Mining

Binance will close Binance Pool and several services related to crypto mining on November 10, 2026, at 07:00 UTC. Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, and Transaction Accelerator will also disappear. The exchange is already asking miners to redirect their machines to another pool. Binance does not give any specific financial or regulatory reason and simply talks about a regular review of its products and services.

Bitcoin mining companies are looking to convert their power sites into data centers for artificial intelligence. This transformation would require nearly 50 billion dollars in the short term, while lenders impose increasingly variable financing conditions.

The Bitcoin network is now less than 80000 blocks away from its fifth halving, expected around April 2028. This milestone will halve the reward given to miners, from 3.125 to 1.5625 bitcoins per block, but its exact date will continue to evolve with the network's production pace.

Bitcoin miners earned about 1.12 billion dollars in September, their best month since January. The BTC rally supported revenues while network difficulty barely moved in its last adjustment. It decreased by only 0.03%, to 132.72 trillion. After several difficult months, conditions are becoming a bit less tense for operators.

Bitcoin miners collected around 1.12 billion dollars in September, their best month since January. The BTC rally supported revenues while the network difficulty barely moved at its last adjustment. It decreased by only 0.03%, to 132.72 trillion. After several tough months, conditions are becoming a little less strained for operators.

Bitcoin briefly crossed its average production cost, estimated at 85000 dollars by JPMorgan, after 280 days below this threshold. This surpass would reduce forced sales by mining specialists, however, the price returning around 84100 dollars makes this relief still uncertain.

Most mining stories begin with a warehouse full of specialized machines and an industrial power contract. Qubic tells another. Here, the computer you already own, a laptop, a desktop, an idle office machine, can join the network today and start earning QUBIC. And instead of burning electricity on puzzles that serve no one, every cycle you provide powers Aigarth research, the open source artificial intelligence built on top of the network. This is the promise of Useful Proof of Work (uPoW): mining that pays you and produces something. This guide is the complete reference: why Qubic mining is truly different, the hardware, a step-by-step installation, the two 2026 updates that changed mining, the miner's progression to validator, a pool comparison, optimization, security, and a glossary.

Zcash mining currently yields much more per unit of electricity than Bitcoin mining. At the beginning of September, an Antminer Z15 Pro generated about 708 dollars in gross revenue per megawatt-hour consumed, compared to 179 dollars for an Antminer S23 Pro dedicated to BTC. The ratio therefore approaches 4 to 1. This figure does not correspond to net profit: electricity, hosting, maintenance, and depreciation still need to be paid. But it is enough to explain why new miners are now looking much more closely at Zcash.

After reaching a peak at the end of 2025, the computing power that secures the Bitcoin network is experiencing an unusual decline. Rapha Zagury, CEO of Twenty One Capital, calls this situation the first "bear market of the hashrate." This decline mainly reflects the deterioration of mining profitability. However, the phenomenon is amplified by artificial intelligence, as many operators are now dedicating their energy infrastructures to long-term computing contracts.

Hut 8 is transforming its Bitcoin-based infrastructures into machines for AI. Its Beacon Point campus in Texas now shows 704 MW of leased capacity for a base contract value of 19.6 billion dollars. Behind the setup are two giants: Nvidia would hold the site lease, while Anthropic has just signed a 35 billion contract with Lambda to use part of this power.

Eric Trump is bragging about fat margins and machines that never clock out, while Forbes claims the real numbers look a lot uglier, leaving the president’s son and his critics in a full-blown Texas-sized brawl over the true cost of mined bitcoin.

BIP 110, a temporary soft fork designed to limit non-financial data recorded on Bitcoin, indeed caused a split at block 961,632. But its branch produced only two blocks in eight hours. The network has just reminded us that a rule without miners remains mostly an intention.

Bitcoin has reached block 961,632, opening the mandatory signaling window of BIP 110. Yet, miner support remains below 3%, far from the 55% threshold required for activation. What happens next will depend on the ability of node operators to enforce their own rules.

200,000 dollars in bitcoin won with a probability of barely 1 in 62,750. A solo miner just defied the statistics during the Coldcard storm, reminding that BTC keeps running, indifferent to security crises. Discover the dizzying figures behind this jackpot and what it reveals about solo mining.

Moscow turns off the lights on crypto miners, preferring to save its watts over its bitcoins. The party's over for Russia's mining industry — time to pack up and move.

Bitcoin mining difficulty dropped by 0.74% at block 959616 this weekend, marking the 15th adjustment of 2026. In the first seven months, decreases outnumber increases by a ratio of 3 to 2. This self-regulation mechanism tells of an industry facing increasing pressure.

Bitcoin miners could sign the equivalent of 150 billion dollars in contracts thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence. According to Bernstein, the global shortage of electricity and data centers is pushing AI giants to seek partners capable of quickly providing computing power. The infrastructures built for bitcoin are thus becoming strategic assets far beyond crypto.

A tiny $150 box just turned into $200,000 for its owner. Proof that bitcoin mining remains a lottery where anyone can hit the jackpot.

The Bitcoin protocol has just activated one of the most powerful self-regulation mechanisms in its recent history, profoundly changing the financial balances of mining operators. While the sector has been continuously eroding its margins since the beginning of the year, this algorithm update comes at a critical time when the economic survival of mining facilities depends on the smallest fraction of a dollar.

Bitcoin miners are racing into AI, but insider sales, governance questions and a $50 billion financing gap raise fresh concerns. Decode.

Bitcoin miners watch their hashprice plummet like a failed soufflé, while difficulty spikes without mercy. What a contradiction—and yet, they hold their ground.

Alert on the Bitcoin network! According to a JPMorgan report, 20% of miners are currently operating at a loss. With an average production cost estimated at $78,000 and a pressured price, has capitulation started? Here is an update.

The intersection of traditional finance, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology has just reached a historic milestone, thereby definitively redefining the contours of the global computer industry. While financial markets closely scrutinize the allocation of technological capital, it is now the cash flows of silicon giants that play the main role of catalyst in the diversification strategies of actors in the crypto sphere. Today this dynamic is propelled to the forefront of economic news by a financial operation of unprecedented scale by the undisputed leader of graphics chips Nvidia. The company's decision to raise massive funds to expand its infrastructure spectacularly validates the operational shift initiated by the largest crypto mining farm operators.

The most significant movements in the Bitcoin network are not always visible on price charts. Some are directly part of the mechanisms that ensure its daily operation. This is what we observe with the difficulty adjustment expected in the coming hours, a rare event that reflects the tensions currently affecting the mining industry. While operators see their profitability degrade with the drop in bitcoin, the protocol is about to experience one of the largest difficulty corrections in recent years.

While bitcoin is still on a rollercoaster, miners quietly open a new vault. Behind the servers and megawatts, AI giants now come to claim their loot.

Bitcoin miners' stocks are rising because the market no longer sees them only as BTC producers. It now values them as holders of electricity, land, data centers, and capacities useful to artificial intelligence. This change explains the recent interest around TeraWulf, Hut 8, IREN, or Riot Platforms, in a context where Wall Street remains driven by AI and semiconductors.

While Nvidia builds cathedrals for artificial intelligence, bitcoin miners bring out their secret plans. Wall Street applauds weakly, then discreetly recounts the cracks under the global digital foundations.

While bitcoin plunges down the mountain like an old tired gondola, Marathon quietly sells its digital treasure to fuel its artificial intelligence dreams and avoid a nasty industrial slide now visible everywhere.