South_agency / Getty Images Selfish mining is a deceitful cryptocurrency mining strategy in which one miner or a group solves a hash, opens a new block, and withholds it from the public blockchain.

The Mining Association of B.C. says the industry has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to boost public support for new mines, and it touting $90 billion worth of potential projects at a time ...

Peru is to impose a curfew and temporarily suspended gold mining in the northern district of Pataz where 13 people were killed after a kidnapping inside a gold mine. Mining in Pataz in Peru's ...

What just happened? Kuwait has declared cryptocurrency mining "illegal and unlicensed" as part of a broad crackdown to ease pressure on its strained power grid amid a worsening energy crisis.

The race to obtain bitcoin and other potentially lucrative cryptocurrencies is tied to a complex virtual process called “mining” — with high risks and high rewards for those who want to get ...

The era of easy profits from Bitcoin mining appears to have ended, replaced by a fiercely competitive industry where only the most efficient and resourceful players are likely to survive.

There are currently no regulations in place to oversee such mining as scientists warn that extracting minerals from vital ecosystems that help regulate climate change could cause permanent damage.

Talks between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United States to forge a “minerals-for-security” deal to help end violence in the country may threaten China’s mining ...

Tariffs of up to 54% on imported rigs could further squeeze Q2 profitability for certain mining operations. U.S. states may inject $10B in buying pressure if bitcoin strategic reserves proposals ...

Z Squared, a firm that specializes in mining dogecoin (DOGE), the dog-themed memecoin that was propelled to mainstream recognition by Elon Musk in 2021, is merging with biopharmaceutical company ...

A recent executive order would accelerate mining in little-understood undersea ecosystems. By Rebecca Dzombak Max Bearak and Harry Stevens Life at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is slow ...