Mining-to-AI
Hashrate & mining-to-AIThe shift of crypto-mining compute capacity toward AI workloads.
PBOC and Seven Other Agencies Ban Crypto Mining Projects and Bar Mining Rig Makers from Selling Mining Rigs in China
China’s regulators tightened crypto rules, banning offshore services, RMB-pegged stablecoins and unapproved RWA tokenization to curb speculation and financial risks.
Shut Down or Fight Back? Bitcoin Falls Below $60,000 as Miners Face Their 'Darkest Hour
Bitcoin’s fall below $60,000 and rising mining difficulty are squeezing miners, forcing even giants like MARA toward potential loss-making coin sales.
Sichuan’s Liangshan Issues Another Crypto Mining Ban, With Butuo County Warning: “Losses Are Yours, Contracts Are Invalid
Butuo County in Sichuan has renewed its blanket ban on crypto mining, signaling tighter enforcement against underground operations using remote hydropower resources.
AI Eats Bitcoin: A Defection Driven by Survival, and a Moat That Is Disappearing
Bitcoin miners facing record-low revenues are repurposing power infrastructure for AI data centers, raising concerns that Bitcoin’s network security is being permanently weakened.
Russian Mining Giant Collapses: CEO Arrested, Assets Sold Off, and a Long-Planned Backroom Play?
Russian crypto miner BitRiver faces bankruptcy proceedings, mounting debts and executive departures as founder Igor Runets is confined over alleged tax evasion.
Could Bitcoin Mining Help South Africa’s Power Giant Climb Out From Under 400 Billion Rand in Debt?
South Africa’s Eskom is reportedly considering a Bitmach Bitcoin mining partnership to monetize surplus electricity, add flexible demand and ease pressure from heavy debt.
Bitdeer Overtakes MARA as Jihan Wu Claims the Top Spot in Global Computing Power
Bitdeer has overtaken MARA in total hashrate, driven by scarce clean-power capacity in Norway as tightening policies reshape Bitcoin mining competition.
Bitcoin’s “Great Blackout”: A Computing Power Battle Royale Under an Arctic Storm
A severe Arctic storm forced U.S. Bitcoin miners offline, sharply reducing network hashrate, slowing block times, and setting up a major difficulty adjustment.
Silicon Valley Newcomers 'Snatch' Mining Farms: Behind the AI Computing Power Leap, a Brutal Land Grab
Bitcoin miners and AI data centers face growing community resistance over electricity and land use, forcing conversions and delays.
CleanSpark Spent $300 Million on Its CEO’s Pay. Then Its Own Mining Rigs Stalled in the Snow.
CleanSpark shares fell after CEO Matthew Schultz received nearly $45 million in equity awards and the miner warned extreme cold could disrupt operations.
260 EH/s of Computing Power Vanishes: A Cold Snap Exposes Bitcoin’s Biggest Myth
Bitcoin mining power plunged as Arctic storms hit North America, with miners shutting rigs to profit from grid demand-response payments amid surging electricity prices.
Ethiopia Stakes Its National Fate on a High-Risk Bet: A Poor East African Plateau Turns State Power Into Bitcoin
Ethiopia is courting partners for state-backed Bitcoin mining, leveraging surplus hydropower to capture revenue, expand technical capacity and strengthen its global crypto footprint.
Bitcoin Mining Kingpin ‘Defects’: Riot Teams Up With AMD to Force an AI Empire Into the Texas Desert?
Riot Platforms sold bitcoin to buy Texas land, accelerating its AI and high-performance computing push as miners seek higher returns from power assets.
Buying Up Texas: Bitcoin Mining Giants Are Racing to “Clean Up” Their Image. Is AI Really Their Lifeline?
CleanSpark is buying Texas land for a 300MW AI and HPC data center, reflecting bitcoin miners’ shift toward power-rich computing infrastructure.
Crushing MARA? The 'Asymmetric Strike' Behind Bitdeer's 636 BTC: In-House Chips Are the Endgame for Computing Power
Bitdeer’s December 2025 bitcoin output surged to 636 BTC as self-developed SEALMINER deployments boosted hashrate, narrowing its gap with MARA.
After U.S. “Red Sunset” Operation, Bitmain Issues Firmware Update and Withdraws Its “Hand of God
Bitmain’s new Antminer firmware permanently disables microUSB ports, raising miner concerns over maintenance, third-party software, and renewed manufacturer control risks.
Bitcoin Mining Pools Are Being Reshuffled: America Cashes In, Mining Barons Exit, and Ordinary People Lose the Dream of Getting Rich from Crypto Mining
Crypto mining in 2026 is increasingly dominated by institutional capital, compliant mining pools, and energy-backed giants, challenging Bitcoin’s decentralization ideals.
Riot Dumps $160 Million: Mining Giant Riot Takes the Hit and Heads for the Exit. Is the Hard-Core Era for BTC Miners Over?
Riot Platforms’ record Bitcoin sale signals mounting pressure on miners as post-halving hashprice lows squeeze margins despite BTC trading near $90,000.
Has the Darkest Hour Passed? Bitcoin Miners’ 2025 Winter and Their 2026 Lifeline
Bitcoin miners entered 2026 under revenue pressure as weak hashprice, low fees and rising hashrate make efficiency and strong balance sheets essential for survival.
Turkmenistan Goes All In: Central Asia’s “Island” Is Turning Natural Gas Into Bitcoin
Turkmenistan’s 2026 virtual assets law legalizes tightly controlled crypto mining and trading, aiming to monetize surplus gas while preserving state control over money.
