Mining

Sparkpool to Freeze Mysterious 2,100 Ether Mining Payout for Now

Mining pool Sparkpool says it’s temporarily freezing an unusually high mining payout worth $300,000 in case it was sent in error.

Cryptocurrency mining and manufacturing giant Bitmain lost about $500 million in the third quarter of 2018, CoinDesk has learned.

Bitmain Technologies has announced a new 7nm bitcoin mining processor that it says offers a big boost in energy efficiency.

Eight apps have been removed from Microsoft’s app store after Symantec found they could illicitly mine cryptocurrency.

Graphics card maker Nvidia has said the downturn in sales to crypto miners drove a drop in revenue in Q4, despite a record year overall.

Xiangfu Liu has left the board and management team of Canaan Creative, maker of the Avalon crypto miner.

Bitcoin has become more decentralized by several measures, according to a research report from Canaccord Genuity Group.

Bitfury has teamed up with a South Korean firm to mine bitcoin using cheap, clean hydro power in Paraguay.