Police raided an illegal Bitcoin mining factory stealing electricity in Thailand. Cops and electricity officials descended on the three-storey building where dozens of energy-intensive crypto mining ...

Bitcoin miners don't solve complex math problems - they guess numbers. While "solving mathematical puzzles" has become a common description of bitcoin mining, the process more closely resembles a ...

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 ...

What if renewable energy companies mined bitcoin? That's essentially the question that Spencer Marr, the charismatic 37-year-old president of bitcoin BTC $87,400.28 mining firm Sangha Renewables, ...

Solo mining involves an individual miner independently validating Bitcoin transactions and adding new blocks to the blockchain without collaborating with others in a mining pool. This process requires ...

Difficulty adjustments every 2,016 blocks help maintain a consistent 10-minute block time, preventing rapid inflation and network overload. In October 2024, Bitcoin mining difficulty hit a record high ...

Luxor Technology wants to make bitcoin mining easier. That’s why the firm has rolled out a panoply of products (mining pools, hashrate derivatives, data analytics, ASIC brokerage) to help bitcoin ...

Some Bitcoin mining companies are turning away from cryptocurrency and embracing artificial intelligence. NPR's "The Indicator" podcast explains why. There is a big shift happening in the world of ...

Bitcoin cloud mining platforms have become a popular alternative to traditional cryptocurrency mining, allowing users to mine Bitcoin without investing in expensive hardware or dealing with the ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever wondered how Bitcoin actually works—beyond the price charts and celebrity tweets—this one's for you. "Bitcoin mining is like a big guessing game on computers," Holmes explained. "People ...