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The company had previously raised $7 million that went into deploying more than 1,000 mining rigs. origin »
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Publicly traded companies went all-in on Bitcoin in 2021 led by Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy. Other firms on the list include Square, Marathon Digital Holding, and Hut 8 Mining Corp. Other entities like governments, private companies, and individuals make up a healthy chunk of BTC holdlers.
2022-1-2 13:29 | |
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On Thursday, investor expectations ran high as Ethereum’s major hard fork upgrade went down. The upgrade which was essentially aimed at making improvements to five Ethereum proposals EIPs (EIP-1559) is expected to change and increase the speed of transactions and improve the incentivization of mining Ethereum.
2021-8-7 20:39 | |
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According to an announcement from MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, the controversial Bitcoin mining council went online on Thursday, June 11. The council’s goal is to reshape the crypto mining industry’s dynamics by promoting energy-efficient mining solutions.
2021-6-11 19:00 | |
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Following the bitcoin rate, shares of Canaan, Chinese manufacturer of mining equipment traded on the US exchange, went to the moon. Within 24 hours, its shares jumped in price by 37%.
2021-3-16 00:38 | |
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Soon after Ethereum's price went past the crucial $1400-level a few days back, it fell down the charts. However, despite the scale of price corrections, the cryptocurrency was continuing to trade closThe post Ethereum's mining difficulty, hashrate hit new all-time highs appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-1-23 12:30 | |
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Thousands of mining servers and all the datacenter infrastructure needed to operate them will be auctioned off in an upcoming public sale of Hyperblock’s property. The company has announced on Thursday, May 14, 2020, that its 20MW Montana, USA datacenter went offline and that it has ceased all cryptocurrency mining operations.
2020-5-21 13:00 | |
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Riot Blockchain saw its Bitcoin mining revenues soar 70% in the first quarter of 2020, the biotech turned-Bitcoin mining firm has revealed In a disclosure filed with the U. S. Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), Riot Blockchain has disclosed that its revenue from Bitcoin mining went up 70% in the first quarter of 2020.
2020-5-13 19:07 | |
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Bitcoin pioneered mining when it first went live in 2008, and it’s still one of the most popular coins among crypto miners. Mining serves various essential purposes: it provides security...The post How to Mine Bitcoin: Complete Guide For Beginners appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-4-26 22:04 | |
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Bitcoin Cash mining pools had mixed reactions to BTC.top CEO Jiang Zhuoer’s proposal to have them donate 12.5% of mining rewards to fund the blockchain’s development. Outcries of "taxation" and "eThe post 51% of Bitcoin Cash mined since yesterday went to BTC.top appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-2-5 20:30 | |
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On Jan. 22nd Bitcoin started dropping and today we went to nearly $8,200 level. Currently, we are hovering around $8,400 while managing the daily trading volume of $786 million, as per Messari. Just like price, the hash rate of the network is also staying around 118 Th/s, down from 126 Th/s on Jan. 17, the […]
2020-1-24 21:32 | |
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Ethereum went through a network update that delays the difficulty bomb. Although the mining difficulty will remain the same, different technical analysts are starting to turn bullish on ETH. The Muir Glacier update On Jan.
2020-1-3 04:11 | |
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It is no secret that early Ethereum (ETH) ICO buyers later became whales and potential multi-millionaires. But the project also seemed extremely generous to its developers. Ethereum Devs Got Paid for Short-Term Involvement Ethereum, which went through multiple phases of pre-mining, actual mining, and as much as eight hard forks, has always been accompanied by the guidance of Vitalik Buterin and a small, fluctuating team of developers.
2019-12-28 15:10 | |
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Ethereum's much-awaited Istanbul hard fork recently went live on the network at block 9,068,000, with SparkPool mining the fork block. While the eighth network update, Istanbul, was deemed to be a sucThe post Ethereum smart contract calls increasingly running out of gas post-Istanbul appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-12-10 15:00 | |
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GRIN was launched in January 15, 2019, and was one of the most hyped launches in the history of cryptocurrency. The altcoin employs a new mining algorithm called MimbleWimble and, similar to Bitcoin, the publisher of the whitepaper remained anonymous.
2019-10-15 14:55 | |
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Adding to China’s list of crypto-disasters this year, a local mining farm has allegedly caught fire for reasons that are yet to revealed. The disaster that befell the Innosilicon-powered data center’s was first reported on Twitter by @OGBTC, who tweeted, “The big datacenter from Innosilicon just went nuclear $BTC“ The above image was posted as […] The post Bitcoin mining farm in China allegedly burns down as coin records minor fall in hash rate appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-10-1 08:41 | |
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The Litecoin network was a boom-and-bust story in the summer of 2019. Miners started to abandon the coin as soon as the block reward went through a halving on August 5. Litecoin Reward Halving Dispersed Miners The cutoff date for Litecoin mining arrived exactly on August 5, when the block reward fell from 25 LTC to 12.
