US Sanctions on Russian Bitcoin Mining are helping Russian oligarchs and hurting US citizens

Yesterday afternoon, US government added one of the largest Russian Bitcoin Mining Hosting company BitRiver on its sanction list. Here is a press release directly from US Treasure Site. The government claims that this step is taken to target Russia’s Crypto Currency mining industry and that these companies are using Russia’s natural resources for competitive … Read more

Bitcoin Hash Rate in 2022 – large firms on attack

The Bitcoin Network hash rate has already completely recovered from the mining ban in China in the summer of 2021. And the growth doesn’t stop there. Blockware solutions tweeted a table with upcoming publicly announced ASIC orders for 2022 by the large players like Riot, Marathon, Hut8 and Bitfarms. And the orders are massive.  $RIOT, … Read more

Bitcoin mining difficulty will increase significantly, despite drop in the price

Last week the price of Bitcoin dropped from $58,000 to $48,000 but it doesn’t look like it demotivated anyone from deploying more miners. Based on the current estimates, the bitcoin mining difficulty will increase significantly in 5 days from now. This will cause a short-term hit on profitability of all miners operations.  Difficulty and price … Read more