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- Auradine's 600 Terahash Hydro Miner and Energy Tune
At Mining Disrupt Fort Lauderdale 2025, Auradine's chief strategy officer launched a 2U hydro miner and explained how its output can be tuned in seconds.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Hashrate Utilization: How Big Miners Run Their Sites
Marathon, Foundry, Core Scientific and CleanSpark operators on SOPs, hashrate hours, asset tracking and the technicians who keep fleets hashing.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Turning Off to Win: The Miner's New Strategy
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2024, CPower laid out how automated demand response turns a mine's power into grid revenue, and why AI compute may follow.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - Blockware's Danny Condon on Rigs as Assets
Danny Condon argues an ASIC is a dividend-paying asset with a spot value, not a sunk cost, and shows how resale changed two client returns.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Pow.re's Ian Descoteaux on Proxy Pools and Cobo Custody
Three lines of evidence that large Bitcoin mining pools share custody, block templates and accelerated transactions, and a free auditing service to track them.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Case for Turning Off Your Miners
Nate Givens of Revolve Labs says machine learning can decide when a fleet curtails, dodge peak-hour fees and time repairs to downtime.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - From Waste Heat to Warm Coffee: The New Mining Revenue Stream
Alan Gallo of JSBIT shares how clients use ASIC heat recapture to heat coffee shops, extend growing seasons and farm fish.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - MicroBT's Wright Wang on a US Factory and a Fixed Rack Shape
MicroBT's sales and marketing director on its US factory, three years of immersion tests and a hydro rack that will keep its shape.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The AI Shift in Immersion Mining
Mike Nixon argues that manual adjustments fail as Bitcoin volatility demands AI-driven, real-time optimization for immersion farms.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - MineBest on Mining After the 2020 Halving
Two months after the May 2020 halving, MineBest's sales chief looked at miner revenue, seven years without a new class of hardware, and where cheap power sits.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Geopolitical Maze of Bitcoin Mining
Nacho Pauls argues that working through legal and political risks in emerging markets matters more than finding cheap power.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Mod42's Factory-Built Data Halls for Miners
Mod42 CEO Christopher Abramo on factory-built, 3-megawatt data halls for Bitcoin miners moving into AI and HPC.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - The Concrete Ceiling of the AI Gold Rush
Why land, power, and cooling are the true bottlenecks in the AI infrastructure stack.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - Tumbleweeds in the Filter
A Foundry product manager on tumbleweeds in the filters, more than 20 sites on Optifleet, and a firmware product written in-house.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Canaan's Fan Gao on Cheap Power and Patience
Canaan's head of mining operations made the case for US hashrate, low-repair machines and long contracts at Mining Disrupt Fort Lauderdale 2025.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Dennis Porter's Cannabis Playbook for Bitcoin Mining
Satoshi Action's Dennis Porter argued at Mining Disrupt Miami 2023 that miners win by selling local benefits in statehouses, as cannabis did.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Flux and Proof of Useful Work
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2023, Daniel Keller pitched Flux, a GPU-mined network that switches miners from hashing to paid compute jobs.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - The Complexity of Efficiency: Jim Seto on ePIC’s Approach
ePIC Blockchain's CEO says the next efficiency gains depend on firmware, power delivery and system design as much as on smaller silicon nodes.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Foreman's 810 Breaker Flips
Foreman's CEO on why miners in ERCOT's LZ West cannot flip breakers by hand, and how automated strike prices and demand response protect margins.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Ordinals Fees and the Halving: ASIC Jungle at Mining Disrupt Miami 2023
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2023, Mohamad Abdulrazak of ASIC Jungle argued that inscription fees were already paying miners ahead of the halving.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Wyoming's $102 Test
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2022, Wyoming attorney Bob Cornish laid out the state's digital asset laws and his case for keeping U.S. raises inside its borders.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Worm Farm Miner: Nick Jackson of Blokforge
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2022, Blokforge's founder explained how ice cream shops, farms and steel plants fold miners into the business they already run.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Acrohash's Austin Plan: Shut Down for the Grid, Overclock in the Tank
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2022, Acrohash's Tommy Li laid out a 100 MW Austin build, grid shutdown pledges, overclocking results and a one-gigawatt target.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - Selling the Heat: GREENTECH's Case for Mining in the Netherlands
Jelmer ten Wolde argued that selling the heat from miners, not chasing cheaper power, is what keeps mining profitable in Europe.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Elite Mining's Justin Podhola on Mobile Immersion Mining Trailers
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2021, Elite Mining's CEO made the case for mobile immersion units in cargo trailers that need no concrete and can follow the power.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Foundry's Plan for Mining After China
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2021, Foundry's head of mining explained how financing, a U.S. pool and advisory work aimed to decentralize mining.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Mining Stacks With Bitcoin
Blockstack's Xan Ditkoff explained how Stacks 2.0 miners bid Bitcoin instead of electricity, and how stackers are paid in that Bitcoin.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Why One State Isn't Enough: Precision Miners' Geographic Bet
