{"id":8996,"date":"2025-01-22T04:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T04:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=8996"},"modified":"2025-01-22T04:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T04:46:38","slug":"us-bitcoin-miners-boost-mining-capacity-capture-30-of-global-hash-rate-mara-holdings-sees-sharp-jump-in-btc-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=8996","title":{"rendered":"US Bitcoin Miners Boost Mining Capacity, Capture 30% Of Global Hash Rate \u2014 MARA Holdings Sees Sharp Jump In BTC Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Leading U.S.-based firms were competing hard to mine more <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), with many increasingly retaining the newly-created coins for long-term benefits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: American Bitcoin mining companies added nearly 16 ExaHash per second of mining capacity, or an 8% increase, from November-end up to Jan. 15, according to a JPMorgan research report released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The total hash rate, or the computational power needed to validate transactions and mine new Bitcoins, has more than doubled to 238 EH\/s year-over-year. With this, U.S. miners control over 30% of the global network hash rate, marking a 9% increase in market share since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/what-is-bitcoin-halving#:~:text=TL%3BDR%3A%20The%20Bitcoin%20halving,the%20price%20of%20Bitcoin%20soaring.\">April&#8217;s halving<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The growth was led by the world&#8217;s biggest Bitcoin miner, <strong>MARA Holdings Inc.<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/MARA#NASDAQ\">MARA<\/a>), which saw a 7.1 EH\/s increase in hash rate. <strong>CleanSpark Inc.<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/CLSL#NASDAQ\">CLSL<\/a>) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/43119109\/us-bitcoin-miners-boost-mining-capacity-capture-30-of-global-hash-rate-mara-holdings-sees-\" alt=\"US\" bitcoin miners boost mining capacity capture of global hash rate mara holdings sees sharp jump in btc balance>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading U.S.-based firms were competing hard to mine more Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), with many increasingly retaining the newly-created coins for long-term benefits. What happened: American Bitcoin mining companies added nearly 16 ExaHash per second of mining capacity, or an 8% increase, from November-end up to Jan. 15, according to a JPMorgan research report released Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-8996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}