Category: Mining Week

A budding movement within the crypto industry says it can keep carbon out of the atmosphere by locking it on a blockchain. Can it succeed?

The high percentage of hashrate now located in North America may look like China 2.0, but the reality is more complicated.

As they decarbonize, crypto companies might help push energy producers to build more renewable power sources.

Web 3 will require the creation of a new structure of hardware, custom-built for the rapidly growing needs of the software.

In the pursuit of economic sustainability, northern Italian hydropower producers are turning to bitcoin mining.

In the pursuit of economic sustainability, northern Italian hydropower producers are turning to bitcoin mining.

Here are some of the innovative and sometimes hilarious functions bitcoin miners have found for their rigs.

Specialization is necessary but Bitcoiners and miners need to learn to listen to each other, says Will Foxley, Director of Content at Compass Mining.

Ideological arguments over proof-of-work and proof-of-stake miss the larger point: Mining means the production of objective truth, says futurist Dan Jeffries. This post is part of CoinDesk’s Mining Week.

Responsibility for Ethereum’s climate impact lies with institutions, not individuals, argues the emissions dashboard creator.

To finance equipment in a down market, firms will have to look beyond stock issuance. They may have to borrow against their machines or mined crypto or put themselves up for sale.

It’s been a rollercoaster year for Bitcoin and Ethereum mining: Here is what the data shows.

Cloud vendors are fighting back against cryptojacking, but the hijackers are getting more sophisticated.

Even though mining margins have shrunk since crypto prices corrected, for now they’re big enough to keep luring entrants from sectors like prepackaged food and anti-aging formulas.

China’s two biggest cloud mining platforms plan to go public on the Nasdaq via SPAC deals this year, at a time when cryptocurrency and broader markets have pulled back from their peaks.

A proposed change to Bitcoin called ‘Optical proof-of-work’ would improve geographic distribution of hashrate and quell fears of climate-related pushback, proponents argue.

As clean energy gradually gets cheaper, mining operations will help subsidize green projects, writes the CEO of mining firm CleanSpark. This op-ed is part of CoinDesk’s Mining Week.

How a European war made an argument about mining moot. This op-ed is part of Mining Week.

Even with the surge in popularity, home mining only accounts for a skinny slice of the industry’s overall pie.