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Coinbase's Battle Over Tornado Cash, White House Not Happy With Bitcoin Mining + More News
8.9.2022
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Coinbase's Battle Over Tornado Cash, White House Not Happy With Bitcoin Mining + More News
8.9.2022
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Read More: Coinbase's Battle Over Tornado Cash, White House Not Happy With Bitcoin Mining + More News
Plant a Tree In-Game, You Plant It IRL: New Metaverse, NFT Game Where Real-World Actions Mirror Digital Ones Launches in 2023
25.8.2022
Blockchain company Alóki has bought 750 acres of land in Costa Rica and is building a new play-to-own metaverse which is nearing its launch.
As awareness of the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions is rising across the world, Alóki is developing a project to allow users to contribute...
LATAM’s New Crypto Mining ‘Promised Land’: Pluses & Minuses for Paraguay
23.8.2022
Paraguay has become a “new Latin American Mecca for cryptocurrency mining,” a new report has claimed – but not everyone seems to be happy about the fact that more miners than ever are choosing to set up shop in the nation....
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Iran Goes Crypto, Ethereum Classic Camp Is Against Ethereum PoW Fork + More News
9.8.2022
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The Right Side of Crypto Regulation: Institutions Need to Avoid Thucydides’ Trap
31.7.2022
Anton Chashchin is a Managing Partner at the digital assets platform Bitfrost.io. __________
The days when cryptocurrencies were reserved for the underground are fast becoming history. But the power dynamics in finance are all too familiar....
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Global Economic Growth Slows Amid Gloomy and More Uncertain Outlook
28.7.2022
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is the Economic Counsellor and the Director of Research of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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The world’s three largest economies are stalling, with important consequences for the global outlook. Inflation is a major concern....
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New York State To Ban Carbon-Powered Bitcoin, Altcoin Mining, While Kenya Fosters Green BTC
3.6.2022
As regulators across the world work to adopt varying stances on crypto mining, the US state of New York and the East African country of Kenya offer two examples of how legislators can thwart or foster crypto innovation through their initiatives....
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Crypto’s Need for Sustainability Standard-Setting Starts Here
29.5.2022
Patricia Trompeter, CEO of Sphere 3D, a Nasdaq-listed crypto mining company.____Cryptocurrencies have gained strong momentum over the last couple of years, drawing widespread attention from both proponents and skeptics. While investors have lauded digital currencies for their high yields...
Welcome To Logjam, A Sexy Lumberjack Simulator
18.5.2022
Indie developer Robert Yang, creator of games like Hard Lads and Rinse & Repeat, has a new release out today called Logjam. It’s about a lumberjack who is just trying to make it through a very hot, sweaty day.Read more
232 Wikipedia Users Force the Online Encyclopedia to Ditch Bitcoin, Ethereum, and BCH Donation Options
2.5.2022
The Wikimedia Foundation, the body that operates the user-created web-based encyclopedia Wikipedia, has announced that it will no longer accept crypto donations. ...
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Bitcoin Mining Efficiency Up 63% in Year, 'Sustainable Electricity Mix' Jumped 59% - Bitcoin Mining Council
26.4.2022
Bitcoin (BTC) mining is becoming more efficient while firms are increasingly using green energy for their mining operations, according to a recent survey by the Bitcoin Mining Council (BMC), a voluntary global forum of Bitcoin mining companies....
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Ripple’s Exec Campaign Has ‘Zero Chance’ of Forcing Bitcoin to Proof-of-Stake, But Brace for More Attacks
24.4.2022
It has almost become a populist truism that Bitcoin (BTC) is bad for the environment. By using proof-of-work (PoW) as its consensus mechanism, its entire network consumes a prodigious amount of energy, which at the moment is reportedly higher than the annual energy consumption in some...
‘PoS Fanatics Attacking PoW are Actual Supervillains’, Kraken’s Powell Says as US Politicians Charge
22.4.2022
A letter by a group of Democratic members of the US Congress attacking proof-of-work (PoW) mining and praising proof-of-stake (PoS) is causing an uproar in the Bitcoin (BTC) community, with crypto exchange Kraken CEO Jesse Powell claiming that “PoS fanatics attacking PoW are actual...
Robinhood Domesticates Shiba Inu, Changes for Celsius Users in US + More News
12.4.2022
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Senator Rages Over Bitcoin's Less Than 0.08% Carbon Footprint
10.2.2022
The environmental impact of Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto mining took center stage during a hearing on digital assets in the US Senate’s Committee on Agriculture on Thursday, as some senators voiced concerns over the “astonishing” energy usage associated with mining. As reported, the Bitcoin mining...
Polish Miner Commercializes Tech Using Solar Panels To Mine Bitcoin, Heat Houses
9.2.2022
Determined to reduce the carbon footprint of his Bitcoin (BTC) mining operations and cut his electricity bill, Polish miner Paweł Wojciechowski started using photovoltaic (PV) modules to mine the crypto, allocating the excess heat to warm the water in his household. Amid surging demand for...
Manchester United & Tezos, US Job Growth, Marathon Mined 816% More Bitcoin + More News
4.2.2022
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news._____...
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Bitcoin & Crypto Miners Must Take Note as Davos Chiefs Say ‘Nobody Can Hide’ from ESG Standards
20.1.2022
Senior figures at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos have agreed that Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards are coming – and will soon apply to all industries. And furthermore, they suggested, even those who do not want a part of the ESG drive will eventually be left with...
Bitcoin Mining Energy Use ‘Inconsequential,’ ‘Rapidly Becoming More Efficient’ - Saylor
19.1.2022
The total use of energy for Bitcoin (BTC) mining is “inconsequential,” and it is “rapidly becoming more efficient,” MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor said, as the mining industry is preparing for a hearing in the US House of Representatives this week.
Saylor was speaking during a quarterly...