which is one of the leading Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining firms in the US, reveals its June production and operations updates, including its “unaudited” BTC production for the month of June 2021 and its “miner deployment status.” Last month, Riot produced… Read More
Bitcoin miners continue to move to Texas as the leading digital currency recently surpassed the $60,000 mark (and had also crossed $61,000 on March 14, 2021). Recently, Argo Blockchain confirmed its purchase of 320 acres of land located in West Texas. Argo said it would… Read More
Crypto billionaire Jihan Wu recently announced his departure from Bitmain, one of the world’s leading Bitcoin mining firms. Bitmain co-founder Micree Zhan has also managed to regain control of the leading Bitcoin mining conglomerate after fellow co-founder Wu tweeted a “coded” message explaining the “end… Read More
Bitmain, a leading manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining hardware, has sold 5,100 Antminers to Riot Blockchain (NASDAQ: RIOT). Bitmain had also finalized the sale of 8,000 additional Antminers (in September 2020) to Riot Blockchain, which is a Nasdaq-listed digital currency mining company. According to a release,… Read More
US-headquartered cryptocurrency mining firm, Riot Blockchain (NASDAQ: RIOT), recently revealed that it has more than doubled the number of high-end Bitcoin (BTC) miners it operates – which should roughly double its hashrate (amount of computing power) at around the time of the BTC halving…. Read More
Bitmain, the top hardware producer for crypto-mining, is in the midst of chaos according to multiple reports. The company posted a statement today attempting to clarify company representation (translated): Beijing Bitmain Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Beijing Bit”) is a wholly foreign-owned enterprise,… Read More
Trillions of dollars have been injected into the world’s financial markets in order to stabilize the global economy, following the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The United States recently reached the highest unemployment rate in its entire history. Even during these times of uncertainty, US crypto… Read More
Bitmain Technologies, a China-based consumer-grade ASIC miner, recently address fraudulent usage of websites Bitmain.farm and Antminersmiling.com. The company reported it discovered some websites that have been impersonating Bitmain and have been communicating with its existing customers under false pretense. “In order to protect the legitimate… Read More
Bitmain, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of cryptocurrency mining hardware, says it is reducing staff in order to head off a revenue squeeze that could occur when Bitcoin “halves” in May, Sina reports. Although, “the company is now operating normally and the cash flow… Read More
Chinese authorities have arrested Yang Zuoxing, an electronics engineer who reputedly designed several of Bitmain’s most popular “Antmine” cryptomining rigs in 2016 before he left and started a rival firm called MicroBT. Since then, Coindesk reports, MicroBT, based in Shenzhen, has reportedly captured about 40% market… Read More
Details have emerged regarding Jihan Wu’s plans to regroup cryptomining hardware giant Bitmain and restore company fortunes after the hostile ouster of co-f0under Micree Zhan earlier this fall. Zhan, an electrical engineer, and Wu, a Beijing tech entrepreneur, co-founded Bitmain in 2013. As one of… Read More
Compute North, an established provider of high-powered, large-scale data infrastructure, recently revealed that it has launched its biggest co-location facility in Kearney, Nebraska. The new data center facility is the company’s third site. Other sites are based in Texas and South Dakota. Compute North’s latest… Read More
Micree Ketuan Zhan, co-founder of Bitmain, the world’s largest manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining hardware, has promised in an open letter to take legal action against colleagues who “dismissed” him suddenly at the end of October. According to a translation of the letter obtained by The… Read More
On the heels of yesterday’s news that competitor Canaan has filed an IPO prospectus to go public on the Nasdaq comes a report that Bitmain, the world’s largest manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining hardware, is also seeking to go public on a New York Stock Exchange…. Read More
Micree Ketuan Zhan, majority stakeholder of world’s largest crypto mining hardware manufacturer, Bitmain, appears to have been forced out of the company he helped found with Jihan Wu. Chinese media including Sina reported on the developments, which appear to have been confirmed in an email… Read More
Rockdale, Texas, a former coal and aluminum producing town hit hard by the exit of those industries. DMG (TSX-V: DMGI), a Canadian firm, will provide hosting and management services for the Texas facility and will work with Bitmain to expand the capacity and to ensure… Read More
Bitmain, a manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining hardware and operator of crypto mining pools, announced on Friday it is planning to launch a platform to connect mining hardware owners with mining farm owners through the World Digital Mining Map (WDMM). The company reported: “To remain price-efficient,… Read More
Bitmain, the world’s largest cryptomining firm and manufacturer of cryptomining equipment says the company name is being fraudulently used by a project called “Mangocoin.” “We recently become aware of the fraudulent use of the ‘Bitmain’ brand in the sale of a product named ‘Bitmain Cloud… Read More
Development of “the largest data centre in the world,” in Rockdale, Texas, has slowed to a halt less than a year after the facility was announced by Bitmain, the world’s largest cryptomining firm, Wired reports. While courting officials in the region, Bitmain representatives promised to… Read More
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