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Solo Bitcoin miner defies odds to mine valid BTC block, gets $150K block reward
13.3.2023
The act of mining a valid BTC block solo is so rare that the event has occurred only 270 times out of the 700,000 blocks produced in the last 13 years
Billionaire Warns of Imminent Bank Runs if Government Fails to Guarantee All SVB Deposits
12.3.2023
Billionaire Bill Ackman has warned of “vast and profound” consequences of the U.S. government letting Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) fail without protecting all depositors. “No company will take even a tiny chance of losing a dollar of deposits as there is no reward for this risk....
Hacker returns stolen funds to Tender.fi, gets $97K bounty reward
8.3.2023
The bounty, which was offered via an on-chain message was approximately $97,000 or approximately 6% of the exploit amount
Bitcoin Miners Brace for Another Projected Difficulty Increase as Hashrate Heats Up Amid Market Uncertainty
5.3.2023
Despite a 9.95% increase last week and the all-time high difficulty, bitcoin’s hashrate has averaged around 305 exahash per second (EH/s) over the past 30 days. According to current data, the hashrate has been around 308 EH/s over the past 2,016 blocks. The next difficulty change, set...
Voyager's Reward Program Lost $58M in 2022: Court Filing
1.3.2023
Rewards program included high-yield interest accounts, a refer-a-friend scheme, and a mechanism to share in the spread of trades should they execute at a lower asking price
GameStop Offers $5,000 Reward To Stop PS5 Crime Spree
23.2.2023
The good thing about the PlayStation 5 shortage being over now is that people who want the consoles can finally buy them. The bad news is that it’s also apparently led to an uptick in GameStop robberies as thieves target the pricey and easy-to-flip consoles. GameStop’s answer? A $5,000 reward...
Nike’s Web3 Platform .SWOOSH Will Reward Creators for Virtual Sneaker Designs
25.1.2023
The global sportswear brand is offering a $5,000 cash prize and a chance to collaborate with Nike designers on a one-of-one virtual sneaker
SHIB Token Sees Rise Ahead of Shibarium Beta Launch
16.1.2023
The meme token shiba inu has seen a rise against the U.S. dollar during the last seven days as the coin’s supporters anticipate the beta launch of the layer two (L2) scaling solution Shibarium. Developers detailed on Jan. 15, 2023, that the L2 platform, “Shibarium beta,” is about...
Bitcoin Network’s Mining Difficulty Rises to All-Time High, Making Block Discovery More Challenging
16.1.2023
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty printed a record increase on Jan. 15, 2023, rising 10.26% to 37.73 trillion at block height 772,128. The network’s difficulty is now at an all-time high. This means, on average, it takes 37.73 trillion hashes, or attempts, to find a valid bitcoin block...
Litecoin to Undergo Block Reward Halving in Just Over 200 Days, First Among Major PoW Cryptocurrencies
12.1.2023
In roughly 202 days, the cryptocurrency network Litecoin (LTC) will experience a block reward halving on or around Aug. 3, 2023. Litecoin will be the first major proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain to see a reward reduction before Bitcoin’s upcoming halving, which is expected to occur 203 days...
DeFi Protocol Yearn Finance Will Let Anyone Create Curve Reward Farms
10.1.2023
Yearn was among the first yield aggregators in the now-mature decentralized finance ecosystem
14th Anniversary of Bitcoin’s Genesis Block: A Look Back at the Birth of Cryptocurrency
3.1.2023
14 years ago on Jan. 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin network and block zero at approximately 1:15 p.m. (ET) on a Saturday afternoon. Satoshi’s technology allows “online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial...
Ancient Bitcoin Block Rewards See Decrease in Spending After Record Activity in 2020 and 2021
2.1.2023
In 2021, a number of 2010 block rewards were spent after the bitcoins sat idle for more than a decade. Furthermore, in 2020 and 2021, an early miner from 2010 spent strings of 20 ancient block rewards. In 2022, however, only 17 block rewards from 2010 were spent. Alongside this, on March 10, 2022...
Swarm, Ethereum’s Storage Network, Announces Mainnet Storage Incentives and Web3PC Inception
21.12.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Swarm, the decentralised storage and communication system built on Ethereum, is announcing the mainnet release of its storage incentives programme, a mechanism to reward storage providers, which now incorporates staking. Swarm has been in development for the past five years, having...
Bitcoin.com Games Reveals Top Slots of 2022, Players to Get 50 Free Rounds Every Day for Christmas
20.12.2022
????Bitcoin.com Games to reward free rounds every day to all players until December 31st in Hot Slots of Christmas!???? It’s the holiday season and Bitcoin.com Games has begun unraveling sweet gifts for all its players in the newly launched Hot Slots of Christmas promotion. The premium crypto...
Recently Signed 2009 Bitcoin Block Reward Linked to Hal Finney’s Set of BTC Transactions
15.12.2022
At the end of November, an unknown person signed a signature tied to an extremely old block reward mined on Jan. 19, 2009, and the user published a message and verified signature linked to the reward on the forum bitcointalk.org. The message was tied to a bitcoin address associated with block...
Poloniex Futures Championship: Join to win a Maserati & $1,000,000 reward!
14.12.2022
Poloniex Futures has served a huge customer base for two years since its launch. However, the platform is pursuing great heights to pay back enormously to all its customers by 2023 for their long-standing support. Poloniex Futures is a rather new yet thriving platform for traders and investors...
An Unknown Individual Signed a Message Associated With BTC Block 1,018, Reward Was Minted 16 Days After Satoshi Launched Bitcoin
3.12.2022
On Nov. 15, 2022, a post was created on the forum website bitcointalk.org and the thread’s creator asked people to share signatures tied to some of their oldest mined bitcoin blocks. 11 days later, a newly created bitcointalk.org profile, called “Onesignature,” shared a signed...
Why BudBlockz might yield an outstanding reward than Stellar and Shiba Inu?
29.11.2022
Cryptocurrency investors constantly search for coins that will generate massive wealth for them. It is why, once such a coin is discovered, they stick to it full-time. Certain coins have lived above the cryptocurrency winter by making rewards for their investors. Stellar (XLM) and Shiba Inu (SHIB)...
Bitcoin․com Announces ‘CEX Education Program’ to Reward Victims of Centralized Crypto Failures and Bolster DeFi
20.11.2022
Bitcoin.com announced the creation of a program that will reward people affected by centralized crypto company insolvencies while encouraging the adoption of decentralized finance and self-custody. The CEX Education Program will draw its resources from Bitcoin.com’s wallet token VERSE, which...