Bitfury to Sell Its 38% Stake in Bitcoin Miner Hut 8

The Yiazo YBF-M Bitfury Mining Mainboard Using the YBF14S-H Bitfury Miner Board. The mining industry is rapidly developing, and new manufacturers are working hard to bring their miners to market. One of the newest manufacturers is Yiazo. They have developed a new Blade Setup and controller board using Bitfury Rev 2 ASIC Miner chips. They are offered at a solid price point, and I was able to afford to buy a kit to review. The shipping gods graced me yet again with another non-beaten-up package and fast delivery all the way from the Netherlands. The specs are nice, and it is the controller....

BitFury Early Gen Units. BitFury has been on a roll this year with over $40 million in venture capital funding, as well as the addition of Jonathan Teo and Dr. Jackson Hu to their Strategic Advisory Board. To top it all off they added President and Chief Strategy Officer for Samsung Electronics Young Sohn to their Advisory Board. BitFury has emphasized that they are not a mining company, but a technology company: BitFury has set their sites on being more than a chip maker. With all this in mind, we were able to ask BitFury CEO Valery Vavilov through email about their next gen Bitcoin ASIC....

Bitcoin mining giant BitFury has today announced a ‘strategic investment’ through its investment arm BitFury Capital in BitPesa, a Pan-African and universal payment and bitcoin trading platform. The BitFury Group, the best-funded miner in the Bitcoin industry through investments has today announced an investment of its own in African bitcoin payment and trading platform BitPesa. As a payments processor, BitPesa enables users in Africa to buy and sell local African currencies through Bitcoin. The settlement directly occurs to and from African bank and mobile money accounts. The use of....

Bitcoin's biggest miner, BitFury, says it is launching the world's largest two-phase immersion cooling project. As part of its new $100m data centre in the Republic of Georgia, the firm will cool more than 40MW of processing power in 3M's engineered 'Novec' fluid. Masterminded by Allied Control, the immersion cooling startup BitFury acquired in January, the project will help the miner reduce energy costs as it continues its rapid expansion. BitFury CEO Valery Vavilov said in a statement: "We've taken many steps to optimize our infrastructure for securing the blockchain and blockchain....

BitFury has completed manufacturing their new 28nm Bitcoin ASIC miner chip. This a big step from their current 55nm chip. BitFury had a great 2014 bringing in $40 million in venture capital funding. Valery Vavilov, the CEO of BitFury, has also made moves to other parts of the Bitcoin industry partnering with BitGo and looking beyond just processing Bitcoin transactions. Also Read: Bitcoin Mining Company BitFury to Acquire Allied Control For Immersion Cooling. The details of the chip have been discussed since last fall. The current spiking of the global hash rate speculation is that it was....