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Riot Blockchain Produces 243 Bitcoins (BTC) Currently Valued at Over $8 Million during June 2021

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 Mining Facilities to Texas as Crypto and Blockchain Sector Gets Larger in Unprecedented Bull Market

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

Bitcoin Mining Industry Updates: Better Reporting Metrics like Hashrate Under Management Needed, Jihan Wu Finally Leaves Bitmain

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

Bitcoin Mining Hardware Maker Bitmain Closes another Antminer Deal with Riot Blockchain, 20,000+ Miners Sold by Bitmain to Riot in a Year

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

Riot Blockchain, a US-based Cryptocurrency Mining Firm, Plans to Almost Double its Hashrate Following Bitcoin (BTC) Halving

  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

Chaos at Bitmain

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

San Francisco-based Crypto Exchange Kraken to Hire 67 New Staff Members, Despite Economic Uncertainty Due to Coronavirus

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 Addresses Fraudulent Use of Websites Bitmain.farm & Antminersmiling.com

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

Report: Layoffs at Cryptomining Giant Bitmain as Company Anticipates Possible Revenue Squeeze from Upcoming Bitcoin “Halving”

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

Former Bitmain Hardware Designer and Founder of Rival MicroBT Accused of Embezzlement in China

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

Bitmain’s Jihan Wu Hosts First Promotional Meeting Since Ouster of Co-Founder, Micree Zhan

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

Large-Scale Data Infrastructure Provider Compute North Launches 100+ Megawatts Facility in Kearney, Nebraska

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

“Dismissed” Bitmain Co-Founder, Micree Zhan, Vows Legal Action in Open Letter

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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

Bitmain, World’s Largest Manufacturer of Cryptomining Hardware, Files for IPO in New York

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

Co-Founder of Cryptomining Giant Bitmain, Micree Zhan, “Dismissed”

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

Bitmain’s Back: Cryptomining Giant “Fulfils” Promise to Create Facility in Texas

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 Set to Launch Digital Mining Map

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 Alleges Fraudulent Use of Name by Mangocoin (MGC)

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

Adios, Amigo: Proposed $500 Million Bitmain Cryptomining Facility Dormant in Texas

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

Report: Former Bitmain CEO Working to Create “Biggest OTC (Crypto) Desk…Overnight”

Jihan Wu, departed CEO and co-founder of the world’s largest crypto-mining hardware producer, Bitmain, will launch an OTC cryptocurrency custody and trading desk called Matrix within a month, sources to  The Block report. The unnamed commenters also believe the exchange will have a tremendous advantage in… Read More

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