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The ongoing battle between the co-founders at Bitmain has now essentially hard forked the world’s largest bitcoin miner manufacturer into two different operations and supply chains for making its flagship AntMiner equipment. Wu Jihan, the co-founder who ousted his rival co-founder Micree Zhan Ketuan last year, registered a new entity on
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Onchain data shows that bitcoin miners are hoarding despite the 50% loss in revenue that started on May 11, during the third reward halving. The seven-day average of bitcoin miners’ outflow volume and mining funds sent to exchanges remains significantly low.Roughly four weeks ago on June 19, the total
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Following the Bitcoin halving, concerns over miner capitulation have proven unfounded. The week just gone saw the network hash rate reach a new all-time high of 125 million TH/s.Source: blockchain.comSignificant pullbacks occurred in March and May, sparking fears of the beginning of a miner’s exodus. Current data shows the Bitcoin
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Directors of Canaan Creative, a publicly listed bitcoin miner manufacturer, were suddenly dropped from the company’s business registry, prompting speculation of a power grab. DisclosureThe leader in blockchain news, CryptoX is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CryptoX
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Hut 8 Mining Corp. has raised $8.3 million from the sale of 6% of its shares to investors. The Canadian bitcoin miner originally intended to raise $7.5 million from the sale, but it was oversubscribed.Totonto Stock Exchange-listed Hut 8 issued about 5.8 million “units” at a price of $1.45
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Miner Hut 8 said last week it had raised a total of $8.3 million from selling a 6% equity stake to investors, approximately $800,000 more than the original $7.5 million funding target. The Toronto-listed mining company says the funding will keep it competitive as smaller entities with older equipment feel
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U.S. contract mining firm Core Scientific has agreed on a deal to buy 17,600 mining rigs from Chinese bitcoin hardware maker Bitmain Technologies Inc.The company is buying Bitmain’s next-generation bitcoin (BTC) miner, the Antminer S19, it said in a statement on June 29. The miners will be fully installed
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One of the major manufacturers bitcoin mining equipment hopes launching its own exchange could double total revenue by 2022. In an interview with Bloomberg BNN, CFO Chen Lei confirmed the Hangzhou-based Ebang was planning to launch a regulatory-compliant crypto exchange that would strictly operate outside of China, where the government
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Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen is trying to stop Canadian bitcoin miner DMG Blockchain from plugging its mining rigs into the American power grid. In a letter published Thursday, the nonprofit implored the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to scrutinize, if not outright reject, DMG Blockchain’s bid to export U.S. electricity
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On June 16, 2020, Bitmex researchers published a report that noted bitcoin mining rig manufacturers have consolidated a great deal and in the future, Bitmex researchers predict that “only 2 to 3 players will survive into the longer term.” There’s still a number of SHA256 mining rig manufacturers today,
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