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US Says North Korea Has 6,000 Hackers: Many in Belarus, China, India, Malaysia, Russia
20.8.2020
North Korea allegedly has about 6,000 hackers, many of whom operate abroad, according to a recent report published by the U.S. Army. The infamous Lazarus Group, thought to be linked to a number of cryptocurrency exchange hacks, is among them. North Korea’s Bureau 121 The U.S. Army recently...
China’s Bitcoin Mining Industry Impacted the Most This Year, Says Report
20.8.2020
The researchers and analysts from Tokeninsight published it’s “2020 Q2 Cryptocurrency Mining Industry Report” which shows the industry has grown exponentially during the last six months. The findings indicate cryptocurrency mining has expanded a great deal but China’s...
Chinese Iron Importers Favor Crypto Over US Dollars
19.8.2020
Chinese iron ore importers want to adopt the digital yuan to make transactions less dependent on American currency
Excessive Flooding in Sichuan Causes 20% Hashrate Losses for Chinese Bitcoin Miners
18.8.2020
Torrential downpours of nonstop rain have been wreaking havoc in China’s Sichuan province, which has caused some operations to shut down ASIC mining devices. Reports from the region show that certain areas have seen electrical shortages and the aftermath is causing quite a bit of stress...
Bitcoin Hashrate Falls 25% in 3 Days, Miners Unplug as Floods Hit China
18.8.2020
With heavy rainfalls and flooding hitting Southwest China’s Sichuan province, the global computing power dedicated to mining bitcoin (BTC) has now dropped by about a quarter, as some Sichuan-based miners have been forced to unplug from the network.
The bitcoin computing power, usually referred...
Sichuan Officials Continue to Foster the Relationship Between Bitcoin Mining and Hydropower
18.8.2020
The province of Sichuan is well known for being one of the largest concentrations of bitcoin miners on earth because electrical costs are extremely cheap in the region. Data shows that miners using hydropower in Sichuan are paying between 0.065-0.075 yuan or $0.01 per kilowatt-hour. According...
Top Bitcoin Mining Pools See 15% Hash Rate Drop Amid Continuous Rainstorms in China
18.8.2020
Major Chinese bitcoin mining pools are each seeing daily hash rate drops between 10 to 20% as continuous rainstorms in Sichuan disrupt power supply
Huobi Launches Global DeFi Alliance To Merge East and West
17.8.2020
Can teamwork bring together the fragmented crypto space?
China’s Digital Yuan CBDC Is Close, but Many Details Remain Unknown
17.8.2020
Despite the interest currently surrounding the digital yuan, some are not yet sure of the project’s overall scope and mainstream viability
China Testing Digital Currency in Major Cities, Including Beijing and Hong Kong
17.8.2020
China’s Ministry of Commerce has announced the pilot run of the country’s central bank-backed digital currency in major cities, including Beijing, Hong Kong, and Macau. It will also be tested during the 2022 Winter Olympics games in Beijing, the ministry said. China Announces Testing...
Bull Runs, Mining, and Tor Attacks: Bad Crypto News of the Week
16.8.2020
Check out this week’s Bad Crypto podcast
US Federal Reserve Reveals Building a Digital Dollar Codebase With MIT
15.8.2020
The U.S. central bank has been working on creating a digital dollar, according to a recently published transcript from Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard. On Thursday, she told participants attending “San Francisco’s Innovation Office Hours” webcast, that the Fed...
A WeChat Ban Should Be the Moment for Decentralized Tech. But It’s Not.
14.8.2020
President Trump’s threat to ban WeChat could disrupt the communication of millions of people. Decentralized technology is one solution, but will people really use it? Not necessarily, industry watchers say
Blockchain Bites: Ripple’s Rebuff, DeFi’s ‘Degens’ and China’s CBDC
14.8.2020
Both the U.S. and China are advancing on their central bank digital currency (CBDC) designs while a Bitcoin developer created a new programming language
China Set for Huge Expansion of Digital Currency Pilot
14.8.2020
The Chinese central bank is reportedly set to massively expand the scope of its digital yuan pilots – as the nation edges closer to a central bank digital currency (CBDC) issuance.
Per a report from the Wall Street Journal, the nation’s Ministry of Commerce said that the pilot – so far active...
China Expands Digital Yuan Trials to Beijing and Neighboring Provinces
14.8.2020
While there is not yet a set time for the expanded pilot program to begin, a policy framework should be complete by the end of 2020
China to Launch Major Expansion of Digital Currency Trials
14.8.2020
China is said to be planning additional testing of its digital yuan across a number of developed regions including Hong Kong
Australian Woman Jailed Two Years for Stealing $300,000 Worth of XRP
13.8.2020
An Australian hacker who stole 100,000 units of the XRP cryptocurrency has been sentenced to a maximum of two years and three months in jail, local media reported. Kathryn Nguyen hacked the crypto account of a 56-year old man in January 2018. Working with an accomplice, the 25-year-old Sydney woman...
Nigerians Are Using Bitcoin to Bypass Trade Hurdles With China
13.8.2020
Nigerian entrepreneurs are increasingly using bitcoin as a way to trade internationally, noting its significant benefits over legacy financial systems
‘It’s Too Hard to Participate’: CWV Partner on China’s Blockchain Blueprint
12.8.2020
Collaborating with the government is never easy