Bitcoin Mining & ASIC News: Market, Hardware and Energy · Page 9
Mining news and original analysis with dated primary sources.
KuCoin pauses Monero deposits and withdrawals for wallet maintenance
KuCoin scheduled a temporary XMR deposit-and-withdrawal closure from 01:00 UTC on September 24 and says service will resume after maintenance, without publishing a completion time.
Canaan brings an 8 MW hash-to-heat case and Avalon home miners to BTCHEL
Canaan says a Nordic district-heating project using Avalon A1566HA miners is operating at 8 MW, while its BTCHEL stand will feature Nano 3S, Mini 3 and AvalonQ home systems. We separate the published specifications from the questions operators still need to verify.
Luxor launches a full-stack AI infrastructure business and opens a San Francisco office
Luxor is extending its mining-era energy, hardware, logistics and trading stack into AI infrastructure. The company names Tenki, physical compute contracts and OTC derivatives, but its launch release does not disclose contracted AI capacity or revenue.
PowerCompute plans a two-stage S19 XP fleet refresh
PowerCompute says 1,000 S19 XP miners are due in Oklahoma and 940 more were ordered for Mississippi, targeting 862 PH/s after installation while retaining explicit delivery and performance risk.
ICERIVER brings its custom-ASIC team to Korea Blockchain Week
ICERIVER says its chip-customization team will attend KBW 2026 in Seoul to discuss algorithm-specific ASIC design, hardware optimization and manufacturing coordination; no new retail miner was announced.
EU report maps data-centre efficiency and prepares common standards
The European Commission reviews the first EU reporting cycle for data centres, quantifies gaps in the evidence and sets out a rating scheme, simpler reporting and possible minimum performance standards.
IEA sets out a digital toolkit to use existing power grids better
A new IEA report explains how monitoring, control systems, grid-enhancing technologies and carefully governed AI can increase the safe use of transmission and distribution networks.
UNECE roadmap puts crypto mining inside large-load grid planning
UNECE calls for strategic integration of data centres, AI facilities, electrolyzers and cryptocurrency mines through conditional connections, fair tariffs, flexibility and transparent data.
Cuentas signs a staged 24 MW West Texas mining power agreement
A September 23 SEC filing describes up to ten 2.4 MW container sets and about 4,200 ASIC miners, with $0.05/kWh energy pricing, revenue share and an 80% take-or-pay floor.
Fortitude raises its DCG credit-facility ceiling to $50 million
The amendment lifts the commitment from $26 million to $50 million and leaves about $31 million available. Future advances may arrive in ZEC but remain dollar-denominated debt.
PNNL releases RATLLE method for large-load oscillation risk
PNNL-39459 presents a three-stage workflow for screening, simulation and severity analysis. Case studies show modeled 50 MW cyclic loads can excite wide-area grid modes at resonance.
LuxOS update adds S21++ support and a signed OTA index
Luxor's September 21 changelog adds new S21++ and S19 XP Hydro board support, Ed25519 verification for OTA indexes and fixes for nonce attribution, curtailment metrics and power targeting.