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One of crypto’s largest exchanges is walking away from bitcoin mining infrastructure at the exact moment Wall Street can’t get enough of the asset itself.

Crypto investor Nic Carter’s worst-case quantum scenario consists of a hostile actor recovering the keys to dormant Bitcoin, then broadcasting a wave of spends across 10 blocks.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says Bitcoin’s latest bottom is already in, even as the cryptocurrency remains below a level that historically confirmed recoveries.

Most crypto-related stocks have climbed during Bitcoin’s bull run, but shares of Bitcoin mining companies have remained conspicuously weak.

Plattsburgh, New York, is once again in the spotlight over its approach to power-hungry technology. Eight years after becoming one of the first U.S. cities to outright ban Bitcoin mining, the town is now weighing a new, broader restriction that would freeze approvals for high energy computing facilities, including artificial intelligence data centers. The proposed…

CleanSpark, a leading data center developer, reported strong progress in Bitcoin mining and operations as of August 31, 2026. The company is advancing construction at its Sandersville site with $6.6 billion in contracted revenue and received conditional batch zero classification from ERCOT for 885 MW of capacity across two Texas sites. In August, CleanSpark produced…