{"id":35491,"date":"2021-01-28T09:40:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T07:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35491"},"modified":"2025-08-29T01:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:33:32","slug":"blockstream-buys-25-million-worth-of-whatsminer-bitcoin-miners-from-microbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/blockstream-buys-25-million-worth-of-whatsminer-bitcoin-miners-from-microbt\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockstream buys $25 million worth of WhatsMiner Bitcoin miners from MicroBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blockstream has purchased $25 million worth of WhatsMiner Bitcoin miners from Shenzhen-based MicroBT.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019re excited to announce our $25M purchase of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MicroBT?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MicroBT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> mining hardware. This hardware will be deployed across our \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 &#038; \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 facilities. With >300 MW in capacity &#038; growing institutional demand, we\u2019ll continue to expand aggressively throughout 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gWIrD9r1ot\">https:\/\/t.co\/gWIrD9r1ot<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XyKQNv7zcU\">pic.twitter.com\/XyKQNv7zcU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blockstream (@Blockstream) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blockstream\/status\/1354493977102331910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;With more than 300 megawatts of mining capacity and growing institutional demand, we will continue to aggressively expand in 2021,&#8221; said company representatives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The devices will be deployed at Blockstream facilities in Canada and the United States. Technical specifications, delivery timelines and deployment of the ASIC miners are unknown.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Blockstream currently offers mining services to companies seeking turnkey solutions. Among our clients are Fidelity&#8217;s Center for Applied Technologies (FCAT), LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and many others,&#8221; the company said in a blog post.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, MicroBT <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/microbt-opens-service-centre-for-asic-miners-in-kazakhstan\">opened<\/a> a service centre for residents of the CIS at Kazakhstan&#8217;s largest data centre, Enegix.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockstream has purchased $25 million worth of WhatsMiner Bitcoin miners from the Shenzhen-based MicroBT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[307,1137,1728,1888],"class_list":["post-35491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockstream","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-microbt","tag-whatsminer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35493,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35491\/revisions\/35493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}