A look at life for ether miners after the Merge, including repurposing obsolete equipment to mine other cryptocurrencies, host cloud services, and heat homes (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

Michael Kan / PCMag:
Many crypto miners are shutting off rigs and plan to sell their GPUs, as GPU-based mining for most cryptocurrencies becomes unprofitable after Ethereum’s Merge  —  Crypto-miners are shutting off their rigs and mulling selling their GPUs since few, if any, cryptocurrencies are currently profitable …

David Pan / Bloomberg:
Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining firm, will shut down its servers for miners after Ethereum’s Merge, switching its mining pool to withdraw-only mode  —  Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining services provider by computing power, will shut down its servers for miners after the blockchain completes its historic technical upgrade.

David Pan / Bloomberg:
As crypto miners default on loans, lenders could receive mining equipment as collateral, a popular financing tool, increasing losses as the rigs’ value plunges  —  Beleaguered crypto lenders are being dealt another blow from Bitcoin miners as they weather the aftermath of the FTX collapse.

Sunil Jagtiani / Bloomberg:
Crypto prices sink, with bitcoin dropping ~4% and ether ~7%, dragged down by the ongoing FTX saga, potential contagion, and the FTX hacker offloading ether  —  Cryptocurrency prices struggled Monday in the ongoing crisis sparked by the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried’s once powerful FTX empire.

Jaclyn Allen / TheDenverChannel.com:
Utility company Xcel locked 22,000 Colorado users in an energy saving program out of their smart thermostats for hours on August 30 citing an “energy emergency”  —  22,000 people lost control of temperatures in their homes for hours Tuesday  —  DENVER — During the dog days of summer …

Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
The FCC imposes a ban on equipment from Huawei and ZTE, camera providers Hikvision and Dahua, and radio maker Hytera, citing “a risk to national security”  —  US regulators imposed a ban on electronic equipment from Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., continuing a years-long effort …