Bitcoin Mining & ASIC News: Market, Hardware and Energy · Page 6
Mining news and original analysis with dated primary sources.
Eurostat puts EU household electricity near €0.28/kWh: home miners need their own tariff
The October 30 release reports a 2.2% decline in the first half of 2026 from the previous half-year. This is newly published historical data, not an October tariff cut; country averages still differ sharply.
New Zealand’s new tariff-data rules make electricity plans easier to identify
Rules effective October 30 introduce plan identification codes and cover still-active legacy plans. Home miners can compare the actual contract with their operating hours; broader billing reforms have a later implementation deadline.
Fortitude’s 15 MW Aurora mine joins SPP demand response: why hosting uptime needs context
The October 29 announcement says Aurora can adjust electricity use under SPP dispatch and market signals. This is participation by an existing facility, not a new 15 MW build or proof of a specific saving for each hosted miner.
Binance reports a $6.3 billion security incident: deposits are normal, withdrawals remain paused
The exchange’s corrected October 30 notice separates normal deposits from paused withdrawals. For mining payouts, a credited exchange balance and funds available for withdrawal are different things.
Keryx prepares for H15: Windows NVIDIA miners need the 0.15.2 fix
The October 28 hotfix repairs model loading on Windows NVIDIA ahead of the H15 gate expected around October 30. Activation depends on mainnet DAA score 140115000, not a wall-clock alarm.
Fake AI installers run a hidden miner: Check Point explains the Yoba campaign
The October 27 investigation found fake GitHub AI applications packaging malware beside genuine signed binaries. The observed final payload was XMRig, installed without the user choosing to mine.
Bitcoin difficulty rises 5.54% to 148.36 trillion: the forecast is now a real adjustment
Block 973728, timestamped October 29 at 19:14:58 UTC, starts the new difficulty epoch. At unchanged hashrate, the subsidy-only expected BTC yield per unit of work falls about 5.25%.
SRBMiner 3.8.2 revises the power tuner and targets NVIDIA 5000-series Pearl mining
The October 29 release improves the efficiency tuner, lists minor pearlhash improvements for NVIDIA 5000-series GPUs and fixes bugs. It supplies no numerical speed or power-saving guarantee.
Ofgem plans energy-debt relief for spring 2027: what home miners should check now
The October 29 announcement targets hardship and crisis-era debt in Great Britain, alongside billing and payment reforms. It changes the outlook for household bills, not the current electricity price of a mining rig.
Bitcoin Core fixes three node vulnerabilities: check the version, OS and storage
October 28 advisories identify two memory-exhaustion issues and an impractical undo-file attack. Fixes are in 29.5, 30.4, 31.2 and 32.1, with remaining limits on 32-bit systems and FAT32.
Singapore police report S$3.5 million lost through tampered Ledger wallets
An October 28 police advisory describes at least two cases reported since September 10 and malicious components found in retail-bought devices. Mining payouts need a trustworthy receiving wallet as well as a correct address.
QBT reports live mining tests on an Antminer S9 and Bitaxe Gamma; measured gains are still pending
The October 29 update says Methods A, B and C are mining through pools on different test platforms. It describes comparison rigs and remote control software, not a consumer firmware launch or a proven profit increase.