{"id":40569,"date":"2021-04-12T11:51:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T08:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40569"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:47:00","slug":"blockcap-to-open-texas-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/blockcap-to-open-texas-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockcap to open Texas headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American mining company Blockcap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/former-texas-governor-welcomes-bitcoin-leader-to-austin-301266085.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> plans to open a headquarters in the state of Texas and to expand its fleet to 42,000 devices for mining Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Blockcap currently generates more than six bitcoins per day, using about 10,000 miners, according to the press release. The current hash rate is estimated at 0.95 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives said that once all equipment is deployed, the hash rate would rise to 3.5 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Blockcap <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/foundry-digital-backs-blockcap-with-75-million-funding\">attracted $75 million<\/a> from Foundry Digital and Off The Chain Capital to expand its Bitcoin mining fleet.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2021, the American company agreed to supply <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/canaan-sells-8400-asic-miners-to-u-s-firm-blockcap\">8,400 devices<\/a> from Canaan. Prior to that, it purchased <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-company-blockcap-buys-10000-antminer-s19-miners\">10,000 miners<\/a> Antminer S19 from Bitmain.<\/p>\n<p>Blockcap <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/foundry-digital-opens-mining-pool-for-institutional-clients\">became a client<\/a> of the Foundry Digital mining pool, a subsidiary of Barry Silbert&#8217;s Digital Currency Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American mining company Blockcap has announced plans to open a headquarters in Texas and to expand its fleet to 42,000 devices for mining Bitcoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40570,"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":[2160,1137,26],"class_list":["post-40569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockcap","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40569","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=40569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40571,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40569\/revisions\/40571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}