{"id":85842,"date":"2023-10-17T16:13:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T13:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85842"},"modified":"2025-09-13T01:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:50:16","slug":"media-bitmain-fires-three-employees-over-leak-of-corporate-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/media-bitmain-fires-three-employees-over-leak-of-corporate-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Bitmain fires three employees over leak of corporate information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese mining firm Bitmain fired three employees over the \u201cillegal publication of the company&#8217;s salary announcement.\u201d The report cites Colin Wu, according to BlockBeats.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bitmain announced that it had fired four employees who leaked the content of the above announcement because of &#8220;illegal publication of the company&#8217;s announcement on salary release.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hxiyMJLluK\">https:\/\/t.co\/hxiyMJLluK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t0xY257ekn\">https:\/\/t.co\/t0xY257ekn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WuBlockchain\/status\/1714236423287824831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The journalist wrote about four employees fired, but the outlet said three. According to a screenshot of the notice, Bitmain \u201creserves the right to legally pursue all involved parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On October 8, reports surfaced in the media that the firm partially <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-reports-on-bitmains-financial-problems\">failed to pay<\/a> salaries for September due to difficult financial circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The company cited negative cash flow during the month. According to Bitmain, by the time the news was published the miner had already paid off most of the debt, and only \u201csome people\u201d did not receive full payments.<\/p>\n<p>In early October the Australian bitcoin miner Iris Energy announced the purchase from Bitmain <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/iris-energy-to-spend-19-6-million-on-purchase-of-7000-bitcoin-miners\">7,000 units of Antminer S21 for $19.6 million<\/a> \u2014 at $14 per TH\/s. The Chinese manufacturer granted the firm a one-year payment deferral of $2.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month the US cryptocurrency mining company CleanSpark <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cleanspark-to-buy-antminer-s21-bitcoin-mining-rigs-totaling-4-4-eh-s\">announced<\/a> plans to acquire new mining devices from Bitmain with a total hashrate of 4.4 EH\/s. Shipments are set to begin in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, Bitmain <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitmain-invests-54-million-in-bitcoin-miner-core-scientific\">agreed<\/a> to invest $53.9 million in Core Scientific under a contract to supply 27,000 Bitcoin-mining devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese mining firm Bitmain fired three employees over the &#8216;illegal publication of the company&#8217;s salary announcement&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85843,"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":[426,1276],"class_list":["post-85842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitmain","tag-layoffs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85842","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=85842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85844,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85842\/revisions\/85844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}