2023-9-16 22:00 |
Marcel Pechman explains the myth of excess cash in U.S. households and the lack of sufficient savings, and how a U.S. government shutdown could impact Bitcoin. origin »
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Marathon Digital Holdings reported a 9% drop in Bitcoin (BTC) production in August 2023, with the company mainly attributing the decrease to increased shutdown activity in Texas due to record-high temperatures.
2023-9-6 00:30 | |
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The company is encouraging users to withdraw their funds and to save transaction statements before the app’s closure.
2023-5-25 20:36 | |
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Coinbase Borrow — which allows users to borrow fiat against their Bitcoin (BTC) holdings — will be scrapped from May 10, Coinbase announced in a notice sent to users and shared on Twitter. The emailed notice did not provide any reason for the shutdown of the feature.
2023-5-4 10:05 | |
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Key Takeaways Bitcoin has surged beyond $26,000 as interest rate expectations flip Inflation reading provides further impetus as investors dream of return to lower interest environment and surging crypto prices There are reasons to be hesitant here, however, writes our Analyst Dan Ashmore Shutdown of three crypto banks will hurt industry, while there has been […] The post Why is Bitcoin going up? $26K breached but there is reason for suspicion appeared first on CoinJournal.
2023-3-15 17:24 | |
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Bitcoin, ether and other major cryptocurrencies turned red as the crypto-focused lender’s crisis continued to unfold.
2023-3-10 23:31 | |
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After a decade of providing bitcoin trading and wallet services, LocalBitcoins has announced its shutdown.
2023-2-10 19:05 | |
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Cryptocurrency investors have been withdrawing Bitcoin [BTC] from cryptocurrency exchanges at the most aggressive rate in history. Here, the total exchange outflows in June peaked at 151,000 BTC, wortThe post Bitcoin [BTC]'s hashrate and what its fall means for miners and their shutdown price appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-7-7 16:30 | |
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As Bitcoin fell as low as $22,600, some mining equipment manufactured in 2019 is no longer profitable, while the rest is barely producing positive returns. The post Bitcoin mining equipment older than 2019 reaches shutdown price appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-6-14 02:30 | |
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New generation Bitcoin mining machines would remain profitable even if the BTC price crashes by another 50%.
2022-6-13 14:26 | |
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The Bitfinex hack had been one of the most popular hacks when it occurred. At that point, bitcoin was still in its very early stages and was still reeling from the Mt Gox shutdown even years later.
2022-2-2 20:00 | |
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Key Takeaways Iran places a three-month ban on Bitcoin mining. The move will see up to 206 megawatts of electricity freed up to meet household energy needs. Bitcoin mining continues to face energy issues globally.
2022-1-6 00:38 | |
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Iran has yet again issued an order to shutdown the authorized cryptocurrency mining centers to ease the strain on the country’s power plants and avoid a blackout, said Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, director of the state-run Iran Grid Management Co.
2021-12-29 19:08 | |
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Key takeaways Canadian psychologist reveals he bought some more Bitcoin to hedge against inflation. Inflation has become a global concern since the economic shutdown predicated by the pandemic. Bitcoin continues to advance in adoption as an inflation hedge.
2021-11-17 13:54 | |
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The coronavirus pandemic and resultant economic shutdown have led to worries of inflation spurring up around the world. However, it has also led to a rise in the adoption and acceptance of Bitcoin.
2021-11-2 23:30 | |
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According to reports, Sichuan’s Ya’an municipal government has asked Bitcoin miners to shutdown operations in the city. None of the three local sources available at the moment mention how long the crypto mines will remain closed.
2021-6-19 23:01 | |
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Officials in Sichuan, a major bitcoin mining hub in China, have reportedly issued a shutdown order for bitcoin mining operations there.
2021-6-18 18:07 | |
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Authorities in China have ordered the closure of crypto mining farms in Ya’an, a prefecture city in Sichuan that has emerged as a key crypto mining center. The order comes on the heels of Beijing’s wider clamp down on the bitcoin mining industry.
2021-6-18 16:55 | |
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All mining facilities in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Qinghai provinces have been shut down. China has long accommodated over half the world’s bitcoin miners, but now, Beijing wants them out ASAP.
