Tagged: bitmain

April 7, 2019 @ 11:31 am By Cali Haan  |  

The price of Bitcoins made a newsworthy jump of 20% last Monday morning, and that gain is still holding, but the lean early months of 2018 saw a second round of layoffs at Hut 8, “Canada’s largest cryptocurrency miner,” CBC reports. Hut 8 runs 85… Read More

March 27, 2019 @ 2:44 am By Cali Haan  |  

An IPO application submitted by Bitmain to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in September has lapsed. Bitmain is the world’s largest crypto-mining consortium. The company operates numerous crypto mining and research facilities across the globe and also designs and manufactures some of the industry’s most… Read More

March 22, 2019 @ 3:43 am By Cali Haan  |  

One of the world’s largest cryptomining companies, Bitmain, has announced the release of a new crypto mining machine it claims is three times faster than its previous model. The new “Antminer Z11” is designed for the dedicated mining of cryptocurrencies that use the Equihash algorithm… Read More

February 18, 2019 @ 3:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bitmain Technologies, a China-based consumer-grade ASIC miner, announced on Monday the launch of its next-generation 7nm ASIC chip, BM1397. According to Bitmain, the new chip achieves new feats in performance, chip area and energy efficiency for mining cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH),… Read More

February 14, 2019 @ 3:07 am By Cali Haan  |  

Developers of the privacy-cryptocurrency Monero have announced they’ll be “forking” (making code changes to) their network, changes that will reportedly make it impossible for “miners” using powerful ASIC-chip-laden machinery to process transactions on the network, Blockchain Reporter states. The change, which is scheduled to take… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 11:29 am By Cali Haan  |  

The rumoured appointment of a new CEO at cryptomining giant Bitmain does not appear to have enhanced the company’s prospects of going public in Hong Kong, South China Morning News reports. Responding generally to media questions about cryptomining firms seeking IPOs in Hong Kong, Charles… Read More

January 14, 2019 @ 10:49 pm By Cali Haan  |  

“We had welcomed this.” Locals in Rockdale, Texas, a small town east of Austin that recently lost two of its largest employers and 30% of the local tax base, are disappointed to learn that Bitmain, the world’s largest manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining equipment and operator… Read More

January 10, 2019 @ 12:21 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A new CEO is already in place at Bitmain, the world’s largest manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining equipment and operator of crypto mines, a source to Hong Kong news outlet The South China Morning Post (SCMP) claims. Though Bitmain itself has refused to confirm the change, a former… Read More

January 8, 2019 @ 11:35 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Canaan, the second biggest maker of cryptocurrency mining hardware after Bitmain, may be bringing its bid to go public to a New York exchange after being rejected in Hong Kong, Bloomberg reports. The company may be seeking to sell shares on a US exchange in… Read More

December 31, 2018 @ 9:13 am By Cali Haan  |  

Rumours of widespread layoffs at Bitmain, the world’s largest manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining equipment and largest operator of crypto-mining pools, are now being followed by stories the company’s two famous founders -Micree Zhan and Jihan Wu- will be leaving their posts as Bitmain co-directors, Weixin… Read More

December 27, 2018 @ 4:51 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bitmain, the world’s largest manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining hardware and largest operator of crypto mining pools, and Huobi, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, have both confirmed rumours they will be laying off employees, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports. The value of global crypto markets has declined by… Read More

December 26, 2018 @ 3:27 am By Cali Haan  |  

GMO, a large Japanese Internet-service provider, announced December 25th that it is abandoning the manufacture of hardware for the mining of cryptocurrencies following “extraordinary losses” in the company’s cryptocurrency division in Q4 2018: “After taking into consideration changes in the current business environment, the Company… Read More

December 18, 2018 @ 2:05 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange appears to be reluctant to approve crypto mining giant Bitmain’s application to go public there, possibly because the 2018 bear market is highlighting unreliability in crypto markets. “What they are doing is they are just dragging the case right now,”… Read More

December 10, 2018 @ 11:59 am By Cali Haan  |  

ETCDEV, a startup leading the development of Ethereum Classic, is dead, Bloomberg reports. “There are a few things that happened at the same time. I am sure if that happened a year ago, that wouldn’t be a problem at all, a year ago there was a… Read More

December 10, 2018 @ 8:37 am By Cali Haan  |  

Poor prices and the “general decline” of crypto markets have claimed another casualty, Globes reports. This time it’s in Ra’anana, Israel, where a Bitmain development facility started in 2016 and expanded in July will be closed this week and 23 employees laid off. The facility’s… Read More

December 9, 2018 @ 4:51 pm By Cali Haan  |  

At least one Chinese cryptocurrency miner is taking a creative financial approach to surviving “Crypto Winter” -the bear market currently punishing crypto prices to some of their lowest levels in over a year, 8BTC reports. Jin Xin, for example, “an ordinary Chinese miner,” is taking a… Read More

December 9, 2018 @ 1:49 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Over the past two weeks, the Israel Tax Authority has opened tax accounts for hundreds of Israelis it believes failed to report profits from cryptocurrency investing, Calcalist reports. The authority is also striking deals with Israeli crypto exchanges obliging them to report big transactions. Notices… Read More

December 6, 2018 @ 9:21 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Plaintiffs in Florida have brought a suit against Bitcoin Cash ABC, it’s leader Roger Ver, the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange, and others, arguing the parties colluded, “to take control of the Bitcoin Cash network for personal gain…which caused a global capitalization meltdown of the Bitcoin Cash network… Read More

November 24, 2018 @ 9:47 am By Cali Haan  |  

A class action suit against the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining equipment maker and cryptomining conglomerate, Bitmain, has been filed in Northern California. The suit will test rumours circulating in crypto circles for some time that allege Bitmain used customers’ newly-purchased machines to mine crypto at… Read More

October 18, 2018 @ 10:35 am By Cali Haan  |  

New tariffs in the US that raise taxes on imports of crypto-mining machines from 2.6% to 27.6% may significantly impact revenues at Chinese companies like Bitmain, South China Morning News (SCMP) reports. The tariffs have come into place after American trade overseers in August reclassified, for… Read More