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NASA-Backed Startup to Try Ingenious Asteroid Mining Idea: Just Bag It (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-19 | get Asteroid Mining Kit → | tags: nasa, transastra, asteroid mining

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A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-18 | get Asteroid Mining Kit → | tags: transastra, new moon, asteroid capture

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AI Agent Goes Rogue, Starts Mining Crypto to Amass Funds (futurism.com)

2026-03-10 | by Joe Wilkins | get AI Cryptocurrency Mining Kit → | tags: ai agents, alibaba, crypto mining

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Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-08 | by Anthony Ha | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: ice detention facility, bitcoin mining, target hospitality

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Solo Bitcoin Mining: Your Next Passive Income Play (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-09 | by Entrepreneur Store | get Cryptocurrency → | tags: bitaxe, bitcoin, blockchance

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Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment (futurism.com)

2026-02-05 | by Victor Tangermann | get GPU → | tags: bitcoin, bloomberg, crypto

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Microbes could extract the metal needed for cleantech (technologyreview.com)

2026-02-03 | by Matt Blois | get Bioplastics → | tags: engineering, microbes, mining

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Trump administration plans $12bn critical minerals stockpile to offset China supply risk — initiative to create 60-day reserve of rare earths for electronics manufacturing (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-02 | by Luke James | get Rare Earths → | tags: billion, critical, manufacturers

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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Bitcoin Miners About Strategic Growth (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-29 | by Abdumalik Mirakhmedov | get Blockchain → | tags: bitcoin, build, building

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Trump is steamrolling global calls for a moratorium on deep-sea mining (theverge.com)

2026-01-21 | by Justine Calma | get Ocean Cleanup → | tags: administration, deep, deep sea

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Trump is steamrolling global calls for a moratorium on deep sea mining (theverge.com)

2026-01-21 | by Justine Calma | get Ocean Cleanup → | tags: administration, deep, deep sea

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Solo-Mine Bitcoin From Your Desk With This $60 Lottery Ticket Machine (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-20 | get Bitcoin Miner → | tags: bitcoin, block, blockchance

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Amazon is buying copper harvested by bacteria for its data centers (theverge.com)

2026-01-15 | by Stevie Bonifield | get Bioreactor → | tags: amazon, bioleaching, centers

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Tech investors assess minerals mining as U.S. takeover talk on Greenland grows, CEO tells CNBC (cnbc.com)

2026-01-12 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get Minerals → | tags: cnbc, greenland, investors

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This $59 Device Lets You Solo-Mine Bitcoin From Your Desk (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-09 | get Hardware Wallet → | tags: bitcoin, blockchance, doesn

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This Water Heater Mines Bitcoin. It Could Help Solve AI's Energy Problem (cnet.com)

2026-01-07 | by See Full Bio | get Smart Water Heater → | tags: bitcoin, computer, heater

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Russia cracks down on 'illegal' cryptomining with prison terms up to five years — Kremlin will begin prosecuting in 2027 (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-30 | by Anton Shilov | get Bitcoin → | tags: cryptocurrency, illegal, large

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Bitcoin Miners' Pivot To AI Has Lifted Bitcoin-Mining ETF By About 90% This Year (slashdot.org)

2025-12-25 | get Blockchain → | tags: bitcoin, bitcoin mining, data centers

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World’s oldest Bitcoin Mining Pool celebrates 15th anniversary, has mined 1,311,339 bitcoins worth $115 billion — group has 255 billion times more hash power than at inception (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Mark Tyson | get Bitcoin mining pool → | tags: billion, bitcoin, braiins pool

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Bitcoin Miners Thrive Off a New Side Hustle: Retooling Their Data Centers for AI (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2025-12-24 | get Data Center → | tags: ai lifted, bitcoin, bitcoin mining

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'$100 Steam Machine' uses a cut-down PS5 APU with Bazzite — DIY console offers 60 FPS at 1080p with 16GB of GDDR6 (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Aaron Klotz | get Steam Machine → | tags: eta prime, machine, mining

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Amazon: Ongoing cryptomining campaign uses hacked AWS accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-17 | get AWS → | tags: amazon, attacker, cryptomining

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America’s Biggest Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting to AI (wired.com)

2025-12-09 | by Joel Khalili | get Blockchain → | tags: bitcoin, bitcoin mining, compute

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Bitcoin Miners on the Run After Stealing $1.1 Billion in Electricity (futurism.com)

2025-12-06 | by Victor Tangermann | get Electricity Generators → | tags: bitcoin, bitcoin mining, electricity

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In Myanmar, illicit rare-earth mining is taking a heavy toll (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-01 | get Rare earth magnets → | tags: china, earth, earth mining

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ShadowRay 2.0 Turns AI Clusters into Crypto Botnets (darkreading.com)

2025-11-24 | get ShadowRay → | tags: actor, actor leveraging, ai infrastructure

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Hobbyist solo miner scores a full Bitcoin block worth $270,000 despite 1 in 180 million odds — 3.146 Bitcoins mined by a single low-powered 6 TH/s ASIC with about 0.0000007% of the network’s hashrate (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-23 | by Luke James | get Bitcoin → | tags: block, ckpool, miner

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Homeland Security Is Reportedly Probing Bitcoin Mining Giant Bitmain for National Security Reasons (gizmodo.com)

2025-11-23 | get Bitcoin Miner → | tags: bitcoin, bitcoin mining, bitmain

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Homeland Security thinks Chinese firm's Bitcoin mining chips could be used for espionage or to sabotage the power grid — Bitmain probed by U.S. gov't over national security concerns (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-22 | by Jowi Morales | get Bitcoin mining chips → | tags: bitmain, chinese, intelligence

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New ShadowRay attacks convert Ray clusters into crypto miners (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-11-18 | get Crypto Miner → | tags: mining, oligo, researchers