2021-6-17 01:00 | |
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Zimbabwe’s Mobile Money Operators (MMO) say they will comply with the latest directive by the central bank to shutdown mobile money agents. In addition, the MMOs will also limit mobile money transactions to $50 (Zwl $5,000) per day while users are now restricted to one mobile money account per person.
2020-8-28 13:00 | |
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Thesis has put a pause on deposits into tBTC, its new platform meant to get bitcoin into Ethereum's decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.
2020-5-19 20:05 | |
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After almost two months of a complete economic shutdown, the United States of America is finally assessing certain provisional steps to reopen financial activity. Many analysts in the market believThe post Bitcoin's 'macroeconomic backdrop' is favorable now, but may 'flip' tomorrow appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-5-7 22:30 | |
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The Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets continue to shed billions as speculators in markets around the world exit en masse to cash. Some industry personalities expect markets to bounce hard as confusion calms.
2020-3-17 02:15 | |
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Bottle Pay, a social media tipping site based on Bitcoin, announced the company's shutdown on December 13 due to new EU guidelines. Launched in June 2019, the company shut down barely three months aftThe post Bitcoin app Bottle Pay halts ops over EU money laundering laws appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-12-14 11:30 | |
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In June this year Iran announced its national information network was 80% complete. Five months later, a total blackout was implemented. “NetBlocks says it took Iranian authorities about 24 hours.
2019-11-25 22:03 | |
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Following a decision to inflate fuel prices by 50 percent in Iran, civil unrest has broken out with a branch of the country’s central bank being set ablaze. Now, the government is striking back and could even be doing enough to cripple Bitcoin access.
2019-11-19 18:55 | |
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The government in Iran recently decided to raise the price of gas by 50% as they ration gas, and it hasn’t sat well with the locals. The changes seem to be connected to the limitations by US sanctions on Petro Dollars, which meant that the country had to reduce their subsidies. The new was given […]
2019-11-18 16:32 | |
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While traders and analysts are practicing in forecasts about bitcoin for a million dollars, there is a quiet shutdown on the market – a trader with years of experience in cryptocurrencies believes.
2019-11-14 21:00 | |
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CoinExchange is the latest crypto trading platform to announce that it is exiting the business, via a statement on its website. Unlike other cases, the crypto exchange hierarchy says the market is no longer favorable to continue operations.
2019-10-3 23:00 | |
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If the bitcoin price drops further, mining may become largely unprofitable. But the Bitcoin hash rate continues to trend upward. The post F2Pool Predicts Bitcoin Mining “Shutdown Price” But Hash Rate Steady appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-10-2 18:45 | |
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Popular messaging app Kik is shutting down due to a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit regarding ICO activity for the company’s cryptocurrency, kin. Ted Livingston, Founder and CEO of Kik and Kin, denies the allegations and maintains that the SEC’s case is based on mischaracterizations, but that shutdown for Kik is necessary to focus on […] The post Messaging App Kik’s Legal Battle Shines Light on Past ICO Scams appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-9-25 16:20 | |
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More updates have emerged regarding the closure of one of Thailand’s largest Bitcoin exchanges, reports the Bangkok Post. Sources say the move was due to the platform not being keen on complying with some of the more stringent anti-money laundering (AML) provisions set forth by regulators.
2019-9-6 13:00 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) mining is a game of mathematics and rewards. After 2020 halving, Tone Vays is of the view that most miners will shutdown as rewards shrink. The post At-Least 70% Of Bitcoin (BTC) Miners May Shutdown By Q4 2020 appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-7-6 12:28 | |
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Grayscale Investments, a company that has worth $ 1. 2 billion crypto assets under management (AUM), claims that Bitcoin today surpasses traditional fiat currency and gold as for global liquidity crisis.
2019-6-22 10:32 | |
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Google, the Internet media giant, has come under a lot of flak from the crypto-community after its June 3 Google Core Update prompted the brief shutdown of a prominent crypto-news outlet. The Core Update saw the revenues and traffic of several crypto-news websites fall significantly.
2019-6-15 20:00 | |
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Users of cryptocurrency mixing service Bitcoin Blender were asked by the service’s administrators to withdraw their funds because of an imminent shutdown
2019-5-31 16:24 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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In the Bitcoin industry’s Sisyphean struggle to secure a Bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF), the boulder is rolling back down the hill. The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) posted a notice today, May 20, 2019, that it is delaying its decision on the VanEck and SolidX Bitcoin ETF proposal.
