bitcoin mining
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Bitdeer mined 288.1 BTC in its latest weekly update and sold 288.4 BTC, leaving the Bitcoin miner with zero pure BTC holdings as of September 25. The latest figures continue a pattern Bitdeer has used during 2026: mine Bitcoin, sell production and keep little or no pure Bitcoin on the balance sheet. The company reported…
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IREN’s reported gross Bitcoin mining hardware balance fell from approximately $1.136 billion at June 30, 2025 to $597.0 million at June 30, 2026, a reduction of about 47.4% year over year as the company decommissions miners and redirects data-center capacity toward AI Cloud Services. The percentage does not mean every IREN ASIC lost 47% of…
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Bitcoin briefly moved above JPMorgan’s estimated $85,000 average production cost after spending roughly 280 days below the level, a development analysts say could reduce financial pressure on Bitcoin miners if the move proves sustainable. JPMorgan analysts led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou described production cost as a historical “soft floor” for Bitcoin. When market price remains below…
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Google LLC, XXVI Holdings and Alphabet filed a Schedule 13G on September 25 reporting beneficial ownership of 41,011,803 TeraWulf shares issuable through warrants held directly by Google LLC, representing 7.6% of the filing’s calculated share base. The filing is a new regulatory ownership disclosure tied to TeraWulf’s expanding relationship with Google-backed AI infrastructure at Lake…
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CleanSpark has closed a $2.276 billion senior secured debt financing to fund completion of its Sandersville, Georgia data center, marking one of the largest infrastructure financings yet by a company built around industrial Bitcoin mining. The 7.875% senior secured notes mature in 2031 and were sold at 98.5% of principal. CleanSpark’s financing subsidiary plans to…
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Cipher Digital has extended the contracted life of its 300 MW Barber Lake data center in Colorado City, Texas from 10 years to 20 years, adding approximately $5.2 billion of contracted revenue and taking the site’s total above $9 billion. The September 25 agreements pair an amendment to Cipher’s existing Fluidstack lease with a binding…
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Bitcoin mining difficulty jumped 4.16% on September 19 to 132.76 trillion, tightening machine-level economics just as operators continue deploying more efficient ASIC fleets. According to Hashrate Index, the adjustment lifted difficulty from roughly 127.45T to 132.76T. Its September 21 snapshot put the seven-day network hashrate average near 946 EH/s and the 30-day average near 934…
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Texas has paused new state permits for data centers while regulators audit the industry’s impact on electricity and water, putting a new constraint around one of the most important power markets for Bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure. On September 21, Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to halt permits sought by…
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Some of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miners are no longer treating artificial intelligence as a side business. They are physically reallocating energized megawatts, retiring ASIC hardware and converting mining campuses into high-density AI and HPC data centers. A new CoinShares Q2 2026 Bitcoin mining report puts numbers behind that transition. The report estimates the…
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Bitdeer is bringing a major piece of Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturing to the United States with a new $36 million SEALMINER production facility in Sparks, Nevada. The 187,000-square-foot electronics plant is scheduled for completion by the end of 2026 and is designed to produce as many as 10,000 SEALMINER machines per month. At that stated…

