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Crypto-Drunk Swiss Investment Firm Launches Bitcoin Mining Fund

By CCN. com: Ordinarily, institutional investors in the crypto space are usually portrayed as primarily interested in investing only in digital assets. Now, a partnership between blockchain startup Bitfury Group and Swiss investment firm Final Frontier aims to offer institutional and professional investors a way to reap from Bitcoin’s infrastructure too. дальше »

2019-4-24 14:04


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Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Is Raising a $250 Million Credit Fund for Crypto Firms

Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz’s crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital is raising at least $250 million to offer loans in USD to crypto firms looking for cash, reported Business Insider on Jan. 25. According to people familiar with the matter, borrowers will get loans by using cryptocurrencies, buildings, and even cryptocurrency mining hardware as collateral. дальше »

2019-1-25 16:49


Investor: Bitmain Firing 80% Workforce is Bad for Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin

According to several reports, crypto mining giant Bitmain is running out of funds. And it could be bad for Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. $315. 5 million worth of Crypto-Assets Kyle Samani, the co-founder of Multicoin Capital, a crypto fund, warned in a Tweet that Bitmain would liquidate its crypto-assets to accumulate fiat-funds for its business operations. дальше »

2018-12-26 17:27


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BitFury $80M Funding Round Attracts Galaxy Digital’s Novogratz

Bitcoin mining infrastructure company BitFury Group has closed a private funding round worth $80 million from both global and cryptocurrency-focused investors. Cash To Fund ‘Hardware And Software’ Objectives In a press release November 6, BitFury, which is also rumored to be planning an IPO, revealed Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital to be among the participants in the round, which was led by European venture capital firm Korelya Capital. дальше »

2018-11-7 11:00


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Bitmain IPO: Softbank and Tencent Reportedly ‘Not Involved’

Two major corporations have publicly denied involvement with the prospective initial public offering (IPO) of cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain. Source: Tencent ‘Did Not Take Part’ In a fresh round of controversy over the plans, Chinese multinational Tencent and SoftBank, the largest investor in Uber, both rejected press claims they were participating. дальше »

2018-8-21 17:30


Japan’s Forside Crypto Mining Expands, Fasteps Exchange Launch & Line Token Fund News

Japanese Companies Outline Cryptocurrency Plans Three public firms based in Japan have declared their plans regarding the trading of digital currencies. Notably, each of the three institutions (Forside, Farsteps and Line Corp) is either adding a new service to its portfolio or expanding its area of operation. The following is a detailed overview of the […] дальше »

2018-8-20 19:41


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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


China Floods Wipe Out Crypto Mining Farms, Bitcoin Hashrate Drops

The cumulative hashing power dedicated toward Bitcoin took a hit this week after extensive flooding of mining centers in Sichuan, China. Eric Meltzer, a partner at China-based blockchain focused fund INB, published a tweet on June 29, 2018, depicting mining hardware destroyed by flooding within the Sichuan region: Rumors that a huge flood in Sichuan took […] The post China Floods Wipe Out Crypto Mining Farms, Bitcoin Hashrate Drops appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »

2018-7-2 17:00


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Bitcoin Miner “Stole” 150 MW of Electricity according to Chinese Police

A Chinese man has found himself in police custody after attempting to steal electricity to fund his unprofitable Bitcoin mining operation, local media outlet Xinhua reports June 22. The suspect, known only by his surname Ma, allegedly mined Bitcoin and Ethereum on two hundred computers in the country’s Anhui province, all of which have been дальше »

2018-6-22 19:06