2019-9-11 18:30 | |
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Bitcoin proponents have reacted angrily to what they warn is a fresh attempt to make US Congress ban public cryptocurrencies. Murray: US Should Treat Miners Like Banks As financial news outlet Business Telegraph reported, on September 3, an expert witness went before lawmakers to argue miners on blockchains such as Bitcoin’s should face full banking-style regulation.
2019-9-4 16:00 | |
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Argo Blockchain, a company focused on Bitcoin mining, has recently increased its hashrate. The company has been reported to have expanded its mining capabilities a lot lately. The reason for that is that the company got a lot of money because the price of its stocks went up. According to Google Finance, the stocks of […]
2019-8-28 04:55 | |
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Litecoin (LTC) miners are facing problems recently. Many of them have decided to unplug their mining devices after the most recent halving happened. Data from the LTC network shows that the difficulty is going down because of that.
2019-8-24 23:37 | |
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Most of the assets enjoyed a lucrative period from April to June but the controversial Bitcoin SV faced a few “hiccups” along the way. Bitcoin SV went through a tumultuous journey this year, with the coin being delisted by major exchanges like Binance and Kraken, which led to its drop in rankings as well.
2019-8-19 15:59 | |
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The Texas Securities Commissioner has ordered AWS Mining, a mining firm operating in the state, to repay their investors any money they had put into mining contracts. In Texas, the state securities regulators went on a statewide crackdown of illegitimate cryptocurrency businesses that were soliciting investors from Texas.
2019-8-4 13:19 | |
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There are some people who get so hung up on the word ‘Can’ that they never consider the word ‘Should’. One of them has converted an Apollo space mission guidance computer into a Bitcoin mining rig.
2019-7-10 04:00 | |
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On Tuesday, the Iranian energy grid corporation Tavanir warned illegal bitcoin mining operations that they would be cut off from their supply. Following the announcement, pictures of a mining facility set up in a mosque went viral on social media.
2019-6-27 20:45 | |
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On May 9, 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), issued new “interpretive guidance” about how its regulations apply to businesses that conduct money transmissions in virtual currencies.
2019-5-11 21:34 | |
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By CCN. com: A report published in local Brazilian news outlet Zero Hora has revealed that Brazilian police have made an arrest in connection with a suspected crypto money laundering scheme. An accidental discovery The report, which was published on April 23, claims that the State Department of Drug Trafficking (Denarc) in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul came upon a house where cryptocurrencies were being mined as they were on the trail of a suspected drug trafficker.
2019-4-28 14:36 | |
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Social media giant Facebook and its Instagram and Whatsapp platforms went down for a couple of hours highlighting the stability of Bitcoin and its decentralized architecture. Facebook Goes Down Social media website Facebook went down for a few hours on April 13th according to a monitoring resource downdetector.
2019-4-16 04:00 | |
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The problem of improving the energy efficiency of mining has already matured in 2015, becoming by 2019 an acute problem of the industry, which cast doubt on any prospects for further development. The share of mining cryptocurrency in global power consumption by 2019 represents a percentage of global power consumption.
2019-4-14 21:59 | |
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As the crypto winter continues there is no higher-profile casualty than Chinese mining company Bitmain. Despite generating record profits in 2017 and early 2018, the company has been forced to downsize, closing offices and letting 50% of its workforce go.
2019-3-15 22:00 | |
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Epic Games is being torn a new one by gamers again. This time, it’s been accused of mining users’ Steam data without their permission. As you’d expect, Epic’s critics are taking it as fresh grist in the ongoing controversy over Epic’s storefront — which might turn off developers who want to bring their games there in future.
2019-3-15 21:34 | |
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With shrinking profit margins and the closure of Coinhive, cryptojacking looks like it’s coming to an end. The in-browser Monero mining program was conceived as a means of legitimately monetizing web pages.
2019-3-14 22:15 | |
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Ebang, one of China’s top manufacturers of bitcoin miners, is planning to produce 400,000 mining machines in 2019. On February 22, 2019, Ebang reportedly announced this plan to expand dramatically throughout the fiscal year.
2019-2-26 22:09 | |
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Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people.
2019-2-18 18:30 | |
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Another bitcoin miner this week shut down its operations, though the news didn’t come as much of a shock. The latest closure, of U. S. -based Giga Watt which went bankrupt last year, follows a trend among large mining operations that stretches back years.
2019-1-18 09:35 | |
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October 31, 2008, and January 3, 2009. The two dates have cemented themselves with Promethean significance into Bitcoin’s lore. On the October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, a constitution of sorts for his revolutionary monetary system and its intrinsic currency.
