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An uplift in hashrate suggests miners continue to invest in more sophisticated hardware
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Last quarter, the Nevada-based miner increased revenue by 14% to $42.5 million, though there was a GAAP net loss of $18.5 million
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As Marathon Digital has aggressively grown, the deployed hash rates of Iris Energy and Cipher Mining have also more than doubled in the last six months
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Bigger block sizes and jumps in fees are the result of activities usually more at home on rival network Ethereum
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Share prices of US-traded crypto mining firms finished the week higher on Friday, bolstered by short-term risk-on trader sentiment for digital assets
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The final pre-Merge clients rolled out this week as the Ethereum community prepares for proof-of-stake liftoff
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The miner is cutting 10% of its workforce but expects to expand self-mining fleet by 36% in 2022
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Today, bitcoin mining is barely profitable. Costs are too high and rewards are too low for most miners.
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China has jumped back to one of the top mining hubs in the world despite a crackdown on operations by the country’s government last year
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The overall bitcoin hashrate hit an all-time high of 208 million terahashes per second on Jan. 1
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