The U.S. bitcoin mining industry just got its most disruptive upgrade yet. On August 14, 2025, Block unveiled Proto Rig, a modular, repairable, and upgradable bitcoin mining system, alongside Proto ...

Key takeawaysBitcoin mining began in 2009 as a hobby-friendly activity where users could earn BTC using CPUs and later GPUs. By 2026, the landscape has shifted entirely to industrial-scale operations ...

The bitcoin mining investment thesis used to be simple — miners thrived when bitcoin’s price soared, and when it fell, they suffered. But in 2024, that equation changed. Bitcoin ETFs, hashrate markets ...

secp256k1lab hopes to streamline the development process of cryptographic protocols for BIP proposals with a standard library for secp256k1. Until now, every Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) that ...