Nadia Levin
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits All-Time High Eleven Months After the Halving
The hashrate has fully absorbed the reward cut. New ASIC deployments in West Texas and Ethiopia are pushing the network's compute toward a new equilibrium.
DeFi Insurance Protocol Pays First Restaking Slash Claim in Under Nine Minutes
A small AVS misconfiguration led to a $1.4M slash across 62 restakers. Nexus Mutual's v4 policy paid out before most of the affected addresses noticed.
Kazakhstan Loses Another 1.2 GW of Hashrate as Power Allocation Policy Sours
The country, once the world's second-largest Bitcoin mining hub, has now lost roughly 70% of its peak hashrate. The latest exodus is driven by a new power tariff structure.
Ethiopia's Bitcoin Mining Capacity Doubles on Renaissance Dam Power
The country's total hashrate reached 4.1 EH/s in March, making it the fastest-growing mining jurisdiction in the world. The government sees the industry as a dollar-earning export.
Terminus Drains $38M a Week After Oversubscribed Launch
The team's wallet moved the entire treasury through a mixer on Sunday evening. On-chain sleuths flagged the activity within minutes; the team's Telegram went dark an hour later.
Foundry's Share of Bitcoin Hashrate Crosses 32%, Reviving Pool Centralization Debate
The U.S.-based mining pool now processes nearly a third of all Bitcoin blocks. Protocol-level discussions of pool-independent mining — including Stratum V2 — are moving faster as a result.
Kaleido ICO Whitelist Leak Exposes 38,000 KYC Records, Sale Postponed
An internal misconfiguration at the KYC vendor exposed names, addresses, and passport numbers of approved investors. The sale has been delayed three weeks pending remediation.