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Iran Government Blames Bitcoin Miners For Power Outages, Bans Crypto Mining For 4 Months

Bitcoin miners have been on the hot seat this year. The market recently reacted to the Chinese government cracking down on mining activities with investors rolling out cash from the Bitcoin market. The unrest seems to be far from over as the Iranian government has also clamped down on cryptocurrency activities in the country. According […] дальше »

2021-5-27 20:46


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Vitalik Buterin Criticizes Elon Musk’s Idealistic Take on Cryptocurrency, Details Limits on Blockchain Scalability

Vitalik Buterin, one of the most renowned Ethereum founders, has rebuffed Elon Musk’s take on fixing cryptocurrencies in a new paper where he details the limits of blockchain scalability. Buterin touches on three subjects: storage, bandwidth, and computing power, commenting on their limits with today’s tech. дальше »

2021-5-25 23:30


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Is Ripple Behind Most of the Bitcoin Energy Usage FUD? CoinShares’ Meltem Demirors Thinks So

The Bitcoin market hasn’t been a pretty sight of late. The top cryptocurrency seems to be struggling to beat back the bears as price take a hit after another. Notably, this crisis started when Tesla’s Elon Musk launched a scathing attack on BTC on account of the network’s massive power consumption. Elon’s company went on […] дальше »

2021-5-24 11:17


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Iran to Shut Down Licensed Crypto Miners in Peak Hours of Power Consumption

Citing a need to maintain a stable electricity supply for other users, Iran will be pulling the plug on cryptocurrency mining farms whenever power consumption peaks. The measure intended to deal with shortages will target licensed facilities despite the government admitting that illegal crypto miners burn much more energy. Licensed Crypto Miners Use 300 MW, […] дальше »

2021-5-23 07:00


How Another Chinese Power Outage May Have Led to Bitcoin’s Flash Crash This Week

Earlier in April, an accident at a Chinese coal mine in Xinjiang sent Bitcoin network’s hash rate plummeting 30% in a span of a day, which crippled the major cryptocurrency’s rally.  Now, Bitcoin’s hash rate is suffering a similar loss as miners based in Sichuan, China face limitations on power usage.  The State Grid in […] дальше »

2021-5-22 05:02


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Ukraine to channel excessive nuclear power towards Crypto Mining

Ukraine may have found a fitting practice to help it reduce its excessive nuclear power that has been going to waste for years. The idea of building a digital power plant with a capacity for cryptocurrency mining was discussed by the country’s Deputy Minister of Energy for Digital Development Yevhen Vladimirov, who met up with other […] дальше »

2021-2-8 00:24


Survival of the fittest: A look at how hash rate tokens compete with existing mining products and services

If you are a cryptocurrency and blockchain industry professional, the most commonly heard term would be computing power or hash rate, which is a quantitative measure of the computing speed of a mininThe post Survival of the fittest: A look at how hash rate tokens compete with existing mining products and services appeared first on AMBCrypto. дальше »

2021-1-25 16:00


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Economic Impacts of Federal Reserve Stimulus Packages Called out on Crypto Twitter

The implications of the $3 trillion stimulus package that passed the House of Representatives on Friday were critiqued heavily on Crypto Twitter this weekend. One of the most popular cryptocurrency analysts on TradingView and Twitter, @MagicPoopCannon, noted that such stimulus measures reduce purchasing power. дальше »

2020-5-17 11:26


$75 million liquidated: Bitcoin’s power move leaves trail of destruction for bears

Bitcoin saw an explosive upside movement earlier today that caught the cryptocurrency’s bears off-guard, leading to over $75 million in positions to be liquidated. Open interest (OI) on popular crypto trading platform BitMEX has also plunged in the time following this movement, with the freshly liquidated positions apparently leading many traders to move to the […] The post $75 million liquidated: Bitcoin’s power move leaves trail of destruction for bears appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »

2020-4-25 08:00


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Record Breaking Interest – Observing the Predictive Power of Bitcoin Futures Over BTC Spot Prices

Bitcoin futures providers have been seeing a lot of action during the last two weeks as cryptocurrency markets have been extremely volatile. Data shows there’s been significant open interest on both retail and institutional bitcoin derivatives exchanges and Skew research noted bitcoin options open interest was just shy of $1 billion on Monday. дальше »

2020-2-29 03:20


Ripple CEO blasts concentration of Bitcoin miners in China, but his critique misses the mark

It’s no secret that the majority of Bitcoin’s miners are located in China, with the geographical centralization of this mining power being a go-to critique for the cryptocurrency’s critics. This sentiment was recently echoed by Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, who explained in a recent interview with CNN’s Julia Chatterley that the heavy concentration of miners […] The post Ripple CEO blasts concentration of Bitcoin miners in China, but his critique misses the mark appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »

2020-2-18 08:07


Trump’s Administration Budget Proposal Could Give US Treasury More Power Over Crypto

In the 2021 financial year budget proposed by the Trump Administration which was released early this week, it’s clear of their intention in regards to crypto regulations. They are looking to expand the treasury’s role in cryptocurrency oversights by bringing back the United States Secret Service, now under the DHS, back to its jurisdiction. The […] дальше »

2020-2-11 18:57


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Trump Views Crypto a Threat, Proposes Countermeasures in New Budget

The White House released the Budget of the U. S. Government on Monday, outlining some proposals to increase cryptocurrency oversight which President Donald Trump views as priorities. The budget proposes giving the Treasury more power over crypto and requests funding for FinCEN to expand its efforts to combat threats including from cryptocurrency. дальше »

2020-2-12 18:35