Bitcoin difficulty just reset about 15% higher to roughly 144.40T. While this is neither the first nor the last, it is the largest since around 2021. The timing is important because the protocol tightened miner economics while Bitcoin has been chopping around the mid-$60,000s with repeated tests near $65,000. When blocks arrive faster than the […]
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A Bitcoin developer embedded a 66-kilobyte image inside a single transaction without using OP_RETURN or Taproot. The transaction followed consensus rules. Anyone can verify the bytes using standard node software. Martin Habovštiak didn't do this to make art, but to prove that closing one data doorway doesn't remove the capability, it just changes where bytes […]
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Public Bitcoin miners collectively held 115,335 BTC as of Feb. 20, worth roughly $7.4 billion at the recent price, but that treasury dropped 4.44% month-over-month, the first sustained contraction since miners began stockpiling coins as balance-sheet assets. The decline wasn't an accident. Riot Platforms sold 1,818 BTC in December 2025 for $161.6 million in net […]
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On Feb. 20, Brazil's foreign trade council published a technical resolution reducing import duties to zero for a narrow class of hardware: SHA256 Bitcoin miners exceeding 200 terahashes per second with energy efficiency below 20 joules per terahash. Three days later, French state-owned energy giant Engie told Reuters it was considering installing Bitcoin miners at […]
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The deal was funded through the issuance of Canaan shares valued at roughly $39.75 million, making Cipher a significant shareholder.
Bitdeer, the largest Bitcoin mining company by hashrate, wiped its BTC ledger clean this week. Its corporate Bitcoin treasury now shows 0 BTC as the company sold 189.8 newly mined BTC and pulled 943.1 BTC from reserves. A mining business usually carries Bitcoin like pressure in a pipe, some flows out as revenue, some stays […]
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As Bitcoin mining gets more expensive around the world, one country stands out for the opposite reason: Iran. In early 2026, the estimated cost to mine one Bitcoin in Iran is around $1,320. At the same time, Bitcoin is trading near $68,000. That huge gap has sparked talk of a possible 50x return compared to …
Bitcoin just got ~15% harder to mine as hashrate falls—pushing miner revenue back into the $30 stress zone Bitcoin’s mining economy has tightened again, but its undertones could pave the way for a price recovery in the top crypto. Over the past weeks, the network difficulty jumped, while the hashrate has shown signs of softening. […]
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Last August, Bloomberg reported MARA would pay $168 million in cash to secure a 64% stake in Exaion from EDF Pulse Ventures.
Bitdeer plans $300 million convertible note offering to expand high-performance computing; shares drop 18%, down 37% this month.
Bitcoin developer contributors just cleared a documentation hurdle that crypto Twitter treated like an emergency quantum patch. It wasn't. On Feb. 11, a proposal for a new output type, Pay-to-Merkle-Root (BIP-0360), was merged into the official Bitcoin Improvement Proposals repository. No nodes upgraded. No activation timeline exists. The BIPs repository itself warns that publication doesn't […]
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Bitcoin's mining difficulty decreased by 11.16% to approximately 125.86 trillion at the most recent retarget boundary around block 935,424. That marks the largest negative adjustment since the 2021 China mining ban, the sixth consecutive downward retarget, and the tenth largest negative adjustment in Bitcoin's history. However, difficulty adjustments are lagging indicators, as they reflect what […]
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Bitcoin’s price story lately has been told like it only has one main character, the ETFs. Money goes in, price goes up, money goes out, price goes down. It’s a clean narrative, and it’s not wrong, but it’s incomplete, because Bitcoin is not just a ticker. The network has its own internal plumbing, and some […]
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The network's hashrate has dropped about 20% over the past month as bitcoin's price collapsed and Winter Storm Fern forced widespread miner shutdowns.
Trader Plan C recently surfaced a chart indicating a production-cost model placing Bitcoin's marginal mining expense at approximately $67,000, with historical price action showing repeated bounces off that red line. He added that “commodities rarely trade below their cost of production.” The hook is clean, the logic is intuitive, but the reality beneath Bitcoin's latest […]
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Big Tech companies' planned $500 billion war chest to dominate artificial intelligence could offer a lifeline to a Bitcoin mining industry teetering on the edge of capitulation. The headline numbers are eye-watering. Alphabet, Google’s parent, alone plans to spend as much as $185 billion this year. However, the capital surge will involve more than buying […]
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Bitcoin miners IREN and Cleanspark reported quarterly earnings Thursday afternoon, with both firms missing analysts' estimates.
Cipher shares closed down 12.36% on Wednesday amid a continuing selloff in crypto tokens and equities, despite the outsized interest.
