Canaan Inc. announced the launch of a gas-to-computing pilot in Calgary, Alberta, that converts wellhead natural gas into low-cost power for high-density computing — a neat way to turn waste into watts.
U.S. equities surged on Monday as investor optimism returned to both traditional and digital asset markets. The Nasdaq climbed 490.18 points to 22,694.61, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 587.98 points to 46,067.58, and the S&P 500 rose 102.21 points to 6,654.72, signaling a broad-based recovery across major benchmarks.
Crypto investors might be nursing some serious portfolio bruises this week, but bitcoin miners have their own headache — earnings per petahash just hit a five-month low, and it’s not exactly the kind of milestone anyone’s celebrating.
Over the past two weeks, Bitcoin’s hashrate has fallen by nearly 100 exahashes per second (EH/s) — signaling a slowdown in global mining activity. This decline coincides with a $2 drop in mining revenue per petahash (PH/s) since last month, reflecting tighter profit margins for miners amid fluctuating network conditions.
On Tuesday, as the entire crypto market slipped more than 2.5%, publicly traded bitcoin miners (36 of them, but not all) strutted in the opposite direction, chalking up a 4% gain during the stock market’s trading session.
Canaan Inc. has secured a purchase order from a U.S.-based bitcoin miner for more than 50,000 of its latest Avalon A15 Pro mining machines, marking its largest order in three years.
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