Bitcoin Mining

Bitcoin Mining

Finance

Core Scientific sold $208 million of bitcoin in Q1 as AI pivot continues

The firm's AI pivot relies on a 590 MW contract expansion with CoreWeave, projected for $10.2 billion in revenue over 12 years.

Data center (Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

Finance

Hut 8 shares jump over 30% on news of $9.8 billion AI data center lease

Bitcoin miner expands into AI infrastructure with long-term hyperscale contract in Texas, which includes options that could increase the total value of the agreement to over $25 billion.

Hut 8 Beacon Point Data Center: Rendering. (Hut 8/Press)

Finance

Trump-linked American Bitcoin shares spike over 12% after announcing more mining power

The Trump family-linked mining and treasury company announced 11,298 additional bitcoin mining ASICs at its Drumheller site.

An engineer works with bitcoin mining rigs (Shutterstock)

Markets

HIVE, Keel push deeper into AI data centers with capital raise, asset sale

HIVE raises $115M to expand data centers while Keel exits Latin America, redirecting funds into HPC and AI as both stocks climb 4%.

An engineer sits at a bank of crypto mining rigs.

Finance

Core Scientific seeks $3.3 billion bond sale to further AI data center pivot

The company is building six AI data centers, leased to CoreWeave for 12 years, and is expected to generate approximately $10 billion in revenue.

Core Scientific's mining facility in Calvert City, Ky. (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

UK gas-investment firm weighs bitcoin mining, draws criticism

Reabold Resources' gas field is so large it could theoretically mine 50,000 BTC, local media said. The firm said it will test bitcoin mining before pivoting to data centers.

Bitcoin mining farm (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

From smelters to servers: Alcoa to cash in on crypto’s thirst for energy

Alcoa is in advanced negotiations to sell its dormant Massena East smelter in upstate New York to Bitcoin mining firm NYDIG.

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Markets

TeraWulf stock declines on $900 million share sale to fund AI data center expansion

The shares had been on a big run higher, rising more than 50% since late March.

An engineer sits at a bank of crypto mining rigs.

Markets

Bhutan has sold 70% of its bitcoin in 18 months. It may have stopped BTC mining too.

The kingdom's holdings have dropped from 13,000 BTC to 3,954 since October 2024, with $215.7 million moved out this year alone. Its last mining inflow over $100,000 was recorded more than a year ago.

Bhutan (Sittichok Glomvinya/Pixabay)

Videos

Are AI giants coming for bitcoin miners' power?

Anthropic's multi-gigawatt compute deal with Google and Broadcom highlights how AI companies are now directly competing with bitcoin miners for the same energy infrastructure. Several major miners have already started converting capacity to AI hosting, but does this mean that bitcoin mining is dying? CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

Are AI giants coming for bitcoin miners' power?