mining

BAY Miner's AI Mining: Smart Innovation or Risky Bet?

BAY Miner's AI Mining: Smart Innovation or Risky Bet?

The crypto market’s a new and roaring beast. Bitcoin's flirting with phone-number-like valuations, Ethereum's Layer 2s are buzzing, and even Solana's shaking off its past stumbles. Into this churning pit of chaos and deceit trods BAY Miner, offering untold AI-generated cloud mining fortunes. Sounds tempting, doesn't it? A beach vacation...

Bitcoin's Green Mirage Why Promises of Eco-Friendly Mining Fail

Bitcoin's Green Mirage Why Promises of Eco-Friendly Mining Fail

You've heard the promises: Bitcoin, the decentralized digital currency, is going green. As a result, miners are starting to adopt renewable energy. Digging deep, due to new technologies the mining process is more efficient and pretty soon Bitcoin will actually be good for the environment. Sounds great, right? Let's cut...

Bitcoin's Hashrate Plunge: Is This the Dip Before the Party?

Bitcoin's Hashrate Plunge: Is This the Dip Before the Party?

Now, Bitcoin fam, can we keep it a buck for a second? The hashrate definitely dropped out here! A 15% reduction is no small potatoes, particularly following the rollercoaster of volatility and uncertainty we've faced this past year. Before you hit that panic-sell button, let's remember: every epic party has...

Bitcoin's Dirty Secret 5 Ways Mining is Destroying Our Planet

Bitcoin's Dirty Secret 5 Ways Mining is Destroying Our Planet

Picture yourself living beside a huge, loud, hurtful generator. Day in, day out, the clamor doesn’t let up, shaking your windows and robbing you of tranquility. Now, imagine that same generator powering a Bitcoin mine rather than a hospital or school. It uses enough electricity to power your entire city,...

Bitcoin Hashrate Plummets 15%: Is This the Start of a Bear Trend?

Bitcoin Hashrate Plummets 15%: Is This the Start of a Bear Trend?

The Bitcoin network, often lauded for its unbreakable security and decentralized characteristics, recently went through one of these changes. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin Hashrate — a measure of the network’s processing power — has plunged in half. This drop comes after a new all-time high (ATH), set just earlier this month....

5 Reasons Block Reward Mining's AI Pivot is a Win for Everyone

5 Reasons Block Reward Mining's AI Pivot is a Win for Everyone

Look, let’s not kid ourselves, the last few years, the story on block reward mining has been… crazy. With halving events squeezing margins, environmental concerns swirling and the never-ending pressure to stay ahead of what’s next in a hyper-competitive landscape. Well, I’m here to tell you that this is not...

Mining's Great Pivot: AI, Data Centers & the Future of Bitcoin

Mining's Great Pivot: AI, Data Centers & the Future of Bitcoin

That landscape is now experiencing a seismic shift. In short, miners are reacting to increasing competition and regulatory squeeze by expanding their business activities. To address the sustained growth of energy consumption, they are intentionally focusing on high-growth industries like artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. This pivot is not...

Block Reward Mining's AI Gamble Prudence or Peril?

Block Reward Mining's AI Gamble Prudence or Peril?

We’re at a very interesting, and more than a little disconcerting, crossroads in the crypto space. Bitcoin miners, the very foundation of our decentralized utopian dream, are suddenly off in pursuit of the AI dragon. And the question isn’t if they can, but should they? Have we entered an era...

Bitcoin Mine Appeal: Georgia County's $6M Power Bill Gamble – Worth It?

Bitcoin Mine Appeal: Georgia County's $6M Power Bill Gamble – Worth It?

Consider the plight of Pierce County, Georgia. LN8 Energy and landowner Tony Waters want to locate a large Bitcoin mining operation on Cason Road. They apply for a conditional use permit to set up their operation in that space. The Pierce County Commission killed the proposal more than nine months...

Norway's Mining Firm Dives into Bitcoin Brilliant Hedge or Risky Gamble?

Norway's Mining Firm Dives into Bitcoin Brilliant Hedge or Risky Gamble?

Green Minerals, a Norwegian deep-sea mining company, is making headlines – and not only beneath the surface. They’re considering a $1.2 billion Bitcoin treasury, and are claiming diversification and inflation hedging as their justification. That first stock boom was spectacular, but the louder wake-up call is that crash. So is...