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U.S. inflation breaks 40-year record: Can Bitcoin serve as a hedge asset?
18.2.2022
Many have likened BTC’s anti-inflation properties to those of gold, but there are important differences between the two assets
More Investors Enter Crypto But Keep Multiple Financial Service Providers - Survey
18.2.2022
Crypto ownership is on the rise, but investors are not abandoning traditional financial services as a result of their intensifying interest in cryptoassets. On the contrary, crypto investors are more likely to use multiple financial services providers than the general population is, suggests...
FBI Crypto Unit, Sequoia Doubles Down on Tokens, Universal Music NFTs + More News
17.2.2022
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Bitcoin Hashrate Hits Another Milestone, Network’s Mining Difficulty Taps 13-Year High
17.2.2022
The processing power backing the Bitcoin network has continued its upward momentum tapping another all-time high (ATH) on February 15, 2022, at 249 exahash per second (EH/s). Following the latest ATH, the network’s mining difficulty increased on Thursday morning (EST), up 4.78% and reaching...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits Its 3rd All-Time High in a Row
17.2.2022
Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty has made another jump, hitting a new all-time high (ATH) – the third one in a row.
Further cutting into the miners' profit margins, the mining difficulty (the measure of how hard it is to compete for mining rewards) just went up 4.78%, reaching almost 27.97...
Sucho na jihozápadě USA je podle vědců nejhorším za posledních 1 200 let
17.2.2022
Jihozápadní oblasti Spojených států a přilehlá území v Mexiku čelí od počátku nového tisíciletí rozsáhlému a úmornému megasuchu. Podle vědců jde o nejhorší souvislé sucho v této části světa za posledních 1 200 let
US Senators Call for El Salvador Bitcoin Adoption Probe, Bukele Responds with ‘OK Boomer’ Barb
17.2.2022
Weeks after memeing the International Monetary Fund (IMF), El Salvador’s outspoken President Nayib Bukele has upped his Twitter game by responding “OK boomers” to a group of United States senators moving to block his bitcoin (BTC) adoption plans....
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Oil giant ConocoPhilips reduces gas flaring emissions via Bitcoin mining
17.2.2022
Oil and gas giant ConocoPhilips has entered the Bitcoin mining business in a bid to profitably reduce carbon emissions
SEC v. Ripple: Here’s how two 2012 memos can turn the tide in the milestone crypto case
16.2.2022
We will soon know if Ripple’s executives were warned of the possibility of an SEC lawsuit ahead of XRP’s launch
Bitcoin Miners Get Creative as Mining Difficulty Set for New All-Time High
16.2.2022
Bitcoin (BTC) miners are increasingly turning to creative methods to become more efficient, while at the same time attempting to improve the image of the electricity-guzzling industry. The new initiatives come as the difficulty of mining new BTC is already at it its highest level ever, and...
Colorado to Accept Crypto for Taxes, Travel Rule & TRUST, Criminal Whales + More News
16.2.2022
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Read More: Colorado to Accept Crypto for Taxes, Travel Rule & TRUST, Criminal Whales + More News
Disney Launches Specialized Metaverse Team to Explore ‘New Storytelling Frontier’
16.2.2022
Disney has created a specialized unit of senior employees and executives to oversee its move into the metaverse.
Per Reuters and the BBC, which claim to have seen a Disney internal memo emailed to staff on the matter, Mike White, an executive who has been with Disney for over a decade, will...
US Senators Fail to Find Stable Ground on Stablecoins
16.2.2022
Stablecoins are not used to pay for real-world goods or services, but are instead a speculative tool for the “shadiest part of the crypto ecosystem,” Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren said during a hearing on stablecoins in the US Senate Banking Committee yesterday. Others, meanwhile, stressed...
Bitcoin ETFs Remain Popular Among Investors Despite Price Slump
15.2.2022
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) backed by bitcoin (BTC) futures contracts traded in the US largely retained their trading volumes last week, despite a slump in the bitcoin price over the course of January.
According to exchange data, the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) – the first bitcoin...
Bitcoin Rises with All Eyes on Ukraine, Fed’s Next Move
15.2.2022
The price of bitcoin (BTC) has been on the rise since the beginning of the week, with traders now keeping an eye on developments in Ukraine, as well as on the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) next move to combat high inflation.
At 10:26 UTC on Tuesday morning, BTC traded at USD 44,137, up 4.5%...
IRA Financial Trust Hack Reportedly Sees USD 36M in Crypto Stolen From Users
15.2.2022
US-based IRA Financial Trust, a regulated financial institution that offers self-directed retirement accounts, has been hit with a hack that resulted in the loss of USD 36m in crypto, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the investigation....
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Bitfinex Hack: Ilya Lichtenstein Remains in Federal Custody, Heather Morgan Released on Bail
15.2.2022
A judge in Washington D.C., USA, denied bail to Ilya Lichtenstein while releasing his wife, Heather Morgan, from detention on bail.
The duo was previously granted bail by a New York judge for an alleged conspiracy to launder USD 4.5bn worth of bitcoin (BTC) stolen from the 2016 hack of...
Bitcoin Hashrate Surges Tapping Lifetime High, Foundry Commands Top Mining Pool Rank for 30 Days
14.2.2022
The processing power backing the Bitcoin network has tapped another all-time high (ATH) in 2022, reaching 246 exahash per second (EH/s) on February 12. After the network reached an ATH on January 15, a month later the hashrate increased by 12.43% — this despite the network’s mining...
BlockFi to Pay USD 100M Fine, Indian Central Banker vs. Crypto, BTC & ETH Flows Changed + More News
14.2.2022
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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Read More: BlockFi to Pay USD 100M Fine, Indian Central Banker vs. Crypto, BTC & ETH Flows Changed + More News
How Raising Interest Rates Curbs Inflation – and What Could Possibly Go Wrong
11.2.2022
Rodney Ramcharan, Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, the University of Southern California.________
After about three decades of relatively low inflation, consumer prices are skyrocketing again in the US. ...
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