Kosovo police seize 300 crypto mining machines amid electricity shortages

The police in Kosovo have ramped up their efforts to crack down on crypto miners in the country, confiscating more than 300 mining machines on Jan. 8 alone. An announcement issued by the Kosovo police...

Tesla EV-Battery Partner Saw Insiders Buy Up Stock

Text size A lithium battery. Piedmont Lithium insiders bought up stock as the year was coming to a close. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Piedmont Lithium stock doubled in 2021, and even as the year was clo...

Norton 360 will Take a 15% Cut for Mining Ethereum

Users are furious about Norton 360 taking 15% for mining Ethereum. Norton 360 “Antivirus” secretly install crypto mining software on your machine and skim a commission. Notton calls this commission “f...

Kosovo Seizes Hundreds of Crypto Mining Machines in Crackdown – Mining Bitcoin News

Police in Kosovo seized another batch of over 200 mining devices as part of raids that started on Thursday. The offensive against underground crypto farms was launched after authorities in Pristina ba...

Kosovo Seizes Hundreds of ASICs After Bitcoin Mining Ban

Kosovo, a partially recognized state in Southeast Europe, confiscated 272 different ASICs that were used for mining Bitcoin, according to a police statement issued on Saturday. The operation also resu...

El Salvador’s President calls economist an ‘ID-10t;’ defends Bitcoin volcano mining

It’s not every day you see a country’s head of state and a world-renowned economist getting into a Twitter fight, but that’s exactly what happened on the ninth day of this year. When Johns Hopkins eco...

Rio Tinto Is Building Its Lithium Business. The Move to Green Energy Will Boost the Stock.

Diversified miner Rio Tinto is pivoting toward clean-energy products. Courtesy of Rio Tinto Text size A fat dividend and a robust pivot toward clean-energy products should make United Kingdom–based di...

Lawmaker wants Spain to position as Bitcoin mining hub

TL;DR Breakdown Lawmaker wants Spain to be a crypto mining hub after crisis in Kazakhstan. Blames Kazakhstan crisis for drop in Bitcoin hashrate. Another lawmaker says Spain cannot be Bitcoin mining h...

Spanish Politician Argues the Country to Position Itself as a Bitcoin Mining Hub

Spanish politician and deputy of the Ciudadanos in the country’s Congress, María Muñoz, has proposed the creation of a national strategy to attract Bitcoin miners and other crypto-related activities f...

Internet Shut Down! Kazakhstan’s Political Crisis Surges Soon After Bitcoin Mining Goes Offline 

A summary of the protests included the Central Asian company over the last week. The show – “The Breakdown” contained NLW episodes, and it fits out a basic primer on the surging political crisis in Ka...

Is Norton 360 Mining Ethereum In Your Computer? If It Is, They’ll Take a 15% Cut

The most popular antivirus, Norton 360, made a miner out of everyone. Even though this has been going on for a while, the Internet recently found out about it. And traditional Norton customers are liv...

Kazakhstan Turmoil Shakes the Country’s BTC Mining Industry

Kazakhstan’s vast Bitcoin mining industry has been severely hit by the political chaos currently rocking the Central Asian nation. Rising fuel prices led to a spike in public anger which grew into wid...

China’s Xiangtai food Co. buys 686 spot Bitcoin miners despite mining ban

Xiangtai Food Co., Ltd., a Nasdaq-listed Chinese food company has bought 686 spot Bitcoin miners that are worth US$6 million via its United States subsidiary called SonicHash LLC. While the mining ope...

World’s 2nd biggest mining hub shuts down – Bitcoin doesn’t skip a beat

Chaos erupted in Kazakhstan this week and bitcoin mining was shut down as protests over fuel prices have sparked widespread unrest across the country. Kazakhstan, the Central Asian country of around 2...

US Congress Set To Have An Oversight Hearing On The Environmental Impact Of Bitcoin Mining ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp Congress may hold hearings on the environmental effects of Bitcoin mining soon.  This happens amid concerns about developments in New York. Energy us...