Krunal Joshi applies oil-and-gas risk tactics to hosting, betting that spreading sites across Missouri and Kansas ensures survival.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Tyson Punch: Why Megawatts Kill
Ken Worton argues that the industry's casual attitude toward megawatts is a lethal blind spot, comparing a 22,000-amp fault to a Mike Tyson punch.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Silent Hand: Vorick on Pool Centralization
David Vorick argues that the Stratum protocol unfairly exposes mining farms to liability, proposing Better Hash to return block selection to the hardware.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - HIVE's Dual-Engine Bet: Mining Bitcoin to Power AI
HIVE COO Luke Rossy on using Bitcoin mining's daily revenue and operating discipline to build AI capacity, with a $660 million ARR goal for 2028.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - The Hashrate Ambassador: Tic Tacc's Bitmain Strategy
Carmen Li explains how Tic Tacc acts as a liquidity provider, buying hardware in dips to stabilize the supply chain.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - MicroBT Solar Mining: Turning Waste Heat into Revenue
MicroBT's Wright Wang on US production, a partner ecosystem for custom cooling, miners built for heat reuse, and DC miners designed for off-grid solar.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Power Behind the Operation
Dream Power's Ben Johnson on running mining hardware out of Shenzhen: Bitmain and MicroBT ties, immersion cooling and an ETC miner for AI data centers.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - Blowing the Heat Out: Digital Shovel's Ventilation Revolution
By forcing air with centrifugal blow instead of passive suction, Digital Shovel aims to fix heat recirculation in high-density containers.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - The Chiller That Mines
At Mining Disrupt Fort Lauderdale 2025, Bitmain's Yifan Hu pitched liquid-cooled miners that fit standard data centers, for operators weighing AI.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - The End of the Wild West: HMTech's Closed Loop
Gerald Wilkie argues Bitcoin's next era is defined by eliminating operational chaos, not just raw power.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - The Hidden Cost of Hash Rate
How mastering logistics, hidden insurance exclusions, and packaging protects your Bitcoin mining investment.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Conservative Grandfather of Bitcoin Insurance
Thomas Shewchuck of Bitsure on three ways miners can cut fire risk and insurance premiums: surge protection, rotating maintenance and underclocking.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Digital Flea Market of Hashrate
Marko Tarman explains how the spot market eliminates contracts and boosts miner margins by 7% through real-time bidding.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Order Out of Chaos: The New Face of South American Bitcoin Mining
Hash House's Andres Romero on Paraguay's regulated hydro rate, Brazil's cheap energy window, off-grid gas in Argentina and Colombia, and banking.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Human Bottleneck: Why Workforce Quality Matters More Than Hardware
Adrian Hale argues Bitcoin's real bottleneck is workforce quality, not hardware, and proposes a community-focused fellowship as the antidote.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Factory Floor Standard for Bitcoin
Joseph Florence of TechX argues that a broken miner is a high-density electronic assembly, and should be repaired to manufacturing standards.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Human Edge in Texas Bitcoin Mining
Argo Blockchain CEO Peter Wall argues that local people, not just power, are the critical fourth pillar of mining success in Dickens County, Texas.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Hidden Heat: Inside the New Frontier of Immersion Cooling
Gary Testa of Engineered Fluids explains how to design immersion mines that survive the physics of heat and power.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Canaan's Case for Bitcoin Mining as a Flexible Load
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2022, Canaan's Edward Lu argued that miners earn their place by soaking up surplus wind and solar, and launched the AvalonMiner 1266.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Statistics of Silicon: When an ASIC Is a Good Deal
ASIC Jungle’s Artem Bespaloff argues that standard deviation, not market timing, is the key to buying mining hardware at the right price.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Backpack Chip: How Automation Tamed the Mining Market
ASIC Jungle's Artem Bespaloff on turning a hardware brokerage into an automated marketplace with instant shipping quotes, deposits, KYC and escrow.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - Scaling the Mine: Modular Hardware, Enterprise Software
Genesis Mining's Philip Salter on why scaling past one site takes modular containers, management software that keeps years of data, and a central expert team.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - The Chip That Doesn't Pick a Side
Avnet ASIC and AzurEngine pitched a reconfigurable processor that lets miners switch coins while using far less power than a GPU.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - The ASIC Inevitability: Why Software Standardization Matters More
Genesis Mining's Philip Salter argues that accepting hardware specialization is the only path to preventing new monopolies in the mining ecosystem.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - Bitmain's Ecosystem Play: Beyond the Hardware
Bitmain's Irene Gao on three ways to raise mining efficiency in 2019: power-tunable hardware, trained repair staff and local repair, and shared industry news.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - When Data Became a Service: Core Scientific's 2019 Bet
In 2019 Core Scientific pitched hosting as a software-run service. Seven years later it has all but left Bitcoin mining to rent power to AI.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - The Miner’s Edge in the AI Gold Rush
Frank Holmes argues that the operational grit of Bitcoin mining is the only viable path for Hive into capital-intensive AI infrastructure.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt - Beyond the Treasury: Twenty One Capital's New Mission
Raphael Zagury argues the firm must shift to operating models like mining to outperform Bitcoin's risk-adjusted returns.
Full story on Mining Disrupt - The Heat Is On: Why Cooling Is Killing AI Expansion
Shane of Data Airflow explains why air cooling is failing AI data centers and how hybrid hydronic systems balance water usage, uptime, and cost.
Full story on Intelligence Disrupt