Lawmakers in the United States are reportedly concerned about the impact the rising number of miners has on the environment and will invite several stakeholders for a hearing.
Kosovo is eliminating all non-essential energy needs, such as block reward mining, after winter-fueled blackouts led the nation to a state of emergency.
Kazakhstan has been experiencing its deadliest protests ever with over 160 dead, and BTC hash rate took a nosedive after a five-day Internet outage.
This week marks the 13th year of the Bitcoin Genesis Block. It first appeared on January 3, 2009, containing the now-famous headline from The Times: “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.”
Robert Godes of Brillouin Energy Corp joined the Women of BSV to explain his company's dynamics, the fundamentals of nuclear technology, and more.
The latest Spider-Man film is proving quite popular, and hackers are taking advantage to spread a very well-disguised mining malware on torrent sites.
The Iranian national grid operator said that this is one of many measures meant to ensure that residents won’t experience blackouts once winter sets in.
The Senate in Paraguay approved the bill introduced back in July that seeks to regulate mining to consume the surplus energy produced.
Aside from ruling that the contract was invalid as mining is illegal in the country, the court also turned over all records in the case to national authorities so they could shut down the mining operation.
As the outgoing CEO of TAAL Distributed Information Technologies Inc., Stefan Matthews is pleased with the health of the business he’s handing on to his successor: “Things are going very well at TAAL.”
Block reward miners including Hive Blockchain, Genesis Mining and Bitfury have set up shop in Iceland which offers cheap electricity.
TAAL expects to use a portion of the loan for financing the build out of a world-class industrial scale Bitcoin mining operation at the 60,000 sq/ft facility it has committed to acquire in New Brunswick, Canada.