Kosovo Says “No” to Crypto Mining, Follows in China’s Footsteps

The European nation of Kosovo has banned all bitcoin and crypto mining as a means of saving electricity. The country is currently facing one of the worst energy crises it’s ever experienced, and it’s ...

Spanish Lawmaker Proposes Turning Spain Into Bitcoin Mining Hub

Alex Dovbnya A lawmaker from a center-right party wants Spain to lure miners from protest-stricken Kazakhstan Maria Munoz, a member of the Congress of Deputies from the center-right Citizens party, ha...

ESG Organizations Send Letter To Congress About PoW Mining, Bitcoin Responds

Will the ESG FUD ever stop? As a Congressional subcommittee prepares to take a good look at Proof-Of-Work mining, “more than 70” national, international, state and local organizations wrote a letter t...

7 most amazing Bitcoin mining sites around the world

When we think about cryptocurrency mining, the usual picture that pops up in our minds is a large room stacked with computers and GPUs with wires tangling all over the place. But you’d be surprised to...

GMiners: The cloud mining platform that is a trend

Crypto cloud technology has made things easier for thousands of investors who mine Bitcoins. If you are still sure the money doesn’t grow on trees, take a closer look at cloud mining, a breakthrough s...

Chinese crypto miner BIT Mining ‘unlikely’ to flee Kazakhstan: Report

Despite major internet blackouts amid anti-government protests in Kazakhstan, some Bitcoin (BTC) miners operating in the country are not planning to leave the country just yet. BIT Mining, one of the ...

Bitcoin Slips to 4-Month Low as Kazakhstan Internet Shutdown Hampers Mining

Bitcoin (BTC) dropped below $42K for the first time since September 2021 as the market remains in the red.  The leading cryptocurrency was down by 2.92% in the last 24 hours to hit $41,733 during intr...

Chinese Crackdown Bolsters Bitcoin Mining in Thailand, Bigger Investors Eye Setting Up Operations in Laos – Mining Bitcoin News

A crackdown on bitcoin mining by China has led to an increase in the number of Thai investors that have acquired and are operating mining rigs, a report has said. The report adds that many of these in...

Bitcoin mining stocks halve as ‘turbo-charged’ thesis plays out

Just as the price of bitcoin has steadily declined from highs of near $70,000 to around $42,000 today, so too have the share prices of the biggest crypto mining companies fallen. But the decline of th...

‘The Fed might have to really stop on the brakes’: Mortgage rates surge to highest level in over a year

Mortgage rates rose markedly in the first week of 2022 — potentially setting the tone for a year in which economist expect interest rates to move steadily higher. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage avera...

How could the instability in developing countries alter the Bitcoin mining landscape?

Following the news about nationwide protests in Kazakhstan causing an internet blackout in the Bitcoin mining country that resulted in a significant hash rate drop, CryptoSlate talked to Alan Konevsky...

Kazakhstan Shuts Down Banks, Internet Amid Unrest That Threatens Bitcoin Mining, Hashrate – Mining Bitcoin News

Measures imposed by authorities to quell mass protests in mining hotspot Kazakhstan are affecting cryptocurrency markets and the Bitcoin network hashrate. To deal with the civil unrest caused by risin...

Due to power crisis Kosovar Government halts crypto mining

Kosovo’s Minister of Economy has decided to ban crypto mining This move was recommended by the Technical Committee on Emergency Measures for Energy Supply The power supply fell below stipulated levels...

Iran Orders Shutdown Of Authorised Bitcoin Mining Centres ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp Key Takeaways Iran places a three-month ban on Bitcoin mining. The move will see up to 206 megawatts of electricity freed up to meet household energy...

Canaan expands crypto mining operations in Kazakhstan

Canaan, which is a leading Bitcoin mining hardware company, announced its strategic collaboration with crypto mining firms in Kazakhstan to bolster the joint mining business in the region.  Canaan ent...

Canaan Expands Mining Operations in Kazakhstan Amid Power Deficit, Protests – Mining Bitcoin News

Hardware manufacturer Canaan is expanding its crypto mining operations in Kazakhstan. The company is now cooperating with a number of mining firms there and has already deployed over 10,000 pieces of ...