The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the relative computing challenge of adding a new block to the ledger, increased ...

Mining difficulty for Bitcoin has risen to 148.2 trillion in the latest 2025 difficulty reset, the highest level since miners ...

While shareholders are likely to key in on near-term weakness in its core retail payments business when it announces Q1 earnings on Thursday, Block is investing further afield, seeking to encourage ...

The U.S. bitcoin mining industry just got its most disruptive upgrade yet. On August 14, 2025, Block unveiled Proto Rig, a modular, repairable, and upgradable bitcoin mining system, alongside Proto ...

CASTLE ROCK, Colo., July 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Riot Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT) ("Riot" or "the Company"), an industry leader in vertically integrated Bitcoin mining, is pleased to announce that ...

Jack Dorsey’s Block has posted a new blog that details the Mining Development Kit, a new project that would seemingly replicate the Lightning Development Kit and Bitcoin Development Kit projects, ...

With Block continuing to underperform the market, the company is now turning to Bitcoin as a way to pump up its value. Block's new Bitcoin mining strategy involves the manufacturing of Bitcoin mining ...

Today, Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) and Core Scientific (Nasdaq: CORZ) have announced a new partnership focused on further decentralizing mining hardware. This collaboration introduces Block's advanced 3 ...

Like so much of the civic discourse in America these days, the debate over the environmental implications of digital assets, particularly cryptocurrencies, is unnecessarily polarized. The policy that ...