BTC price eyes $40K amid record hash rate — 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week

Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week keeping traders guessing near its highest levels in 18 months — what’s next?BTC price action has held higher after spiking above $38,000 last week, but since then, a testing "micro-range" has left bulls and bears locked in battle.Whether a ...

Marathon Digital sees 670% revenue gain in Q3 as Bitcoin production surges

Bitcoin mining firm Marathon Digital Holdings saw its revenue surge $670% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2023, amid a nearly five-fold increase in Bitcoin production.The results saw Marathon also swing to a quarterly profit, with $64.1 million of net income in the third quarter, acco ...

Luxor refutes claims its Bitcoin hashrate-backed product is BlockFi, Celsius 2.0

An upcoming Bitcoin (BTC) hashrate-backed product that could offer 10% to 13% returns shouldn’t be compared to failed products by BlockFi or Celsius as its returns come from proof-of-work, not “ponzi schemes,” claims the product’s creator Bitcoin mining firm Luxor Technolo ...

Bitcoin white paper turns 15 as Satoshi Nakamoto’s legacy lives on

Today marks 15 years since the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, shared the Bitcoin (BTC) white paper to a mailing list of cryptographers on Oct. 31, 2008 — a date also annually celebrated as Halloween.“I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system th ...

Mining BTC is harder than ever — 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week

Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week firmly back in the “Uptober” spirit as the weekly close gives way to a classic short squeeze.In a return to classic BTC price volatility of the kind seen earlier in the month, the largest cryptocurrency is tackling $28,000 ahead of the first Wall ...

The Impact of Bitcoin’s Upcoming Halving on Miner Profitability

Bitcoin miners are facing heightened competition due to record-high hash rates, making miner profitability increasingly challenging. While ordinal inscriptions help miners earn extra revenue by filling empty block space, profitability remains modest compared to historical levels. The upcoming Bit ...

Bitcoin Network Fundamentals Remain Strong Despite Price Drop

Bitcoin (BTC) network fundamentals are in no mood to follow bearish BTC price action this week. The latest on-chain data confirms that difficulty has hit new all-time highs, with hash rate not far behind. Bitcoin mining difficulty ends slump Despite BTC/USD droppin ...

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms trims Q2 loss to $27.7M

Colorado-based Bitcoin mining firm Riot Platforms narrowed its second quarter net loss to $27.7 million as it ramped up its Bitcoin production and reached record hash rate capacity. The crypto miner posted total revenue of $76.7 million — up 5.2% from Q2 2022 — which was primarily driven b ...

Bitcoin mining difficulty hits all-time high as BTC miner selling peaks

Bitcoin mining difficulty reached an all-time high of 53.91 trillion units after the latest difficulty adjustment on July 12. It is a measure of how difficult it is to mine Bitcoin (BTC) blocks.The blockchain adjusts its difficulty every two weeks to maintain its processing time ...

Bitcoin mining firms keep building despite BTC mining profitability slump

Despite a 44% decline in Bitcoin (BTC) mining profitability over the last year, some Bitcoin mining companies have continued to build and increase production, according to recent announcements.On June 1, American Bitcoin mining firm CleanSpark announced that it had purchased 12,500 br ...

Dogecoin Surpasses Bitcoin and Ethereum with Over 2 Million Daily Transactions

According to Blockchair platform, the number of transactions in the Dogecoin network increased to 2 million per day, outperforming Bitcoin and Etherium. On Saturday, May 27, Dogecoin broke all previous records with more than 2 million transactions in 24 hours. In compa ...

Bitcoin Network’s Hash Rate and Mining Difficulty on the Rise

The Bitcoin network's hash rate continues to grow, and with it, so does the difficulty of mining BTC. Whereas at the time of last recalculation the figure was down 1.45%, it is now up 3.22%, reaching 49.55 Tx. The recalculation of ...

BTC mining difficulty drops by 1.45%

Since the beginning of the year, the figure has increased by 30% This was due to an influx of new miners and capacity But in 2 weeks, the difficulty dropped from 48.71 tons to 48.01 tons As analysts predicted, the new correction in BTC mining difficul ...