{"id":41858,"date":"2021-05-04T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T11:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41858"},"modified":"2025-08-30T20:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:40:03","slug":"blockcap-plans-to-deploy-50000-miners-by-the-end-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/blockcap-plans-to-deploy-50000-miners-by-the-end-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockcap plans to deploy 50,000 miners by the end of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American mining company Blockcap<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/blockcap-surpasses-50-000-bitcoin-miners-adds-ethereum-miners-301282353.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> announced<\/a> that it has purchased 8,000 Bitcoin mining devices and plans to deploy 50,000 miners by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s fleet currently comprises 12,176 devices. It generates more than 6.6 BTC per day (~$372,000 at the rate at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<p>In the autumn of 2021, Blockcap expected deliveries of Ethereum mining equipment. Once commissioned, its total hashrate would stand at 1,229 TH\/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 company<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. Later Blockcap announced plans<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/blockcap-to-open-texas-headquarters\"> to open a headquarters<\/a> in the state of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Bitcoin miners&#8217; revenue from fees rose by 47% month-on-month \u2014 from $167.2 million to $247 million. Despite this, total inflows declined by 3%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/0vA0isAQUKq4bGPce8DoRrBzjeF1N1Je2KhjJHHxN9dtq_hopMJ_71A08zaE56c0P0zf6XBeZGEpGujZUCsh9vIZOYWlTW6zghYJJuSh0bZfZO__DLJO8SDQ5GMTuM98j5q8Ipo9\" alt=\"Blockcap announces launch of 50,000 miners by end-2022\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Bitcoin&#8217;s hashrate in April rose 8.9%. After the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hashrate-slump-overheated-market-and-cascade-of-liquidations-what-is-driving-bitcoins-price-decline\">drop<\/a> in the indicator due to outages in Sichuan, China, the block interval matched the peak levels seen in November 2020.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/Ysw-Ln0dG2bAwrGXUnQTyfCKAC-ZTjYtxmGk1B7jTPns8Mgt2XCXQ1eYJUlk3BekcW9oi0evXbmPiGwVpJaGy4OlkQu6_c77Cv04zp4pLw7lWHSRpnMLNFv4HOHDTgS0N-7MMq4p\" alt=\"Blockcap announces launch of 50,000 miners by end-2022\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-05-04-v-14.07.22-1024x229.png\" alt=\"Blockcap announces launch of 50,000 miners by end-2022\" class=\"wp-image-133743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-05-04-v-14.07.22-1024x229.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-05-04-v-14.07.22-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-05-04-v-14.07.22-768x172.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-05-04-v-14.07.22.png 1412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: BitInfoCharts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As reported on April 27, Bitmain&#8217;s AntPool<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/antpool-tops-the-hash-rate\"> led<\/a> in hash rate over a 24-hour window.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockcap announced the purchase of 8,000 Bitcoin mining devices and plans to deploy 50,000 miners by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41859,"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],"class_list":["post-41858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockcap","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41858","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=41858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41860,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41858\/revisions\/41860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}