The Bitcoin mining industry is still an exciting place today, ten years since I started mining Bitcoin in my dorm room, and nine years since the launch of Genesis Mining. However, scaling mining ...

The opportunity to make big money is attracting huge investments to industrial-scale bitcoin mining, with thousands of supercomputer mining machines and enormous energy demand – so much energy that ...

Energy consumption from Bitcoin mining is massive, and people are taking notice. The increases have been scaling fast, with mining energy usage quickly surpassing the totals of small countries. And ...

The National Coalition of Small-Scale Miners in the Philippines, Inc. (NCSSMPI) backs the enactment of the proposed Minahang ...

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Gold is key to the economic survival of millions of Ghanaians. Knut-Erik Helle/Flickr, CC BY-NC Artisanal and small-scale mining is a low-tech, indigenous and often informal. It occurs in over 80 ...

Peru’s government is acknowledging for the first time the existence of large-scale informal mining of copper, warning that high prices could see the activity grow in the near future. The government is ...

Bitcoin is the future of money, but it doesn’t exist without mining it. There was a time when someone could mine from a laptop in their home, but competition forced operations to scale and hardware to ...