A developer using Claude Code to help build a temperature monitor app was warned by the coding agent about a hidden crypto miner running on their system.
An Nvidia-backed startup plans to establish a Bitcoin mining operation in space before the year is out.
A project claimed to represent ‘the first organic neuron Bitcoin miner based on the fly brain’ has gone live.
There is increasing evidence that Mexican drug cartels are diversifying into cryptocurrency mining and are using crypto platforms to launder their ill-gotten gains.
A new cryptocurrency called Pearl has set off a short-lived GPU mining rush.
An inventor has showcased a 3D printer filament dryer ‘that pays you bitcoin.’
Bitcoin miners are pivoting to AI infrastructure amidst the conflict in Iran. The BTC network has seen its first quarterly hashrate drop in nearly six years.
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The creator of a 3D printer that mines Bitcoin took part in an interview on the Home Mining Podcast at the weekend.
Superheat was at CES 2026 to showcase what it describes as “a water heater that pays for itself.” Instead of a resistive heating element, it warms your H2O with heat generated by a Bitcoin ASIC miner.
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The Russian government plans to penalize ‘illegal’ mining of cryptocurrency to prison terms of up to five years.