{"id":39803,"date":"2021-03-30T11:43:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T08:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39803"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:22:00","slug":"the9-to-expand-filecoin-mining-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/the9-to-expand-filecoin-mining-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"The9 to Expand Filecoin Mining Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nasdaq-listed The9 Ltd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/the9-signed-filecoin-mining-machine-purchase-and-hosting-agreement-to-enhance-filecoin-fil-mining-301258137.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signed<\/a> an agreement to purchase and deploy Filecoin (FIL) mining equipment worth $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>In February this year, the firm signed a framework agreement with another supplier of similar miners for $10 million. Its name is also not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The9 launched a node on the Filecoin blockchain and increased its storage capacity to 80 pebibytes.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/u1f987.com\/chto-takoe-filecoin\/<\/p>\n<p>The9&#8217;s decision was driven by the coin&#8217;s positive momentum and expectations for expanding use cases of Filecoin.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in March, the mining company boosted Bitcoin mining capacity after purchasing equipment from <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/the9-expands-mining-capacity-by-40-ph-s-through-microbt-hardware\">MicroBT<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/the9-acquires-24000-asic-miners-from-bitmain\"> Bitmain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nasdaq-listed The9 Ltd has signed an agreement to purchase and deploy Filecoin (FIL) mining equipment worth $2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39804,"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":[1137,1488,2079],"class_list":["post-39803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-filecoin-fil","tag-the9"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39805,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39803\/revisions\/39805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}