North America is becoming a less dominant force in the Bitcoin mining industry, ceding newly minted BTC to adversaries like ...

Companies are looking to repurpose heat generated by Bitcoin mining into something useful. Is it safe to dip your toes in ...

Two solo Bitcoin miners struck rare wins this week, each earning nearly $300,000 as U.S. mining dominance continues to slip.

Large-scale cryptocurrency firms, including companies founded in Maryland, are repurposing their frameworks into data centers ...

Data suggests that fears about Xinjiang-related Bitcoin mining have overstated the impact, with hashrate losses proving brief and driven partly by US power curtailments. Recent claims of a major ...

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty is once again edging closer to uncharted territory as the network prepares for its first adjustment of 2026. Bitcoin’s mining difficulty is likely to rise again in January ...

Bitcoin has often surged after sustained hashrate drops, a trend that would provide much-needed relief to many struggling Bitcoin miners at current prices. Bitcoin’s hashrate fell 4% over the month to ...

The owner of a former bitcoin mining company in Philadelphia allegedly stole more than $48.5 million from investors in a scheme that promised "passive income" for supporters of the firm's ...

Bitcoin mining firm Hut 8 is the latest crypto infrastructure company to lock in large-scale, Google-backed financing, as miners increasingly pivot toward artificial intelligence data centers to ...

Bitcoin mining in 2026 looks very different from what it was a few years ago. Rising mining difficulty, expensive ASIC machines, and high electricity costs have pushed most individual investors away ...

In June, WSJ’s Joanna Stern headed inside a data center to show just how much energy it takes to make an AI image and video. Photo: David Hall It’s harder than ever to mine bitcoin. And less ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Korok Ray is a PhD economist/professor who researches/teaches Bitcoin. Bitcoin mining looks like a heavy industrial process—rows ...