France is set to take an even bolder step. Put aside the old tropes of Bitcoin as an energy glutton. French legislators recently tabled a proposal for a thorough analysis of how Bitcoin mining can best serve to improve their national energy grid. I'm not talking small tweaks, folks. This...
Here’s how and why Pakistan is jumping in with both feet on crypto and AI. Their audacious actions are making huge tsunamis across the world. 2000 megawatts. And that’s what they’re directing toward Bitcoin mining and AI data centers. Two thousand megawatts. Time will tell whether this is indeed the...
France, a major producer and exporter of electricity in Europe, is contemplating tapping into the potential of Bitcoin mining to smoothen its power grid. As a nation largely dependent on nuclear power, Japan creates frequent electricity surpluses as a result of its nuclear-heavy energy infrastructure. In France, lawmakers have introduced...
The DeFi world moves fast. One minute, everyone’s shouting “decentralization,” the next, the institutions are at the door. We’re thrilled about the partnership between Maple Finance and Lido Finance. Combined, they provide stables credit lines secured by stETH! Sounds fancy, right? To know if this is a real leap forward,...
Five billion dollars. Some $1 billion+ in annual taxpayer giveaways… That’s a pretty big pile of taxpayer dollars, even by the wild west standards of crypto. Update on DFDV’s own capital raising DFDV has recently closed an equity line with RK Capital Management. With this deal, Jump has injected the...
Osage, Iowa, may not be a familiar name to many outside the Midwest. It is ground zero in an important fight that embodies not just the future of cryptocurrency, but our ability to welcome and adapt to disruptive innovation. Infographic courtesy of Simple Mining Simple Mining is planning to develop...
Bitcoin mining. The phrase conjures images of futuristic server farms humming with digital energy, or maybe just the headache-inducing screech of cooling fans. Now, picture that in Osage, Iowa. Regardless of their intentions, Simple Mining still needs to build this facility and the community is rightfully cautious. Are their fears...
Bitdeer is making waves, no doubt. Their May 2025 self-mined Bitcoin numbers are jaw-dropping, 196 BTC, totaling more than $21 million! Further, the Bitcoin hashrate has grown to an all-time high of 13.6 EH/s, a tremendous achievement. And 40 EH/s by October 2025? Ambitious. Let’s take a step back and...
You think you've seen it all, right? Another day, another Trump headline. But this isn’t your ordinary, run-of-the-mill scandal. It’s a shortsighted and self-serving action that deliberately erodes the very pillars of our democracy and exacerbates the climate emergency. And quite frankly, it ought to make your blood boil.1. Meme...
Ethiopia is rapidly positioning itself as a leader in the global Bitcoin mining industry. By continuing to leverage the country’s wealth of renewable energy resources, the country is luring investment and propelling economic growth. Today, Ethiopia has a relatively modest share of the global Bitcoin hash rate—around 2.5%—but it is...
Bit Digital is betting the farm. They’re promoting the sale of these shovels in order to purchase the lottery tickets. They're ditching Bitcoin mining, the digital equivalent of the California gold rush, for Ethereum staking, which, let's be honest, sounds a lot less rugged and a lot more…regulated. Whether this...
Alright, let’s be real. When I first learned that Bit Digital was abandoning Bitcoin mining in favor of Ethereum staking, I have to admit my first response was dubious. A company that’s been foundational to the build out… suddenly bailing? It sounded crazy. The further I dug, the more apparent...
The buzz is building. Look out BTC, altcoin ETFs are on their way! The SEC seems to be getting a little more friendly towards it, especially with regards to Solana. We're seeing applications amended, deadlines looming, and even whispers of BlackRock jumping into the XRP game after the Ripple case...
Let's be blunt. The Bitcoin gold rush? It’s increasingly shaping up to be a fool’s errand come 2025. This really is more than a small blip in profitability. That is a dramatic and potentially catastrophic turn in the risk-reward equation. The shiny allure of digital gold is masking a growing...
Tired of the 9-to-5 grind? Tired of the idea that your wealth is in the hands of people you can’t even influence? Let me tell you a secret: Bitcoin mining might just be your escape hatch. I know, I know, this sounds like something only tech sorcerers can comprehend, but...
The air is just crackling with excitement, right? Or maybe that’s just the Crypto Summer 2.0 that you can almost taste on the horizon. Forget the lukewarm spring we just had. This is about to be a full-blown heatwave, fueled by something even more potent than Bitcoin: Altcoins. And what's...
Bitcoin mining, which serves as the infrastructure for the world’s first and most well-known cryptocurrency, remains one of the hottest topics in cryptocurrency today. This process, which is critical for transaction validation and new bitcoin issuance, requires miners to solve tricky math equations. While important to its overall security and...
CleanSpark's recent headlines are hard to ignore: 685 Bitcoin mined in a single month, $61 million in revenue, and a hashrate reaching 50 EH/s. They have a Bitcoin treasury that makes them the seventh largest company by market capitalization — as publicly traded companies go. Before we hand them the...