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Marathon Digital will pay $179 million to acquire two Bitcoin mining sites with 390 megawatts of capacity from Generate Capital. MARA stock surged by 9% after the news, bringing year-to-date gains to over 530%. Bitcoin was trading above $42k, up 2.2% in the past week after paring recent gains. Bitcoin mining firm Marathon Digital is set to add to its mining capacity and reduce the cost of mining BTC when it completes the purchase of two Bitcoin mining sites for $179 million. Marathon will buy the two mining sites from subsidiaries of Generate Capital at a cost of $458,000 per megawatt, with this paid for in cash, the company said in a press release. In total, the deal will see Marathon add 390 megawatts to its mining capacity. Marathon to reduce cost of mining BTC According to Marathon, the transaction will be its “first fully owned sites ”, adding to the 3% of 584 megawatts it directly controls in its portfolio. The deal should see Marathon...

US Claims Crypto Mining Poses Threat To Society According to a recent report that is set to be published in the White House today, the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) argues that Crypto miners’ high-energy consumption has negative spillovers on the environment, quality of life, and electricity grids where such businesses are located. advertisement Read More: LUNC Developer Teases AI App Chain “Block Entropy”, LUNC Price Eyeing $0.1? The cryptocurrency mining business is being unfairly targeted, according to those who oppose the planned tax. The rampant crypto crackdowns by the regulators and now a proposed bill to impose hefty tax stand out as a sore eye for the larger crypto market and being part of a larger anti-crypto crusade. According to Tom Mapes, head of energy policy at the Chamber of Digital Commerce, who spoke with Yahoo News, stated that “this is just a way to go after the industry which they do not support....

Bitfarms faced potential delisting from Nasdaq after the stock exchange company told the Bitcoin mining firm that the stock price is not in compliance with listing requirements as it continued to trade under $1 for several months. Nonetheless, the recent rally in Bitcoin and rising mining activity pushed Bitfarms shares higher. advertisement Bitfarms Regains Compliance With Nasdaq Listing According to a press release on May 1, Bitfarms received confirmation on its continued listing from the Nasdaq stock exchange. The Bitcoin mining firm has now regained compliance with the minimum bid price requirement of $1 per share under the Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). In December, Nasdaq sent a notice to Bitfarms that its stock price has failed to comply with the minimum bid price requirement of $1 per share over 30 consecutive trading days. If the stock price doesn’t recover and trade over $1 for at least 10 days in the next six months, Bitfarms risks delisting....

The Solana Foundation has launched a real-time carbon emissions tracker to monitor the Solana blockchain. The Solana Foundation, in collaboration with Data platform Try carbon ara, announced the launch of a real-time tracking dashboard to measure carbon emissions on the Solana block chain .  1/ Today, the Solana Foundation is leading the charge in the climate fight by making Solana one of the first blockchains to have its emissions measured in real time, thanks to a new data portal created with TryCarbonara. Learn more: https://t.co/k4QsZmtjHn pic.twitter.com/gqPwpKtv3u — Solana (@solana) April 21, 2023 According to a blog post from the foundation, this represents the first “major smart-contract blockchain” to measure carbon emissions in real-time. The organization hopes this will spur a trend towards carbon emissions transparency in the blockchain ecosystem: “The Solana Foundation hopes to set a new standard for measuring emissions in blockchain by publishing this data.” The n...

Argo’s daily Bitcoin production rate in February surged 7% despite a 10% month-over-month increase in average network difficulty. Publicly-listed Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm Argo Blockchain has increased its daily BTC production despite a significant spike in network difficulty. During the month of February, Argo mined a total of 162 of Bitcoin or BTC equivalents, translating to 5.7 BTC per day, the firm announced in an operational update on March 7. Argo’s daily Bitcoin production rate in February surged 7% from 5.4 BTC per day produced in January, despite a 10% month-over-month increase in average network difficulty. Bitcoin mining difficulty is a measure defining how hard it is to mine a BTC block, with a higher difficulty requiring more hash rate, or additional computing power to verify transactions and mine new coins. According to data from Blockchain.com, BTC network difficulty has been surging to new all-time highs in February, hitting a difficulty rate of 43 trillion on Feb. ...