Bitcoin Hashprice Rose 22% but the Hashrate Never Switched Back On
Bitcoin hashprice rose 22% to $39.63 by September 6, but hashrate stayed flat near 934 EH/s and fees are 0.43% of rewards. The gain is bitcoin's price.
Bitcoin hashprice rose 22% to $39.63 by September 6, but hashrate stayed flat near 934 EH/s and fees are 0.43% of rewards. The gain is bitcoin's price.
IREN is scrapping its bitcoin mining fleet by December after a 638.8 million dollar writedown, yet mining revenue still rose 19 percent this year.
StarkWare ran the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet, but ordinary nodes rejected it and about 7 million exposed coins get no help.
Cypherpunk switched on 4.2 GSol/s and now runs about 18% of Zcash hashrate, while holding 1.92% of ZEC supply and openly targeting 5%.
Riot Platforms lost 237M in Q2 and now pays nearly 50,000 dollars to mine one Bitcoin. Its new 9.1B Anthropic AI lease quietly pays more.
An attacker minted four billion ONE, about a quarter of Harmony's supply, and moved 97% to exchanges. The whole haul is worth roughly $3.2 million.
A consensus bug let invalid Ravencoin blocks slip in on August 7. Days later two mining pools, not the core developers, are rolling the chain back.
Twenty One Capital posted a $413.5M Q2 loss, but 97% was bitcoin repricing. The buried number is a 1.07x mNAV and a CEO conceding the premium is closing.
Treasury sanctioned two more Iranian crypto venues on August 7. The June round covered 72% of inflows; the new case names flows of $2 million.
BitFuFu's bitcoin treasury fell 357 coins in July to prepay for hashrate. The fleet mined 112 BTC and managed capacity shrank again.
South Korea's crypto tax lands January 2027, but exchange volume already fell 54.6% in the first half of 2026. The missing rule is on losses.
3iQ will manage part of Gelephu's bitcoin. The Bhutan bitcoin treasury behind it is listed at 3,121, 4,973, 10,769 or 11,286 BTC.
Russia bars crypto mining in Moscow until 2032. The one gigawatt behind the decree works out to 3.5% to 5.7% of global hashrate.
BIP 110 has 21 signaling blocks and needs 1,109. Paul Sztorc's eCash hard fork activates at block 964,000 with no miner vote required.
Poolin filed Chapter 11 owing 11,700 wallet users 163.7 million dollars. The opening bid on its Texas sites is 52 million, before costs.
Saylor published 110 reasons to reject BIP 110 and Adam Back wants backers to fork away. Miner signaling for the proposal has never cleared 1%.
Covers developments across Bitcoin and crypto mining, including hash rate trends, miner activity, and network dynamics. Tracks how miners respond to market conditions, energy costs, and block rewards, and how these shifts influence the broader digital asset ecosystem.