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Hut 8 Wins Poolin's Two Texas Sites With a $140M Auction Bid

Hut 8 bid $140 million for Poolin's Pyote and Tarbush sites, nearly three times the $52 million floor. A New Jersey judge has to approve the sale on 29 September.

· 24 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Bitcoin Difficulty Rises 4.16%, Short of the 4.70% Modelled

The 19 September retarget took difficulty to 132.76 trillion while hashrate sat near 914 EH/s. Three estimators disagree on what comes next.

· 20 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Ethiopia Cuts Bitcoin Miners to About a Quarter of Contracted Power

Ethiopian Electric Power is delivering about 23% of what miners contracted for, blaming low reservoir inflows. Mining was 35% of its revenue last year.

· 16 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Bitcoin's Hashrate Is Down More Than 20% as Miners Turn to AI

Four accounts of the decline agree on the direction and disagree on the peak, the depth and the length. The capital is moving to AI data centres.

· 2 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Ocean Buys Out Luke Dashjr as the Two Split Over Mining's Future

A joint statement dated 29 August says Dashjr resigned as Ocean's chairman, CTO and director and that Mummolin repurchased all his equity. No price was given.

· 31 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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IREN's AI Cloud Revenue Overtakes Mining as the Loss Hits $684M

AI cloud brought IREN $70.5 million in the June quarter against $66.7 million from bitcoin mining, the first time the split has gone that way. The quarter cost $684 million.

· 29 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Bitcoin Difficulty Rises 0.99% to 127.48T at the August 8 Retarget

Difficulty rose 0.99% to 127.48T at the 8 August retarget, above all three published estimates, while hashrate and hashprice readings still refuse to agree.

· 8 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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MARA and CleanSpark Post a Combined $851M Quarterly Loss

MARA lost $611.3M and CleanSpark $239.8M as revenue fell 27% and 30.5%. Both leaned harder on AI and data-center capacity, and both stocks fell on the print.

· 6 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Bitcoin's Difficulty Edges Down 0.74%

Bitcoin's second difficulty reset of July barely moved, a flat line after the 5% cut two weeks earlier and a sign that hashrate has stopped leaving the network.

· 25 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Bitcoin's Difficulty Drops 5% in the Month's Second Big Cut

Bitcoin's mining difficulty fell 5.00% to 127.17 trillion on July 11, the second large downward move in a month, lifting hashprice 12.5% to $31.1.

· 11 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops 9.91% as Hashrate Leaves the Network

Bitcoin's mining difficulty fell 9.91% at the 13 June retarget, from 138.96 trillion to 125.19 trillion, one of the largest downward moves on record. Hashrate had slid to roughly 967 EH/s as unprofitable rigs powered down with bitcoin near $64,007.

· 13 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Bitcoin Mining Under Pressure

🔲Hashprice — a key indicator of Bitcoin mining profitability — has fallen below the psychologically important $40 level, approaching loss-making territory. At roughly $39.4 per PH/s/day, miners are…

· 13 Dec 2025· 🕐 1 min read