Bit Mining Cuts Its Losses and Leaves Latin America: A Mining Giant’s Ruthless Reset for a Harsher New Battlefield
Bit Mining sold its Paraguay farm, completing a $16.5 million Latin America exit to refocus on North American power, Bitcoin mining efficiency and AI/HPC infrastructure.
Hut 8 Borrowed $200 Million Against Its Bitcoin: What Is the Mining Giant Betting On?
Hut 8 expanded its Coinbase Bitcoin-backed credit line to $200 million, highlighting miners’ growing reliance on collateralized lending to fund operations without selling BTC.
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, and No Longer Tolerates “Black Miners”: Up to Five Years in Prison as Russia’s Crypto Mining Compliance Crackdown Begins
Russia proposed criminal penalties for unregistered crypto mining, including heavy fines, forced labor and up to five years in prison for organized or high-income operations.
Backdoor Listing, Stakebuilding and Control: Bitmain’s Big Bet on Cango
EWCL’s $10.5 million Cango stake increase boosts Bitmain-linked voting power as the Bitcoin miner battles losses and pitches an AI compute pivot.
Is Bitmain’s Fire Sale Clearing Inventory, or Planting Landmines?
Bitmain has reportedly slashed prices on high-end Bitcoin mining rigs and bundled hosting deals as rising difficulty and post-halving revenue pressure inventory sales.
Bitcoin Turns Left, Miners Face Death: At $90,000, Digital Gold Becomes a “Death Warrant
Bitcoin miners face a severe profit squeeze around $90,000, but difficulty adjustments and industry consolidation make a true network “death spiral” unlikely.
Leaving Texas, Betting on Ohio: Bitcoin Miners’ Computing Power Gambit
Cipher’s Ohio “Ulysses” acquisition signals a strategic shift from crowded Texas Bitcoin mining toward PJM-powered sites built for AI and high-performance computing demand.
Bitdeer’s “U.S. Factory” Takes Shape: When Crypto Mining Is No Longer Just a Computing Power Game
Bitdeer leased a 188,000-square-foot Nevada factory to scale U.S. SEALMINER production, even as SEAL04 chip delays and investor lawsuits pressure its hardware ambitions.
Tether Executives’ “Financial Engineering”: How Did a $200 Million Mining Farm Quietly End Up in Their Own Pockets?
Tether-linked Northern Data sold its $200 million bitcoin mining unit to companies tied to Tether executives, raising related-party transaction and disclosure concerns.
2026 Bombshell Lands: Medellin, From Drug Capital to Bitcoin’s Shadow King, Rewrites South America’s Crypto Map
Medellin aims to outshine El Salvador’s stalled Bitcoin City by leveraging startups, policy flexibility, Lightning payments and green mining to become a crypto hub in 2026.
World First: Bhutan, the “Land of Happiness,” Bets Its National Fortunes on Crypto, Pledging 10,000 Bitcoins to Build a City
Bhutan plans to use 10,000 bitcoins from its sovereign reserve to fund Gelephu Mindfulness City, a crypto-friendly special economic zone.
Computing Power on Two Fronts: Bitdeer’s Mining Surge Defies the Cycle as Its AI Pivot Rewrites Industry Rules
Bitdeer’s November Bitcoin output tripled year on year as it expands self-mining hashrate and accelerates AI data center and GPU cloud deployments worldwide.
Sangha Opens 20MW Solar Bitcoin Mining Farm in Texas: Is Clean Crypto Mining a Lifeline or a High-Stakes Bet?
Sangha Renewables launched a 20MW solar-backed Bitcoin mining farm in Texas, testing flexible renewable-powered mining despite weak margins and broader industry controversies.
Computing Power Breakout Amid America’s Power Shortage: AI and Bitcoin’s Energy Battle Begins
AI’s soaring power demand is reshaping U.S. energy strategy as tech giants partner with utilities and repurpose crypto mining capacity for data centers.
Stealing Power to Mine Bitcoin? Tajikistan Moves to Impose Up to Eight Years in Prison
Tajikistan passed a bill criminalizing electricity theft for crypto mining, imposing heavy fines and up to eight years in prison amid winter power shortages.
Jensen Huang and Elon Musk Reframe Bitcoin: A New Monetary Shift Powered by Energy
Jensen Huang and Elon Musk frame Bitcoin mining as a way to convert surplus energy into globally transferable digital money resistant to fiat inflation.
MicroBT Launches WhatsMiner M73 Series Hydro-Cooling Mining Rigs in Abu Dhabi to Take On Bitmain’s Antminer S23
MicroBT launched its hydro-cooled WhatsMiner M73 series in Abu Dhabi, challenging Bitmain’s S23 Hyd. with higher overclocked hashrates but weaker energy efficiency.
Malaysia Gets Serious: Air-Ground Task Force Moves to Shut Down 14,000 Bitcoin Mining Rigs
Malaysia formed a joint air-ground task force to shut down 14,000 Bitcoin mining rigs, citing energy security, emissions goals, and gray-market compliance concerns.
Greenidge Sells South Carolina Assets as Bitcoin Mining Leaves Its Wild-Growth Era
Greenidge is selling its remaining Spartanburg land and 60MW power rights, extending its retreat from Bitcoin mining after debt pressure and prior asset sales.
Crypto Legislation Surprise: Turkmenistan Trades Natural Gas for a Ticket to the Digital Age
Turkmenistan will regulate cryptocurrency trading and mining from 2026, using vast natural gas reserves to attract investment while raising environmental and diversification concerns.