Bitcoin's Fourth Halving Cuts the Block Reward to 3.125 BTC
The protocol's pre-programmed issuance cut activated at block 840,000, slowing daily issuance to roughly 450 BTC and tightening miner economics overnight.
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The protocol's pre-programmed issuance cut activated at block 840,000, slowing daily issuance to roughly 450 BTC and tightening miner economics overnight.
A brutal winter storm forced roughly 40% of global Bitcoin mining capacity offline, with public miners curtailing aggressively to support a stressed power grid.
Hyperscale AI data center demand is competing aggressively for the same power and transmission slots that miners had been quietly accumulating for years.
Several mid-tier miners have relocated capacity to Quebec, drawn by the province's abundant low-cost hydroelectric power and cooler ambient temperatures.
After two years of trading at material premiums to underlying Bitcoin holdings, public miners' equity premiums have compressed sharply, with implications for ATM-driven accumulation strategies.
ERCOT's revised demand-response programs are paying miners more to power down — and the largest operators are leaning into it.
Margin compression has triggered a steady stream of Chapter 11 filings among second-tier miners, consolidating hashrate into the largest operators.
As CoreWeave's market valuation has demonstrated the multiple traditional public markets pay for AI hosting, the largest miners are exploring more aggressive AI strategies.