In the world of bitcoin mining, access to cheap and reliable electricity is everything.

Last week, Mozilla tweeted that it accepts cryptocurrency donations, which "led to an important discussion about cryptocurrency's environme...

The process of creating Bitcoin consumes around 96 terawatt-hours of electricity annually.

Cryptocurrencies have emerged as one of the most captivating, yet head-scratching, investments in the world. They soar in value. They crash...

Anhui will shut down all cryptomining projects in a cleanup aimed at reducing power consumption, as the province faces a "grave" supply sho...

China's regulatory assault on the digital currency has crypto watchers reaching for answers as to why Beijing is clamping down now and what...

China's central government vowed last week to crack down on bitcoin mining and trading, while this week Inner Mongolia, also a major mining...

Bitcoin took a beating after China's crypto-mining ban and is now down nearly 50% from it's all-time high. The latest shakeout in digital c...

"If Bitcoin was a country, it would use around the same amount of electricity a year to mine as Switzerland does in total," Deutsche Bank a...

Tesla can itself take an active role in helping make bitcoin greener by investing in new projects aimed at boosting the use of renewable en...

Elon Musk tweets a graph of bitcoin's power consumption, saying "Energy usage trend over past few months is insane." This, after he earlier...

Cheap and abundant power is essential to crypto miners, with coal accounting for an estimated 38 per cent of their supply, according to the...

Dozens of cities across Iran have witnessed frequent power cuts since early January. Iranian Minister of Energy Reza Ardekanian admitted th...

For a Bitcoin transfer to be executed and validated, a mathematical puzzle must be solved by an arbitrary computer in the global Bitcoin ne...

Bitcoin's burgeoning electricity demands have attracted almost as much attention as the cryptocurrency's wildly fluctuating value.

China is the biggest operator of computer “mines” and probably accounts for about a quarter of all the power used to create cryptocurrencie...

The answer — not yet. Bitcoin mining using Blockchain technology cannot be sustained with the current technology infrastructure.