2019-1-3 07:14 | |
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Bitmain And Huobi To Lay Off Staff Amid Crypto Bear Market Two crypto giants, the mining manufacturer Bitmain and the crypto exchange Huobi, were recently reported to lay off some of their staff amid the price drops that the market has faced in 2018, in which the price of Bitcoin went from almost $20,000 USD […]
2018-12-26 21:41 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC), Cryptocurrency–As prices for Bitcoin continue to slip to their lowest point in over a year, with all eyes on BTC hitting $3,000, a recent inquiry into the dipping hash rate has led some to question the health of the crypto mining industry.
2018-11-27 04:29 | |
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Colorado Securities Commissioner Gerald Rome has issued a new batch of cease-and-desist orders against unregistered Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) operating in the state, taking the total number of signed orders against ICOs in Colorado to 18.
2018-11-22 19:23 | |
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Charles Hoskinson is best known today as a co-founder of both Ethereum and IOHK, where he leads the research, design and development of Cardano. But before these projects, there was Bitcoin.
2018-11-20 23:08 | |
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Bitcoin Cash went through its hard fork on Thursday, November 15 at 17:52 UTC after the mining of block number 556,767. Almost two days later, the two factions that remain are Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV.
2018-11-18 07:39 | |
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Bitmain co-founder Jihan Wu no longer has influence over the company’s decision-making processes after an executive board reshuffle, a lawyer told local media November 12. Wu Now ‘Supervisor’ As Sanyan Blockchain reports, the mining giant altered the make-up of its board last week.
2018-11-13 14:00 | |
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Innosilicon's mining equipment no longer works on Sia following a planned algorithm change. But not everyone went along with the fork.
2018-11-2 21:30 | |
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With Ethereum’s launch in 2015 came a flurry of excitement over the future potential of smart contracts. Utilizing a more flexible scripting language than Bitcoin, the platform’s decentralized applications (DApps) were touted by proponents as unlocking a plethora of formerly untapped use cases for the blockchain.
2018-10-30 21:45 | |
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As if it hadn’t already given cryptocurrency enthusiasts enough reasons to hate it, Google has now taken a dig at the usefulness of cryptocurrencies. In a recent advertisement for its call screening service, the search engine giant mocked cryptocurrency’s high electricity consumption – and then went on to say that “it is not real money.
2018-10-10 16:19 | |
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GMO Internet Group is working to launch a stablecoin by 2019. In an announcement released on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, the Japanese IT conglomerate said it is putting all gears in place to begin building its stablecoin, called the GMO Japanese Yen (GJY).
2018-10-10 02:10 | |
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Майнера из Китая уличили в краже электричества, стоимостью в $15 000. Суд приговорил его к тюремному заключению на 3,5 года. Chinese guy sentenced to 3. 5 yrs in prison and pay ~$14. 5K in fines for stealing ~$15K worth of electricity to mine 3.
2018-10-8 18:03 | |
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Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
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This past week saw a flurry of reports and analyses released by various agencies and companies, speculating on the roles — past and present — of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.
2018-9-29 20:00 | |
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Bitmain, the biggest company in bitcoin mining, has filed for its IPO in Hong Kong. As part of the approval process, the company submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong stock exchange at the end of August 2018.
2018-9-28 23:08 | |
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The founder of cryptocurrency exchange OKEx was detained for questioning on September 10, 2018, by Shanghai police to investigate a case of suspected digital currency fraud related to WFee coin.
2018-9-12 23:42 | |
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Key takeaway Dogizen is the first Telegram ICO, raising nearly $4m in its presale so far. The project is a direct competition to Catizen, the popular cat-themed game on Telegram. What is Dogizen? Dogizen is an exciting project that prides itself as the first Telegram ICO.
Coinbase expands its advisory council with Trumps 2024 strategist and former NY Fed president, strengthening its regulatory strategy. The post Coinbase taps Trump’s 2024 strategist and former NY Fed president for its advisory council appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Trump Media launches Truth.Fi, planning a $250M investment in fintech, ETFs, and Bitcoin as it expands into financial services. The post Trump Media launches new fintech platform Truth.Fi, allocating $250M to Bitcoin and ETFs appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
a16z refocuses on US crypto opportunities post-Trump's re-election, scaling back UK operations amid pro-crypto executive orders. The post a16z cuts UK crypto plans as it shifts focus to Trump-era US opportunities appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
MEXC, the world’s leading cryptocurrency trading platform, announced the launch of the Jambo (J), an innovative on-chain mobile network project. The launch will be accompanied by Airdrop+ rewards of 28,000 J, 5,000 MX and 50,000 USDT.
Coinbase reintroduces Bitcoin-backed loans via Morpho integration, allowing USDC borrowing without selling Bitcoin. The post Coinbase brings back Bitcoin-backed loans with Morpho’s DeFi integration appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
eToro's IPO could enhance its market presence and investor reach, potentially influencing the broader fintech and crypto sectors' growth. The post eToro confidentially files for US IPO with Goldman Sachs’ support appeared first on Crypto Briefing.