
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.
Miners, hardware & hashrate

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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