BlockOps Helena-West Helena Bitcoin Mine (Dragon Woodland sawmill site)

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

1. 2026

   Operating
   BlockOps' own site lists Helena-West Helena among its operating Arkansas sites as of 2026. No independent confirmation of an in-service date was located, so the operational date is recorded at year precision. Source: BlockOps Mining
2. March 6, 2025

   Permitted
   The Helena-West Helena City Council approved BlockOps' plan to convert the former Dragon Woodland Sawmill site at 129 N. Washington Street into a bitcoin mine: $2 million in renovation, about $13.5 million total once hardware is installed, 2,900 miners (about half BlockOps-owned and half hosted for third parties), 8 MW from Entergy, and an estimated $105,000 a year in city sales tax. The property cost about $300,000. Completion was projected 'as soon as the end of May' 2025. Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 21, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over BlockOps Helena-West Helena Bitcoin Mine (Dragon Woodland sawmill site) in Helena-West Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Power and water

Entergy told the company the city could allot 8 megawatts to the project, with a distribution-upgrade lead time of about 60 days; a roughly $500,000 substation investment was to be paid by the company. capacityMw.planned records that 8 MW allotment, which is an available-capacity figure from the utility rather than a measured operating load.

Notes on the record

Coordinates are an OpenStreetMap geocode of the street address named in the council coverage. precision is 'approximate', not 'exact': an address point is not a parcel footprint, and Nominatim returned two candidate points for this address about 450 m apart (34.5484515/-90.6556409 and 34.5444220/-90.6555170); the first is used. Acreage is contested in the council transcript, where the presenter cited both '168 acres under contract' and '116 acres' for the parcel; 168 is used as the figure the newspaper reported. BlockOps' headquarters is given as Austin, Texas by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and as Fayetteville by KATV - not resolved here. Status 'operational' rests on the company's own 2026 page plus the council-approved May 2025 completion target; no independent in-service confirmation was found, hence confidence 'reported'.

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