Bitfury Says Goodbye To Mining, Hello To A $1 Billion Tech Fund

Leading bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer BitFury has declared their interest in the investment game, with the announcement of a little something they're calling 'BitFury Capital'. As the name would suggest, the branch-off will serve as a seed investment fund. According to the company, "The fund will leverage BitFury's leading position in bitcoin and cryptocurrency infrastructure to accelerate other parts of the ecosystem through strategic partnerships, and expansion into adjacent business opportunities." This particular fund will be a subsidiary of BitFury Group, and it will reported....

Cryptocurrency mining hardware manufacturer BitFury on Wednesday announced a hosted mining service that will be available to all business customers (as opposed to a select few, we imagine). The company, which recently launched a seed investment fund, says that some 40 percent of all bitcoins are mined using BitFury chips, giving them an interesting and impressive track record. The move comes during a time in which self-mining with one's own hardware has become extremely cost-prohibitive, with constant hardware updates required and significant energy requirements. "We are a trusted partner....

One of bitcoin's biggest mining infrastructure providers, BitFury, has launched a new hosted mining service for business customers. The company claims the scheme will provide customers with "optimal and reliable" - but low-cost - hash power to maximise the return on their investment. BitFury says its ASICs and specialised mining hardware have established it as the market leader in both constructing and managing computing centres for mining operations. According to the company, approximately 40% of all bitcoins are mined using BitFury-made chips. DigitalBTC and CryptX became the first....

Bitcoin mining giant BitFury has announced it has completed the manufacturing of its anticipated 28nm ASIC chip. BitFury first revealed the development of the chip in the fall of last year, at the time raising $20m in funding for the project from investors including venture capitalist Bill Tai, current BitFury board member and former VeriFone CFO Bob Dykes and the Georgian Co-Investment Fund. CEO Valery Vavilov sought to frame the announcement as part of BitFury's overall drive to keep chip efficiency in line with the rising difficulty of the bitcoin mining network, calling the chip the....

Newly-launched BitFury Capital announced Friday that they have made their first investment into the bitcoin ecosystem since launching. A subsidiary of BitFury Group, BitFury Capital is a seed fund that launched in early July, and they say today they've made an investment in what has been described as a "prominent bitcoin wallet provider." Interestingly enough, BitFury Capital neglected to mention which wallet provider they invested in, and what the investment was valued at. "We are happy to mark our first investment into the Bitcoin ecosystem," said Marat Kicikov, managing director of....