As AI companies work furiously to improve the intelligence and usefulness of their products, their demand for cheap, plentiful energy has skyrocketed. This gold rush has been extremely profitable for ...

Until now, every Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) that needed cryptographic primitives had to reinvent the wheel. Each one came bundled with its own custom Python implementation of the secp256k1 ...

The use of hydrocarbon fuels in Bitcoin mining has seen a sharp decline over the past 13 years, with the use of coal energy dropping significantly. The share of coal energy use in Bitcoin (BTC) mining ...

CIFR basically integrates Bitcoin mining with HPC hosting to reduce power costs using grid optimization. They have adopted a relatively aggressive expansion that now targets 2.6 GW capacity by 2027 ...

Bitcoin enthusiasts are using a side effect of mining’s immense computational load to heat hot tubs, office buildings, and homes. At first glance, the Bathhouse spa in Brooklyn looks not so different ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports on a new study predicting that Bitcoin mining will rely on 70% renewable energy within five years. Given Bitcoin’s massive electricity ...