BlockOps Moreland Bitcoin Mine

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 and a 2025 city-council presentation both list Moreland among its operating Arkansas sites. Source: BlockOps Mining
2. March 10, 2024

   Under construction
   KATV reported BlockOps, which already had a mine in Russellville, was establishing a site in Moreland directly across the street from Moreland First Baptist Church. Source: KATV

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Organized local opposition to BlockOps Moreland Bitcoin Mine in Moreland, Pope County, Arkansas is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. KATV reported that 'in the rural Pope County community of Moreland, not one but two cryptomines are setting up shop, much to the dismay of some locals,' and that 'Block Op's new site is even closer to Moreland First Baptist than Moreland Holding LLC's - directly across the street.' Church and community concerns centred on noise during Sunday services and on grid power draw; locals formed a committee protesting Act 851.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.

KATV reported that 'in the rural Pope County community of Moreland, not one but two cryptomines are setting up shop, much to the dismay of some locals,' and that 'Block Op's new site is even closer to Moreland First Baptist than Moreland Holding LLC's - directly across the street.' Church and community concerns centred on noise during Sunday services and on grid power draw; locals formed a committee protesting Act 851. Moreland has no planning commission or municipal government, so the sites faced little local oversight.

Source: KATV

Notes on the record

Coordinates are the OpenStreetMap point for Moreland First Baptist Church, the only landmark any source gives for this site ('directly across the street'); the pin is therefore the church, not the mine, and precision is approximate. This is a DIFFERENT site from moreland-holding-moreland-ar, which is a separate cryptomine in the same community under a different, reportedly Chinese-owned entity - KATV states plainly that two cryptomines were setting up in Moreland and distinguishes their distances from the church. The two records are deliberately given different pins so they are not conflated. No capacity, acreage or investment figure has been published for this site.

Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

• Moreland Holding Cryptomine · Moreland · Moreland Holding LLCunder 1 mile · Proposed · Opposed
• BlockOps Russellville Bitcoin Mine · Russellville · BlockOps10 mi · Operating
• Serverfarm ARK Clarksville Data Center Campus · Clarksville · Serverfarm26 mi · Under construction · 432 MW · Mixed reception

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