Iran Shuts Down Over 8,000 Illegal Crypto Mining Farms in 3 Années

Authorities in Iran have closed down more than 8,000 underground facilities for cryptocurrency mining in the past three years, local media reported. Despite the government’s crackdown, illegal crypto mining continues to account for a serious amount of energy consumption, official figures

Achats Cleanspark 45,000 Appareils miniers Bitcoin, Ajouter 6.3 EH/s vers la flotte actuelle

BK, la société minière Bitcoin Cleanspark a annoncé avoir acheté 45,000 Appareils miniers Bitcoin Antminer S19 XP pour un prix total de $144.9 million. Cleanspark a déclaré que la nouvelle flotte ajouterait 6.3 exahash par seconde (EH/s) de calcul…

ESG Analyst Daniel Batten Reveals Dynamic Charts Showing Bitcoin’s 52.6% Sustainable Energy Use

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) analyst Daniel Batten said Tuesday that the computational backbone of the Bitcoin network now uses 52.6% sustainable energy. Batten and onchain analyst Willy Woo created Dynamic Bitcoin ESG Charts to showcase the protocol’s progress. Contrary to

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Reaches All-Time High as Miners Face Second-Largest Increase This Year

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty reached an all-time high (ATH) on Feb. 24, 2023, at block height #778,176, atteindre 43.05 trillion hashes and surpassing the 40 trillion mark for the first time ever. The networks difficulty increased by 9.95%, which is the second-largest

Former Cohasset High School Employee Accused of Stealing Thousands in Electricity to Mine Bitcoin in School Campus Crawlspace

A former school assistant facilities director in Cohasset, Massachusetts, has been accused of operating a cryptocurrency mining operation inside a crawlspace at Cohasset High School. The Cohasset Police Department alleges that Nadeam Nahas stole nearly $18,000 in electricity to power the

Paraguay to Become Top Bitcoin Mining Hub in Latam According to Insight Group

Paraguay, one of the smallest countries in Latam, has the conditions needed to become the next Bitcoin mining hub in the region, according to mining insight group Hashrate Index. The company notes there are many elements in favor of Paraguay, comprenant…

Debate Intensifies Over Significance and Implications of Ordinal Inscriptions on Bitcoin Blockchain

During the past two weeks, members of the cryptocurrency community have discussed the non-fungible token (TVN) concept known as Ordinals. Since the 3.96 MB block (#774,628) was mined, there has been a significant increase in Ordinal inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain….

GAIMIN propose une approche décentralisée face à l'exigence croissante d'une plus grande puissance de traitement des données

La demande mondiale en traitement de données augmente d'année en année, avec des applications de traitement de données nécessitant des performances toujours croissantes des dispositifs et services de traitement de données. les industries, comme l'Intelligence Artificielle (IA), rendu vidéo, alimenter les calculs de la blockchain, simulations et recherches scientifiques, financial modeling and

Iran Returns Seized Crypto Mining Equipment to Miners

A government body responsible for state property in Iran has released some of the hardware seized from illegal crypto mining farms. Its top executive explained the agency was obliged to do that by courts in the Islamic Republic, where unlicensed miners

Au milieu de la forte demande énergétique des mineurs, La Russie envisage de construire de nouvelles centrales électriques en Sibérie

Growing electricity consumption in the crypto mining sector may require the construction of new power generation facilities in Siberia, the energy minister of Russia has acknowledged. Demand continues to increase in residential areas as well, after regional authorities abandoned a proposal