2019-5-21 00:19 | |
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Two Israeli citizens have been apprehended by law enforcement based on suspicions that they developed and ran a darknet marketplace for dealing illegal goods. The Israeli police announced via Twitter that it has collaborated with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to arrest two locals who they believe managed the dark web marketplace, which used bitcoin to facilitate trades.
2019-5-8 18:42 | |
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Two Israeli citizens have been apprehended by law enforcement based on suspicions that they developed and ran a darknet marketplace for dealing illegal goods. The Israeli police announced via Twitter that it has collaborated with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to arrest two locals who they believe managed the dark web marketplace, which used bitcoin to facilitate trades.
2019-5-8 18:42 | |
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Celebrated economist Joseph Stiglitz has recently spoken out against cryptocurrencies. The Nobel Prize winner even went as far as to say that crypto needed to be “shut down”. Evidently, Stiglitz doesn’t fully comprehend just what it would take to “shut down” most cryptocurrencies, let alone Bitcoin.
2019-5-7 00:00 | |
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Wall Street Market, the second-largest darknet market in the world in recent months, has been shut down by international law enforcement agencies, including Europol as well as U.
2019-5-4 22:03 | |
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Following the shutdown of another prominent dark web marketplace, the Wall Street Market has also shut down, with $14. 2 million in customer funds lost, as reported on April 23, 2019. The Great Shutdown One of the biggest ongoing tasks for the crypto community is the shedding of its image as being a hub for criminals.
2019-4-26 14:13 | |
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On March 30, less than 6 months since the shutdown of India’s largest bitcoin exchange Zebpay, one of the last remaining cryptocurrency exchanges in India, Coindelta, closed down its services. In an official statement, Shubham Yadav, the founder of Coindelta, wrote that there has not been enough progress in the process of overturning the decision of the Reserve Bank of India to prohibit local banks from dealing with bitcoin and crypto-related businesses.
2019-4-1 15:15 | |
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VanEck has been one of the most popularized applicants for the approval of a Bitcoin ETF. During the government shutdown, rather than becoming a lost request and being rejected automatically for the lack of public survey, the company withdrew, improving their product in a way that would be more solid for the Securities and Exchange […]
2019-3-26 07:30 | |
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Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems.
2019-3-23 17:29 | |
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Yet another journey to launch a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has begun. According to a published notice, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun reviewing a proposed rule change for a bitcoin ETF filed by NYSE Arca and Bitwise.
2019-2-18 18:46 | |
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average and broader US stock market teetered on the brink of their previous-day closes heading into the week’s final trading session. Wall Street continued to digest the fallout from Trump’s decision to sign a new spending bill and avoid a second government shutdown – while also declaring a national emergency to siphon funds from other departments to bolster his beloved border wall.
2019-2-15 17:09 | |
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Dow futures pounded more than 200 points higher and US stock market traders collectively breathed a sigh of relief ahead of Tuesday’s open after congressional negotiators announced that they had reached a tentative deal to avoid a second costly partial federal government shutdown.
2019-2-12 16:48 | |
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The concept of the Bitcoin ETF has been mulling around the minds of investors and the SEC over the last year, with multiple companies submitting their proposals to make it happen. VanEck even got close but pulled their application at the last minute as the government shutdown made them apprehensive in their former certainty of […]
2019-2-9 23:20 | |
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Reasons to consider owning bitcoin in a retirement portfolio -- from outpacing healthcare inflation to managing long-term bond risk.
Amidst ongoing issues in traditional markets, some view cryptocurrency as an investment option for retirement. We talked to experts to explore the pros and cons.
As it hosts Paris Blockchain Week, France’s capital city has seen protests following the government pushing through a bill raising the national retirement age from 62 to 64.
The crypto winter brought more devastating impacts on some crypto lending platforms. There was a lot of battling by most lending firms to evade liquidation. Their turbulent waves created distrust, loss of hope, and funds for many investors.
Crypto critic Elizabeth Warren and two colleagues write to the Fidelity CEO again to express their displeasure with crypto-exposed 401(k) offerings.
A top official with the the agency in the Labor Department that is tasked with regulating and overseeing companies in their management of employees’ retirement accounts has expressed concerns with...