Mining
Bitcoin miner Riot elevated its hash price in September by 16.7% (to five.6 exahashes per second) whereas increasing its Whinstone facility in Texas.
“We’ll stay centered on aggressively growing our deployed hash price as we work in direction of our aim of reaching 12.5 EH/s within the first quarter of 2023,” CEO Jason Les mentioned.
The corporate bought 300 BTC for a complete of about $6.1 million whereas producing 355 BTC (a 5% month-over-month lower) in September, which was the final month of its participation within the Electrical Reliability Council of Texas’ (ERCOT) 4CP program.
In June, the corporate mentioned that it made $9.5 million in energy credit — outweighing what it might have generated in mining revenues — for turning off machines on the time of peak demand for energy within the state.
Final month, the corporate sued Northern Knowledge over the Texas web site it purchased from the bitcoin miner in 2021.
Bitcoin miner CleanSpark additionally introduced Tuesday that it expanded its hashrate by 21%, reaching a complete of 4.16 EH/s on the finish of the month.