2023-6-13 11:39 |
Bitcoin pitch invasion! A new Cointelegraph video examines a local soccer club’s impact on its town and national Bitcoin adoption. origin »
2023-6-13 11:39 |
Bitcoin pitch invasion! A new Cointelegraph video examines a local soccer club’s impact on its town and national Bitcoin adoption. origin »
Citing data that demonstrates that over 86% of all Bitcoin SV volume originated from just 100 transactions, analyst Kevin Rooke told Twitter that Craig Wright's pet crypto project is a “total ghost town.
2019-6-25 01:00 | |
Grant County, a town located in the US state of Washington, currently hosts a number of cryptocurrency mining operators. These operators migrated to the area because of cheaper electricity costs from the hydroelectric plant in the local region.
2018-9-6 16:04 | |
Ocean Falls in British Columbia is nothing short of a ghost town now. The little village is witnessing its past crumble down as old buildings are giving up to the elements. For decades, there has not been a ray of real hope in this place, and the population has declined from 5,000 to below 100.
2018-9-6 13:59 | |
With a population of fewer than 100 people, the small Canadian mill town of Ocean Falls sits dormant in British Colombia. Some think the Bitcoin mining boom could help reverse their economic fortunes.
2018-9-5 10:00 | |
The abandoned towns of rural Canada are continuing to prove an attractive place to set up new Bitcoin mining operations. The cold climate and abundant spare energy resources make them an ideal location for the power-intensive industry.
2018-9-5 04:00 | |
The crypto industry has scored another first, as a junior U. S. Senator from Montana, Steve Daines, has lobbied against the planned closure of a coal-fired power plant in Rosebud County, arguing that its closure could harm the growing cryptocurrency mining industry in the state.
2018-8-28 19:11 | |
In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief we cover stories about Binance exchange launching an incubator program meant to help the development of crypto startups and Coinbase adding educational information on the top fifty cryptocurrencies for its users.
2018-8-28 15:15 | |
Located between the mountains and the sea not far from Rio de Janeiro, Paraty is renowned among travelers to Brazil for its scenic views. It features waterfalls, tropical beaches, an historic Portuguese colonial town, and now a Bitcoin-themed hostel.
2018-8-27 00:15 | |
Being fooled into investing in a scam ICO, or in a broken cryptocurrency is heartbreaking, but being fooled into swapping your Bitcoin millions for fake banknotes takes it to a new level. According to new reports, one South Korean businessman has fallen victim of just that, a scam that involved his millions being swapped for €2 million worth of fake banknotes.
2018-8-20 16:00 | |
Another Bitcoin millionaire has been caught in an elaborate cryptocurrency plot. A South Korean businessman has exchanged $2. 3M worth of Bitcoin for cash – only to find the banknotes were cheap, poorly printed fakes.
2018-8-20 13:08 | |
Mining Bitcoin is a process that is loud, hot, expensive and also very noisy. As a result, mining efforts on a large scale tend to be focused out of town, in rural settings in factories that have an exclusive energy supply, in areas that are naturally very cold.
2018-8-17 15:00 | |
The crypto market’s recent, and much-publicized, plunge had drawn plenty of theories and speculation regarding where prices are heading to next. Investor panic ensued, but it looks like some basic fundamentals are driving momentum in this young yet extremely volatile market.
2018-8-16 15:04 | |
Australia Could Have The First Solar-Powered Bitcoin Mining Farm In A Coal Town A data center operator from Australia and its crypto subsidiary are developing a first, a Bitcoin mining farm that uses solar power to work, making it one of the most interesting ways to use renewable energy for Bitcoin mining. DC Two, a […]
2018-8-10 23:57 | |
Maerki Baumann — a private bank based in Zurich, Switzerland — has announced it will manage its clients’ cryptocurrency assets. This makes it the second Swiss bank to make such an announcement following Hypothekarbank Lenzburg (Hypi), which stated in June that it would open business accounts for cryptocurrency companies.
2018-8-7 23:23 | |
A sleepy Texas town is set to reinvigorate the local economy thanks to a multimillion-dollar project to build a cryptocurrency mining and data center in place of a recently closed coal fire power plant.
2018-8-7 17:00 | |
When the SEC announced its rejection of the Winklevosses’ latest bitcoin ETF filing, the industry found itself reckoning with a problem on repeat: striving toward the goal of approval, another Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) proposal faced the SEC’s death knell.
2018-8-4 22:49 | |
Could Bitcoin reach the heights that its proponents have always claimed? The question about the world’s premier cryptocurrency reaching its $20,000 highs of last December is making a comeback with the potential Bitcoin ETF coming to town.
2018-8-3 16:15 | |
Now the small town of Rockdale, about an hour northeast of Austin, is hoping the days of “used to” are used up. A Chinese company plans to open a Bitcoin mining operation in part of the old Alcoa plant just outside of town, bringing with it the prospect of 300-500 jobs, according to local media reports.
