Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For someone who cares about climate change, Matt Carlsson had what seemed like a ...

Bitcoin’s most recent halving took place in 2024, cutting the reward miners receive for each new block (David Pereiras/The Noun Project) While today’s data center conversation revolves around AI, ...

For someone who cares about climate change, Matt Carlsson had what seemed like a dream job: teaching clients how to decarbonize buildings. But he was frustrated. He could give customers the tools to ...

One of the side effects of the energy-intensive process of bitcoin mining is the excess heat that is created by the involved hardware devices. Miners have to prove that they’ve expended energy on ...

Industry executives and investors forecast a wide range of prices for bitcoin in 2026, dropping as low as $75,000 and rising as high as $225,000. Commentators who spoke to CNBC expect big volatility ...

Advances in quantum computing don’t just threaten Bitcoin wallet security, it could also undermine its economic and security model as it could be used to mine Bitcoin blocks far more efficiently, ...

Key metrics tracking the development of Bitcoin Core show 2025 was a good year for the blockchain, with more developers contributing more code, says Jameson Lopp. Bitcoin developers working on the ...

Courts could jail illegal miners for up to five years. The Justice Ministry also proposes heavy fines for offenders. Illegal miners are blamed for power shortages in Bitcoin mining hotspots. Mining ...

Riot Platforms faces significant downside risk in 2026 due to a likely Bitcoin bear market and high operational leverage to BTC price cycles. Technical indicators for both BTC and RIOT signal bearish ...

In June, WSJ’s Joanna Stern headed inside a data center to show just how much energy it takes to make an AI image and video. Photo: David Hall It’s harder than ever to mine bitcoin. And less ...

Recently, analyst Mark Palmer from Benchmark raised the price target for Bitcoin-miner-turned-AI company Hut 8. The change in price target was due to the company’s latest push into AI data center ...

Quantum computing and the threat it poses to encrypted blockchains has once again crept into online bitcoin conversations, raising concerns that it poses a long-term risk that investors and developers ...