While price action has always been volatile and, arguably, exciting, the Bitcoin network itself is built to feel boring. Ten minutes per block, tick tock, rinse and repeat, a metronome you can set your watch to. Then every so often, it gets very human again. Early this morning, block production slowed enough that the average […]
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The euphoria of October’s record highs has evaporated, leaving the industrial backbone of the Bitcoin network facing a brutal reality check. According to CryptoSlate's data, Bitcoin is currently trading near $78,000, a level that represents a punishing decline of more than 38% from its all-time high of over $126,000 just four months ago. While casual […]
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Bitcoin supply guide: cost-basis bands, miner stress, and ETF flow signals Bitcoin is currently trading outside a $93,000–$110,000 cost-basis band that Glassnode frames as an “overhead supply” zone. That setup puts the next quarter’s supply story on miner cash flow and holder behavior rather than the issuance schedule. According to Glassnode’s Week On-chain W02 2026, […]
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The company said it has acquired brownfield infrastructure sites in both Kentucky and Maryland in order to grow power capacity.
Tether has officially entered the Bitcoin mining infrastructure space with the launch of MiningOS (MOS), an open-source operating system designed to simplify, enhance transparency, and scale Bitcoin mining. The stablecoin issuer states that the move is designed to lower entry barriers for miners and promote greater decentralization across the Bitcoin network. Ending Reliance on Closed …
Bitcoin miner profitability has been on a multi-year decline as network hashpower continues to push to new highs, The Block data shows.
Earlier this week, a sweeping US winter storm pushed Bitcoin miners to curtail, pulling a noticeable chunk of computing power off the network in a short window. Data shows a 40% dip in hashrate between Jan. 23 and Jan. 25, with around 455 EH/s going offline, and block production slowing to around 12 minutes for […]
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Bit Digital entered the bitcoin mining business in 2020 and was an early diversifier into the HPC/AI sector.
A fierce winter storm that swept much of the US over the weekend forced large parts of the Bitcoin mining fleet to cut power, leaving the network much weaker for a short time. Related Reading: Bitcoin Whales Are Back: 104K BTC Added As $1M Transfers Surge Reports say power outages and extreme weather pushed some operators to pause or slow their rigs so local grids could breathe. The result was a dramatic, though temporary, fall in the total mining power securing the blockchain. Miners Adjust Power Use According to mining operators on the ground, the pause was intentional. Many farms turned down machines to reduce strain on regional utilities when demand spiked and generation dropped. Abundant Mines, a crypto mining firm headquartered in Oregon, said roughly 40% of global mining capacity went offline in a 24-hour window. That kind of quick scaling back is possible because miners can shut down and restart hardware rapidly, which in some regions acts like a big, flexible electrical load that can be trimmed when needed. Bitcoin Hashrate Just Dropped Below 700 EH/s The likely cause: the winter storm impacting Texas & the southeast, where a large share of US mining happens. Power outages and voluntary grid-stabilization measures have taken miners offline. What this means: – Fewer miners online… pic.twitter.com/j0lv7bU9JN — Abundant Mines (@AbundantMines) January 25, 2026 Hashrate Drop And Quick Recovery Based on reports from mining trackers, network hashrate fell sharply starting Friday and hit a low not seen in seven months by Sunday, dropping to about 663 EH/s. Within a day or so, as crews worked and weather systems moved on, the figure climbed back toward 854 EH/s. Hashrate Index estimates the US supplies nearly 38% of worldwide mining power, so disruptions in the country show up fast in global totals. A federal Energy Information Administration report noted there are more than 130 dedicated crypto mining sites across the US, meaning storms that affect broad regions can hit mining supply in a big way. Bitcoin Price Action Price moved with the headlines but not in a straight line. Based on reports, Bitcoin traded around $88,300 through the volatility, with swings linked to both weather and wider geopolitical strains. BTCUSD now trading at 87,866. Chart: TradingView The market had earlier seen lifts up near $96,000 during episodes of geopolitical tension, while other stretches brought softer prices as macro risks grew. Traders watched carefully; the temporary hashrate dip raised questions about short-term miner revenue, yet it did not trigger a major crash in market value. As the winter storm hits the US, Bitcoin mining companies curtail operations to support the power grid. Their daily Bitcoin production was hit significantly in the last few days. CLSK: 22 bitcoin –> 12 Bitcoin RIOT: 16 –> 3 MARA: 45 –> 7 (more volatile as it mines “solo”)… pic.twitter.com/SzgcbtgQ5V — Julio Moreno (@jjcmoreno) January 26, 2026 Big Miners Felt The Impact Analytics firms noted output from some big US miners fell sharply. Marathon Digital’s daily production was down from 45 coins to seven in one day, and IREN moved from 18 to six, data compiled by market trackers showed. Related Reading: XRP Showing Strength, Analyst Points To $4 Potential CryptoQuant flagged slower daily digs from several major operators as the storm hit. In Texas, reports say miners worked with grid managers to help balance supply and demand, using their machines to soak up extra power when available and to step back when the grid was under strain. Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView
One thing we rarely think about is how bad weather can affect Bitcoin's security, but it happens fairly regularly. Snow can legitimately pose a risk to Bitcoin miners who secure the blockchain. The snow shows up on the weather map first, a fat smear of color stretching across state lines. Then it turns into the […]
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A U.S. winter storm has seen many bitcoin miners curtail operations, slashing Foundry USA pool’s hashrate and slowing block production.
Bitcoin mining difficulty set for a 4% decline, the seventh negative adjustment in the past eight.