bitcoin mining
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Braiins has pushed a new firmware cycle focused less on headline hashrate and more on what keeps an ASIC fleet alive through restarts, curtailments, cold starts and field troubleshooting. Braiins OS 26.09 arrived September 16 with new power-supply temperature visibility, searchable logs and startup controls, followed by version 26.09.1 on September 24 to correct an…
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Hut 8’s 1 GW Beacon Point AI data center in Nueces County, Texas, has received a conditional Base Load classification in ERCOT’s Batch Zero process, preserving a critical path toward energizing one of the largest power-backed AI campuses being developed by a company with roots in Bitcoin mining. The regulatory step is significant because Texas…
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A completed Bitcoin mining installation in Monterrey, Mexico, is packing 31.68 megawatts of hydro-cooled computing infrastructure into twelve 40-foot modular containers. Infrastructure supplier APEXTO disclosed the project on September 21, providing a rare equipment-level view of a large industrial mining deployment outside the United States. According to APEXTO, the unnamed enterprise operator installed twelve AP-HC40-A480…
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Royalty Management Holding Corporation is testing a second Bitcoin mining and digital-infrastructure site through its wholly owned subsidiary, The Vault Holding. The first deployment is intentionally small: four next-generation Antminer machines designed to determine whether the location is worth scaling. The September 14 announcement says the potential site includes more than 20 acres of development…
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CleanSpark produced 593 BTC in August with 50 EH/s operational hashrate, 201,269 deployed miners, 808 MW utilized and 1.8 GW of power under contract.
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Sterling Digital has crossed the line from building a Bitcoin mining site to actually producing Bitcoin. The UK-listed miner recorded its first verified BTC during live commissioning of an off-grid natural-gas-powered facility in West Texas, validating the complete chain from fuel supply to electricity, ASIC computation and institutional custody. The September 2 regulatory update gives…
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Atlantic HPC Group has signed a definitive agreement to go public through a business combination with Aperture AC, putting a $150 million pre-money equity value on a digital-infrastructure company whose current operating base is primarily Bitcoin mining. The September 11 transaction is especially relevant to miners because Atlantic is attempting to turn an existing power-and-mining…
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Bitcoin mining is becoming harder to understand by watching only the largest publicly traded miners. New September data shows the public-company share of global hashrate is shrinking while private and sovereign operators take a larger portion of the network. JPMorgan analysts said this week that publicly listed miners are losing share of Bitcoin mining activity…
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Ethiopia’s rapid rise as a global Bitcoin mining hub is facing a physical constraint that ASIC efficiency cannot solve: there is less water flowing into the country’s hydroelectric reservoirs. Ethiopian Electric Power has reduced electricity supplied to cryptocurrency mining operators to about 23% of contracted capacity as dry conditions cut reservoir inflows. A September 20…
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Soluna Holdings’ wind-powered Project Dorothy in Briscoe County, Texas is becoming a useful case study in how Bitcoin mining infrastructure can secure power today while creating a path toward much larger AI data-center development. Recent industry coverage highlighted ERCOT’s conditional Base Load classification for the 100 MW Dorothy campus. Soluna says Dorothy 1 and Dorothy…
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BITMAIN’s 600 TH/s ANTMINER S23 XP Hyd. is moving toward November shipments with a manufacturer-rated efficiency of 8.9 J/TH.
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Luxor Technology is taking the infrastructure stack it built for Bitcoin mining and expanding it into artificial intelligence data centers. The company launched Luxor AI on September 24, bringing energy services, GPU sourcing, physical compute contracts, compute derivatives, cloud infrastructure and market data under one business. The move is notable because Luxor is not abandoning…
