Mining is the process of adding and validating transaction records on the Bitcoin public blockchain ledger while securing uptime for the network. This is how the network persists without relying ...

Bitcoin mining involves solving complex mathematical puzzles, validating transactions and securing the network. Miners compete to find the correct hash, adding new blocks to the blockchain and ...

Bitcoin mining is open to anyone, though technical and financial barriers have grown over the years. Miners can only produce new Bitcoins until reaching the supply cap of 21,000,000 BTC. Bitcoin ...

South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pre-emptive tariff threat several weeks ago against the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, among others) who want to usurp the U.S. dollar ...

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, police pulled out 60 bodies as part of a search-and-rescue ...

The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s steel industry. It kept running until the very last moment, when Russian forces finally reached its gates.

Those living in and around the Scottish Highlands may have caught a glimpse of something not seen in that part of the world for hundreds of years: the lynx. At least two creatures were spotted roaming ...

He has received funding from the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund at the University of Oxford to study public perceptions of lynx reintroduction to Scotland. Hanna Pettersson does not work for ...

Barrick Gold Corp. said it’s suspending mining operations in Mali after the government started removing gold from the nation’s biggest mine in the latest escalation of a months-long dispute.