Cryptocurrency Mining

British Columbia has made its temporary ban on new crypto mining connections permanent. The decision blocks crypto miners from accessing the province’s clean energy grid.

Laos is preparing to cut off its electricity supply to cryptocurrency mining operations by the first quarter of 2026, as the government looks to focus its resources toward industries that could help the country generate greater economic value, as announced by the Deputy Energy Minister Chanthaboun Soukaloun.

A dormant wallet tied to the Chinese Bitcoin mining pool LuBian has suddenly transferred nearly $1.3 billion in Bitcoin, just one day after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unveiled a massive $15 billion crypto forfeiture case linked to alleged money laundering through international mining operations.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has broken his radio silence on Bitcoin since his last mentioned in 2022, following the collapse of FTX. In a post on X, Musk praised Bitcoin’s energy-based design as a safeguard against the reckless money printing he believes will escalate amid the global artificial intelligence (AI) arms race.

This weekend will go down as one of the most chaotic in crypto’s history — a bloodbath that exposed just how much power one man still holds over the digital economy.

Russian police raided a site in St. Petersburg and seized over 2,700 crypto mining machines that had been secretly running for seven years. The operators are accused of tampering with electricity meters to steal power, causing major losses to the grid.

Dogecoin just got its biggest political endorsement yet. In a move that could redefine the meme coin’s future, Thumzup Media Corporation — a Nasdaq-listed firm with deep Trump family ties — has handed DogeHash Technologies a $2.5 loan to supercharge its mining power.

Google has made another surprising move into the crypto sector by "conquering" yet another Bitcoin mining company by acquiring a 5.4% stake in Cipher Mining as part of a sweeping $3 billion deal designed to power artificial intelligence workloads.

Tether is pushing back against local media reports that it is jettisoning its $500 million crypto mining project in Uruguay after the national Adminsitration of Power Plants and Eelctrc Transmission allegedly unplugged power at its facilities for failing to pay a $2 million electricity bill in May.

Thumzup Media bought $2 million in Dogecoin and plans to acquire a mining firm with 3,500 rigs. It also raised $50 million and added Dogecoin insiders to its advisory board.