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Big mining move: Bitcoin’s hash power increases 42% in two days
10.11.2020
It appears many Chinese miners have completed their annual migration from Sichuan, with Bitcoin’s hash rate spiking more than 40% in two days
Markets Spike as Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Shows 90% Success Rate
9.11.2020
Bitcoin and U.S. stock futures shot up on Monday after Pfizer announced positive results from a trial of its coronavirus vaccine
Limit Promise Concurrency with pool
3.11.2020
Methods like Promise.all, Promise.allSettled, Promise.race, and the rest are really excellent for managing multiple Promises, allowing for our apps to embrace async and performance. There are times, however, that limiting the number of concurrent operations may be useful, like rate limiting...
The company that coined the term ‘hash rate’ is not concerned about its recent decline
30.10.2020
Bitcoin's hash rate is down on the year, though the price remains largely unaffected
‘Price follows hash rate’ — Bitcoin fundamentals drop may delay $14K
29.10.2020
Echoes of June appear among miners, but the future could likewise produce a price rebound if history repeats itself
DeFi needs more fixed-rate lending protocols: Messari researcher
29.10.2020
Researcher argues that fixed rate lending and borrowing would bring DeFi closer to traditional finance
Bitcoin price sees pullback, but bulls still marching toward $20K
28.10.2020
Bitcoin’s price saw a 4% drop in the last 24 hours, but it’s unlikely to see a correction like in previous cycles for three reasons
Paycoin to Integrate with Chainlink to Access Exchange Rate APIs
28.10.2020
Decentralized data oracle network Chainlink announced that South Korea’s leading crypto payments network Paycoin integrates with the platform. As per the official tweet, Paycoin will use Chainlink’s price feeds and exchange rate APIs for crypto payments across retail and e-commerce networks....
BTC hash rate slumps amid seasonal miner migration in China
27.10.2020
Analysts are anticipating Bitcoin’s second-largest negative difficulty adjustment of the year following the end of Sichuan’s rainy season
Notional Launches Out of Stealth to Bring Fixed-Rate Lending to DeFi
26.10.2020
Lending rates on all the top DeFi platforms are dizzyingly variable. Enter Notional, a new protocol with backing from Coinbase and others
How Stocks, Bitcoin and Other Investments Fare in a 0% Interest Rate World
18.10.2020
On Long Reads Sunday, a reading of a John Street Capital piece on the realities of a market characterized by zero-bound interest rates
Foreign Crypto Exchanges Like Paxful, Binance to Pay 1.5% Tax Under Kenya’s New Regulations
16.10.2020
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has clarified that its planned digital service tax (DST) will be applicable to cryptocurrencies at a rate of 1.5% on gross transaction value, local media reported. In August, the agency announced new rules for the taxation of what it calls “digital...
Bank of England Moves Closer to Negative Interest Rates, Asks Banks if They Are Ready
13.10.2020
The Bank of England has moved closer to adopting a negative interest rate policy. The central bank has asked commercial banks in the U.K. to provide details of how ready they are to deal with negative interest rates, asserting that for the policy to be effective, commercial banks need to be ready...
The first-ever mining hardware marketplace just launched
12.10.2020
This company presents an alternative to "sketchy" Telegram channels for second-hand mining equipment
DeFi market fall showcases how rising TVL doesn’t tell the full story
12.10.2020
Could the DeFi market be a bubble as both market capitalization and indices crash?
Dollar dip meets hash rate boom: 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
12.10.2020
Analysts warn that U.S. dollar could return to its 2018 lows as Bitcoin fundamentals steam to new records this week
ETH hash rate hits all time high, mining it is 3X more profitable than BTC
7.10.2020
The Ethereum hash rate broke the 250 TH/s barrier for the first time since Aug. 2018
Curate Custom Content with mediastack
6.10.2020
I used to have a personal aggregator of sites I enjoyed but maintaining it was a nightmare. I needed to grab each site’s RSS feed, categorize their contents, deal with errors and individual rate limits, etc. I had to tear the whole project down because it was a nightmare to manage. Fast...
Bitcoin Posts a 66-Day Consecutive Streak Above the $10K Price Range
1.10.2020
The Bitcoin network has achieved a few new milestones during the last week, as the price has remained above the $10k range for a record 66 consecutive days. Meanwhile, the network has surpassed 18.5 million bitcoin issued, as the global hashrate coasts along at an all-time high of 140 exahash...
Bloomberg suggests that Bitcoin should be $15,000 according to this adoption metric
23.9.2020
Their belief seems to be that Bitcoin is destined to appreciate unless these key indicators reverse themselves