Bitcoin Mining & ASIC News: Market, Hardware and Energy · Page 14
Mining news and original analysis with dated primary sources.
DOE orders Schahfer units available to MISO through December 18
The emergency order starts September 20 and concerns grid reliability, not a special rule for miners. Flexible-load operators should review curtailment and tariff assumptions.
Bitcoin Core fixes pruning startup race for newly enabled indexes
Merged PR #36150 prevents a node from pruning blocks before a newly enabled index can synchronize. The change is in master and should not be confused with an installed release.
Bitcoin difficulty rises 4.16% to 132.76 trillion at block 967,680
The September 19 retarget raises the work required per block; miners should separate difficulty impact from price, fees, uptime and power cost.
Bitcoin Core adds bestblockhash to getmininginfo to avoid template races
Merged change lets mining software obtain the tip hash and next-target data from one consistent RPC snapshot.
SEC grants five-year conditional pathway for tokenized U.S. stock venues
The temporary exemption permits limited permissioned AMM trading under symbol, volume, rights, disclosure and trading-halt conditions.
ESP-Miner 2.15.2 adds BM1372 and BM1373 support for Bitaxe
The stable release expands chip support and fixes networking and interface issues; operators should match firmware assets to the exact board.
Firominer 1.4.0 restores AMD support and adds verifiable packages
Firo’s open-source FiroPoW miner now targets current NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, with no developer fee and solo-mining support.
Why pool vardiff can strand a slowing Bitcoin miner
Bitcoin Optech summarizes a controller failure mode: if difficulty changes only when a share arrives, a slowed miner may wait too long for the next share.
Braiins OS 26.09: cold-start fixes and PSU temperature logs
The September 16 firmware release improves startup diagnostics for supported Antminers. We explain control-board differences and a practical farm update checklist.
Sazmining uses contracted hashrate while physical ASIC miners ship
A September 15 case study explains the seven-day hashing promise. We distinguish virtual hashrate, physical delivery, contract costs and unproven retention claims.
Bitcoin ETFs regain $159.5 million after two days of outflows
Farside reports $159.5 million of net inflows on September 17. We calculate the remaining three-day deficit and explain why ETF flows are not miner revenue.
Braiins Toolbox 26.09: automatic ASIC list refresh and CLI fixes
The September 14 release refreshes known miners automatically. We explain the difference between refreshing data and discovering devices, plus checks for farm operators.