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Hut 8 Secures $9.8 Billion Texas AI Lease as Bitcoin Miners Pivot to Compute
21.7.2026
Hut 8 has signed a second 15-year lease for 352 megawatts of AI capacity at its Beacon Point campus in Texas. The deal doubles the tenant’s commitment and highlights a wider shift by bitcoin miners toward long-term data center contracts. Hut 8 Doubles Beacon Point Tenant Footprint With a Second...
IREN Lands $2.8B in AI Contracts as Demand Pushes Target Above $4B
21.7.2026
IREN has raised its year-end AI Cloud annualized revenue target to more than $4 billion after signing new multi-year contracts with major AI developers. Microsoft and NVIDIA Help IREN Lock 85% of its New $4B AI Revenue Target IREN has increased its year-end AI Cloud annualized run-rate revenue...
This Group of Four Now Dominates Over 70% of a Key Blockchain Resource
19.7.2026
Four Bitcoin mining pools, Foundry Digital, AntPool, ViaBTC, and F2Pool, controlled more than 70% of the network’s hashrate as of a June 23, 2026 snapshot from miningpoolstats.stream. The concentration is increasingly described as a two-tier market favoring institutional clients, prompting...
Cleanspark Lands $6.6B AI Lease as 20-Year Deal Reshapes Bitcoin Mining Strategy
16.7.2026
Cleanspark has signed a 20-year triple-net lease at its Sandersville, Georgia, campus, expected to generate $6.6 billion in contracted revenue. The tenant has also secured exclusivity over Cleanspark’s 885 MW Texas portfolio, signaling a broader artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure...
Bitcoin’s Lottery Jackpot: Solo Home Miner Wins $200,000 With a $150 Mining Device
13.7.2026
A hobbyist running a single Bitaxe device just won Bitcoin’s biggest lottery. On July 9, 2026, at approximately 03:30 UTC, a solo miner using a palm-sized Bitaxe device mined block 957382 through Public Pool, claiming the full 3.1382 BTC block reward. That includes the 3.125 BTC subsidy plus...
Bitcoin’s 14th Difficulty Reset Slashes Mining Pressure by 6.7 Trillion
12.7.2026
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty fell 5% on July 11, dropping to 127.17 trillion in the network’s 14th adjustment of 2026 and pulling the metric closer to its low for the year. The adjustment landed at block height 957600. Difficulty moved from 133.87 trillion to 127.17 trillion, a decline of roughly...
‘Bitcoin Is Over’: Former Meta and Google Engineer Warns of Quantum and Miner Time Bombs Affecting BTC
11.7.2026
Patrick Shyu, the former Meta and Google engineer known online as Techlead, warns that quantum computing and decaying miner incentives are two undefused threats hanging over Bitcoin. A Warning Worth Heeding Shyu, who served as a tech lead at Google and later as a staff software engineer at Meta...
Terawulf and Anthropic Sign 20-Year AI Data Center Lease Worth $19 Billion
8.7.2026
Terawulf has signed a 20-year AI infrastructure lease with Anthropic, expected to generate about $19 billion in contracted revenue. Terawulf Advances AI Strategy With Anthropic Lease and Texas Asset Sale Terawulf is reshaping its data center strategy around large-scale artificial intelligence (AI)...
Grid Alerts Threaten Crypto: How 100-Degree Temps Impacted Bitcoin Mining
7.7.2026
Triple-digit temperatures and soaring wholesale electricity prices reportedly squeezed U.S. bitcoin mining operations. High Prices Trigger Miner Curtailments A record-setting heat dome that recently blanketed the eastern United States and forced the U.S. Department of Energy to issue emergency...
Bitcoin Miner Stress Hits ‘Historically Rare’ Level as 20% of Miners Operate at a Loss
7.7.2026
Bitcoin’s Miner Cycle Stress Composite has fallen to a new 2026 low and entered its “undervalued” range, a synchronized decline previously seen only near the market’s major bottoms in 2015, 2018 and 2020. The reading arrives with bitcoin trading near $63,800 and nearly one in five miners producing...
