Bitcoin Mining & ASIC News: Market, Hardware and Energy · Page 5
Mining news and original analysis with dated primary sources.
Grayscale's Bitcoin miners ETF shifts toward AI compute under GCPU
An SEC-filed Grayscale supplement sets September 22 for the planned MNRS-to-GCPU ticker and index change from Bitcoin miners to high-performance computing.
DxPool sets September 24 shutdown for its Monero mining pool
DxPool's official September 10 notice says XMR pool mining stops September 24 UTC. Users are told to switch pools and withdraw balances; the withdrawal cutoff remains unannounced.
Bitcoin hashprice rises 4.1% despite a higher mining difficulty
Luxor's September 21 snapshot puts spot hashprice at $40.93 per PH/s/day after a 4.16% difficulty increase. The dollar rebound is not a guarantee of net profit.
BITMAIN promotes S23e U2H with three hydro-cooling deployment options
The manufacturer's September 21 post pairs the 865 TH/s, 10 J/TH rack miner with HW7, AR30 or AR31 cooling. Shipment is projected for November 2026–January 2027, and one published capacity claim needs clarification.
DOE selects 21 geothermal projects as mining power demand grows
Five selected projects will test enhanced geothermal systems and 16 will drill for resource data. Up to $99 million is contemplated for initial work, but selections are not funding awards or new power for miners.
NERC computational-load standards pass initial ballot
NERC says foundational reliability standards for data centers, AI clusters and cryptocurrency facilities passed an initial ballot. Results still require validation and the standards process continues.
Bitcoin Core 32.0rc2 is tagged for another testing round
The signed v32.0rc2 tag was created September 18. It is a release candidate for testing, not the final 32.0 production release; mining and pool operators should verify builds and stage upgrades.
CleanSpark prices $2.276B secured notes for Sandersville buildout
The September 18 filing prices 7.875% senior secured notes due 2031 at 98.5% of principal. Closing is expected September 25 and remains subject to customary conditions.
ESP-Miner 2.15.3 prerelease fixes low-frequency warnings
The September 20 prerelease derives low-frequency warnings from each device preset. It is a narrow diagnostics fix, not a promised hashrate increase, and operators should stage-test before fleet deployment.
Stratum V2 releases harden shares, jobs and translator sessions
The coordinated stratum v1.12.0 and sv2-apps v0.8.0 releases harden share validation, bounded job storage and Sv1-to-Sv2 translation. Breaking crate changes require a staged, coordinated upgrade.
Bitcoin Core fixes invalid defaults in its OpenRPC description
Merged PR #36297 changes two OpenRPC metadata entries so generated clients see schema-valid defaults. It is development-tree metadata work, not a new stable release or a change to mining consensus.
DOE emergency order expands Carolinas grid options during late heat
The September 18–21 order lets Duke Energy Carolinas dispatch specified and backup resources when reliability is threatened. We explain what it means—and does not mean—for flexible mining loads.