Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cryptocurrency mining is booming, but not all mining operations are booming in the same way. A controversial crypto-mining ...

Alcoa will manage both the construction and operation of the production plant.

So, it should be quite concerning to find out that Bitcoin miners are now buying entire power plants in their effort to get rich on the speculative asset. A Pennsylvania-based holding company called ...

Albany, N.Y. — New York officials denied required air permit renewals Thursday to a bitcoin-mining power plant on the grounds that it was a threat to the state's climate goals. The permitting decision ...