A number of provincial governments are offering lower rates to attract bitcoin miners and Labrador’s government is considering energy incentives to attract “outstanding requests for service” from bitcoin data processors.
The wet season in Sichuan can drop electricity costs, and therefore bitcoin mining costs, dramatically. But according to insiders, there is currently more supply than demand in the mining market.
China's state planning agency has added cryptocurrency mining to a list of industries it would like to eliminate. This may have dire consequences for the country's mining hardware giant Bitmain.
Cryptomining manufacturer Bitmain has revealed the release date for its next-generation Antminer S17 series, in time for the anticipated bull run leading up to next year's bitcoin "halving."
ASIC chip manufacturer Canaan Creative is closing the gap between itself and cryptocurrency mining industry leader Bitmain after a massive infusion of capital.
The question here is whether bitcoin mining is a single point of failure. Could a government or other authority control Bitcoin through controlling a single entity in mining? What would it actually take to “take over”?
The Chinese crypto mining company Bitmain has apparently been hit hard by the bear market and is looking to sack more than half of their entire workforce.