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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits a Lifetime High After a 5.56% Increase, Metric Nears 30 Trillion
27.4.2022
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty reached a lifetime high on April 27, at block height 733,824, after jumping 5.56% higher than two weeks ago. The difficulty jump further indicates that Bitcoin’s difficulty is also nearing 30 trillion, as the change on Wednesday shows the current difficulty...
Former Chinese Central Bank Governor: US Dollar Will Remain Global Reserve Currency, Says It ‘Has Great Inertia’
27.4.2022
In remarks that appear to pour cold water on assertions that digital currencies will topple the U.S. dollar anytime soon, a former governor of the Chinese central bank, Zhou Xiaochuan, insisted the greenback will remain in its position as the global reserve currency. Xiaochuan said the dollar still...
Decentralized credit scores: How can blockchain tech change ratings
24.4.2022
Borrowing and lending are two important parts of DeFi, but they have been missing an effective operating credential: a decentralized credit rating
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Surges Reaching a Lifetime High, Difficulty Expected to Jump Next Week
24.4.2022
Bitcoin’s hashrate tapped a lifetime high this weekend reaching 271.19 exahash per second (EH/s) on Saturday, April 23 at block height 733,197. Currently, the computational power is coasting along at 233.81 EH/s with a network difficulty change expected three days from now on April...
Gas-to-Bitcoin Mining Firm Crusoe Energy Systems Raises $505 Million
22.4.2022
On Thursday, the bitcoin mining and flare gas mitigation firm Crusoe Energy Systems Inc. revealed it secured $505 million in new capital from strategic investors. According to the announcement, the Series C equity funding round was led by the climate technology venture capital firm G2 Venture...
Solana-Based Climate Change Project Employs ‘NFTrees’ to Save Rainforests
21.4.2022
GainForest combines satellite imagery with data science in a bid to incentivize landowners away from cutting down trees
NumisMe: Crypto’s First Cash Protocol – Pay With Cash and Receive Change Back Electronically
15.4.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Eugene, Oregon April 15th, 2022: If there was ever a universal truth to which we could all agree, it would be change. An unequivocal reality of the cosmos, change is constant. Despite emotions, thoughts, or actions, change is an unstoppable force for which there is no immovable...
Golden State Warriors Commemorate 2022 NBA Playoff Run With a Responsive NFT Collection
12.4.2022
On Tuesday, the NBA team the Golden State Warriors announced the organization’s second non-fungible token (NFT) collection to commemorate the team’s 2022 NBA Playoff run. The Warriors NFT compilation is being called “a responsive NFT collection” as the NFTs will change...
Ms. Pac-Man Bizarrely Replaced With New Wife (?) In Pac-Man Game
8.4.2022
While long-time fans of the series will know that Ms. Pac-Man is the wife of Mr. Pac-Man, and appeared as such in the 1984 side-scroller Pac-Land, a new re-release of the game has gone to the trouble of changing the character.Read more
Gamified Financial and Crypto Education: How Dohrnii Is Changing the Game
7.4.2022
The crypto space is growing at a rapid pace, and it’s beginning to change major industries around the world. Even with the widespread of crypto, some people still do not have any idea of what it is. According to a survey mabe by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), three in 10 people in the...
Heroes of Arcan Announces Community-Driven Heroic Fantasy Play-to-Earn Game
7.4.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Heroes of Arcan aims to create a play-to-earn game that offers players engaging, challenging peer-to-peer strategic gameplay backed by ethical, carbon-neutral blockchain technology. The play-to-earn revolution has catalyzed global change in blockchain and cryptocurrency markets, with...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calls cryptocurrency CO2 emissions a 'growing concern'
4.4.2022
The group said that all technologies — seemingly including crypto — had the potential to enable emissions reductions as well as increased emissions based on how they were governed
Latashá: 'It’s Just beautiful to See People’s Minds Change'
4.4.2022
The rapper, a speaker at CoinDesk's festival in June, on music NFTs, on building the Zora community and why gas fees are still worth it
RChain: 3 Lessons Web 3.0 Can’t Afford to Ignore
4.4.2022
There’s a tendency in the tech world to toss out old tech and go all-in on a new replacement. “Oh, don’t use that. That’s the old thing! Use the new thing instead.” This advice is best suited to those who adapt quickly to technological change—in other...
White House OSTP to Examine Whether Digital Assets Impede Efforts to Curb Climate Change
1.4.2022
On March 9, United States President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets, a precursor to upcoming digital asset and Blockchain legislation feared by many in the industry. As part of this executive order, the White House Office of Science...
Bank of Spain Warns About Risk of Extended Use of Unregulated Cryptocurrencies in the Country
31.3.2022
The deputy governor of the Bank of Spain, Margarita Delgado, gave her opinion about cryptocurrencies and how they are increasing the risks in today’s economy. At an event hosted by PWC called “A climate of change,” Delgado explained that the continued and extended use...
As Bitcoin’s Hashrate Remains Elevated, BTC’s Mining Difficulty Expected to Reach a Lifetime High
30.3.2022
During the last month, Bitcoin’s hashrate has been coasting along above the 200 exahash per second (EH/s) zone, minus a number of drops here and there above and below that range. Following two difficulty changes that saw the difficulty decrease by 1.84%, the network’s difficulty...
Bitcoiners Scoff at Chris Larsen's $5M Campaign to Force a BTC Code Change
29.3.2022
Working with Greenpeace, the Ripple chairman is attempting to do what big-blockers failed to in 2017: significantly alter Bitcoin's software without widespread consensus
Meta Brings Metaverse-Like 3D Ads to Facebook and Instagram
29.3.2022
Meta is bringing interactive 3D ads to Facebook and Instagram feeds, inspired by the metaverse pivot the company has begun to execute since its name change. This is possible due to a new integration in Meta’s AR (Augmented Reality) publishing library with a development from a company called...
Greenpeace, Ripple co-founder campaigning to change Bitcoin code
29.3.2022
Chris Larsen, co-founder of Ripple also joined in on the call, saying Bitcoin is the “outlier” now that Ethereum’s model is set to change