Industrial Bitcoin mining breathes new life into tiny Texan town
Two Bitcoin mining giants are duking it out for cheap electricity in the tiny town in Texas. Both Bitdeer, a mining firm that spun out from Chinese giant Bitmain, and Riot Blockchain, one of leading publicly traded Bitcoin mining firms in the United States, are operating data centers hosted at a former aluminium smelting facility […]
Riot Blockchain reports 1,540% increase in quarterly revenue from Bitcoin mining
Major publicly-listed Bitcoin mining firm, Riot Blockchain, has reported record revenues for Q2 2021. In its Aug. 23 quarterly financial report, the U.S.-based firm reported $31.5 million in mining-related revenues for the three-month period — up roughly 1,540% from its Q2 2020 revenue of $1.9 million. The surging mining revenues drove a record quarterly net […]