Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Becca Bratcher is an author and journalist specializing in crypto. Over the past few years, the United States, specifically Texas, ...

Bitcoin mining is the process that keeps the BTC network secure and operational. Bitcoin (BTC) miners collect pending transactions, bundle them into blocks and repeatedly perform hashing attempts ...

Thirteen years ago today, Bitcoin experienced its first halving event, reducing the miner block reward from the original 50 BTC to 25 BTC. At the same time, a niche trend of solo mining is emerging, ...

More than half of Bitcoin’s global mining network runs on renewable energy — and much of it comes from sources that would otherwise go unused. “More than half of the network is using some type of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Korok Ray is a PhD economist/professor who researches/teaches Bitcoin. Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel once advised future ...

Bitcoin mining stocks and treasury companies often hold significant amounts of the cryptocurrency. This leaves them exposed if the price crashes. Some of these companies even end up outperforming ...

American Bitcoin has expanded its hashrate to 25 EH/s and delivered stronger mining output with improved operational efficiency. Revenue and adjusted EBITDA rose sharply as upgraded S21+ miners ...

Colombian Bitcoin and crypto mining company Horeb Energy reveals 2.5 cents per kWh of green biogas energy in the North Santander region of the Latin American country. The company has achieved energy ...

For long, Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies have tricked their clients with uptime metrics that look at whether a machine is running on power on not instead of checking whether a machine is actually ...

Fans of digital currencies have always touted it as a way to escape the global financial system — and from the powerful interests that control it. Now, in a strange turn of events, these decentralized ...