KnCMiner is a Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer that designed and sold mining equipment before expanding into industrial-scale mining operations, and was later acquired following a bankruptcy filing by its parent company. KnCMiner's Twitter Score is 17 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #65,332 among 531,432 tracked accounts.
KnCMiner was co-founded by Sam Cole and Andreas Kennemar and began selling Bitcoin mining hardware before launching industrial-scale mining in February 2014. The company completed a tape-out of a 16nm mining chip with Alchip at TSMC, representing a notable step in custom silicon development for cryptocurrency mining. KnCMiner had previously been backed by Creandum, which led a $14 million Series A announced in September 2014, and by Accel Partners, which led a $15 million Series B announced in February 2015. GP Bullhound and Martin Wattin were also former backers of the company.
KnCMiner's parent company, KnC Group, filed for bankruptcy in Sweden in May 2016. That same year, a customer class-action lawsuit submitted a claim against the company's Swedish bankruptcy estate. A preliminary sale of KnCMiner to GoGreenLight was approved in August 2016. KnCMiner had also previously operated joint ventures with ORSoC AB and Kennemar and Cole AB. The account has published 889 posts and has been mentioned by 94 accounts, with 239 total mentions.
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