SBI Crypto Pulls the Plug on Bitcoin Pool as 20,412 PH/s Hunts for a New Home
2.7.2026
SBI Crypto is shutting down its bitcoin mining pool, closing out more than five years of operation on July 31, 2026. The company launched the pool in March 2021 as part of SBI Holdings’ push into digital assets. Today it sits between the 10th and 11th largest Bitcoin mining pool by hashrate...
American Bitcoin Shrinks Float 93% as Reverse Split Takes Effect Thursday
1.7.2026
American Bitcoin Corp. will complete a 1-for-15 reverse stock split after markets close on Thursday, cutting its outstanding share count by more than 90%. Split Takes Effect This Week The Nasdaq-listed miner, trading under the ticker ABTC, disclosed that the split becomes effective at 5 p.m....
Miners Absorb 18% Hashprice Crash as Bitcoin Difficulty Jumps 7.15%
27.6.2026
Bitcoin’s difficulty climbed sharply this week, rising 7.15% and notching the second-largest upward adjustment of the year. Although the network has recorded six increases in 2026, downward adjustments have remained the prevailing theme. The Screws Tighten Onchain data shows that on June 26, 2026...
August Timeline Puts Bitcoin BIP-110 Signaling and Paul Sztorc’s Hard Fork in Focus
22.6.2026
Bitcoin is approaching a compressed August 2026 window in which BIP-110’s mandatory signaling mechanics are scheduled to arrive shortly before Paul Sztorc’s planned eCash hard fork target, placing two separate protocol events on nearly the same timetable. The first event is BIP-110, also known...
Gomining’s Kirill Solovev Says Bitcoin Mining Trades at a Discount, Urges New Payment Rails
20.6.2026
As Bitcoin miners are increasingly monetizing their power allocations and cooling infrastructure for artificial intelligence, Gomining founder Kirill Solovev argues that pure-play infrastructure remains severely undervalued. The AI Pivot and Network Resilience The migration of public Bitcoin miners...
A Second Nation Just Built a State Bitcoin Mining Pool — Oman’s Omanhash.om Redraws the Map
17.6.2026
Oman has launched a mandatory national bitcoin mining pool, requiring every licensed cryptocurrency miner in the Sultanate to route its hashrate through a single state-backed platform. The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT) unveiled Omanhash.om on June...
Bitcoin Difficulty Drops 10% to Lowest Level Since July 2025 as Hashrate Cools
14.6.2026
This week, Bitcoin’s difficulty epoch at block height 953568 delivered the year’s second-steepest downward adjustment to date. Following this weekend’s recalibration and looking ahead to the next two weeks, the latest difficulty reading of 124.93 trillion now stands as the lowest level recorded...
Expert Flags Bitcoin’s First Hashrate Bear Market as Network Sheds 145 EH/s
8.6.2026
With bitcoin prices sliding to levels not witnessed since February, the network’s hashrate has undergone a steep contraction, with 145 exahash per second (EH/s) exiting the system since the close of May. Hashprice Falls 27% in 30 Days as Miner Revenue Tightens Bitcoin’s computational strength...
Hut 8 Prices $4.25B Notes to Build 352MW Texas AI Data Center
7.6.2026
Hut 8 has priced $4.25 billion of senior secured notes to finance a large artificial intelligence (AI) data center project in Texas. The deal marks another major step in the company’s shift from bitcoin mining toward power-backed digital infrastructure. Hut 8 Raises $4.25B to Expand...
Sugarcane-Powered Bitcoin Mine to Launch in Brazil With Tether Backing
5.6.2026
The project, managed by Adecoagro, an agricultural powerhouse, will constitute one of the first initiatives of its kind in Latam. Matheus Lechuga, project manager at Adecoagro, stated that at this first stage, the company seeks to achieve energy efficiency. Tether-owned Adecoagro to Pilot...