2018-7-31 20:36 | |
According to the Texas Standard, Rockdale, a town in central Texas, is looking to Bitcoin mining to ease an economic slump caused by the closure of the coal-fired power plant and adjacent mine earlier this year.
2018-7-27 17:25 | |
Rockdale, a town in central Texas, has made headlines due to plans of converting their town from mining coal, into mining bitcoin according to local reports on July 20, 2018. Bitmain Invades, Again In a post-industrial society, many areas that relied on the extraction of raw resources such as coal are beginning to face an economic struggle.
2018-7-27 01:00 | |
According to the Texas Standard, Rockdale, a town in central Texas, is looking to Bitcoin mining to ease an economic slump caused by the closure of the coal-fired power plant and adjacent mine earlier this year.
2018-7-26 20:05 | |
New, fresh money is coming into bitcoin and that has given the market a nice pump back into the USD 7400 price level. This drove Bitcoin prices to rise around 8%, from USD 6700 to USD 7300. What happened a few days ago was clearly a massive price wall pushing prices forward while eating away
2018-7-22 19:04 | |
Bitcoin has been the talk of the town this week, as observers discuss if $7,000 is its bottom.
2018-7-20 08:52 | |
The number one cryptocurrency has seen its price dramatically increase in the last few hours. Bitcoin has absolutely smashed the $6,800 resistance level many felt crucial for bullish sentiment to return to the market.
2018-7-18 22:00 | |
No Activity And Empty Blocks: Bitcoin Cash in Development in a Ghost Town, Revealed by Github Data Data harvested from Github repositories for both Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin, has caused the latest in a series of harsh contrasts between the surface and deep network performance on social media in recent weeks. Bitcoin’s statistics were uploaded on […]
2018-7-17 19:18 | |
There are over 600 million Africans living without electricity despite an abundance of sunshine and hundreds of thousands of solar projects on the drawing board.
2018-7-17 17:41 | |
Bitcoin Cash continues to receive criticism of its network setup as bitPico’s “stress test” unearths what the group describes as possible “fake decentralization. ” Empty Blocks, No Activity Data harvested from GitHub repositories for both Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has caused the latest in a series of stark contrasts of network performance to surface on social media in recent weeks.
2018-7-17 03:00 | |
The Bitcoin movement has brought with it a tidal wave of activity in cryptocurrency investments and trading. As a result, crypto market capitalization soared to an all-time high of around $820 billion in early January of 2018.
2018-7-13 17:51 | |
In today’s segment of CNBC ‘Fast Money’, the hosts took a look at the current state of Bitcoin, pointing out signals and what they mean for the market going forward. Bitcoin Sees Interest Decline, Is That A Problem? The cryptocurrency market saw an astonishing 2017, with the industry quickly becoming the talk of the town […] The post CNBC ‘Fast Money’ Sees Bitcoin Bulls And Bears All In One Segment appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-7-12 06:16 | |
A manhunt is currently underway for a businessman that was kidnapped near his offices in Cape Town. According to some sources, a ransom of 50 Bitcoin has been demanded for the man’s return.
2018-7-12 23:05 | |
Over the past few weeks, zero confirmation transactions have become the talk of the town in the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community. Several BCH merchants have started accepting zero confirmations lately to help speed up transactions.
2018-7-3 14:44 | |
Bitcoin mining farms have similar power needs, making Colorado Springs a great place to set up shop. Much of the town’s economy is based in the high-tech sector, with companies like Verizon and Hewlett-Packard setting up offices.
2018-6-23 09:30 | |
California-based 3G Venture II has paid $13 million for a significant portion of an old Intel chip plant in Colorado Springs, which it intends of turn into a new bitcoin mining operation. Mining Farms Opening Around the World Miners have been flocking to cities that offer cheap electricity to reduce costs and increase profits, and it looks like Colorado Springs may join the list.
2018-6-23 07:00 | |
The Digital Future Council made its public debut on June 18, 2018, at the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. With founding members from such organizations as IBM, Vice, CNN, Lego and Warner Bros.
2018-6-20 21:56 | |
And while it’s not the original chain, Ver very often renames bitcoin, “bitcoin core” (after the name of the team behind bitcoin’s main software implementation), even going so far as to label bitcoin cash, “bitcoin” and bitcoin, “bitcoin core” on his website bitcoin.
2018-6-14 10:42 | |
Troll cryptocurrency Bitcoin Core is the next step of bitcoin's ongoing naming wars.
2018-6-14 06:50 | |
Troll cryptocurrency Bitcoin Core is the next step of bitcoin's ongoing naming wars.
2018-6-14 06:50 | |
Coinmint, a cloud mining service provider, has confirmed it will go ahead with its proposed plan to open a cryptocurrency mining plant in an abandoned smelter previously used by Alcoa, in Massena, New York.
2018-6-11 01:16 | |