Category: Cryptocurrency
The Bitcoin miner’s push to make its facilities run on clean energy reflects a push in the industry for all mining operations to do the same, or to at least use flexible facilities. 612 Total views 7 Total shares Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital Holdings plans on taking a big step toward carbon neutrality with plans […]
The sanctions were part of an international effort aimed at “[disrupting the] proliferation of malicious cybercrime services, dangerous drugs and other illegal offerings.” 967 Total views 12 Total shares The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has announced it will impose sanctions on darknet market Hydra and virtual currency exchange […]
Bitcoin (BTC) is seeing what looks like panic buying by retail investors, as fresh data shows — but all might not be as it seems. In a tweet on April 4, William Clemente, lead insights analyst at Blockware, revealed a large spike in the BTC supply owned by smaller hodlers. 2022 retail FOMO spike “an […]
Terra co-founder Do Kwon reveals that the firm will be buying Bitcoin “in perpetuity” to back new mints of its TerraUSD stablecoin. 5495 Total views 78 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) is the collateral asset of choice for the world‘s biggest decentralized stablecoin, and one of its top executives says there was no other. Speaking to […]
FTX US expects to finalize investment in the Investors Exchange in May 2022, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval. 1004 Total views 41 Total shares Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX continues aggressively investing in traditional finance, with the United States-based affiliate FTX US investing in Investors Exchange (IEX), a U.S. national stock exchange. […]
Whenever Elon Musk does something on Twitter, the crypto market moves in response. Publishing a tweet, changing his profile picture or adding “#Bitcoin” on his bio affects the markets — the latter even more so, sending Bitcoin (BTC) price up by 20%. This is why the community lies in anticipation of what Musk‘s Twitter investment […]
When you think of a crypto-friendly U.S. state, Washington is hardly the first to come to mind. Yet, a lot has been happening on the ground in the Pacific Northwest lately. Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill, SB5544, into law on March 30. The new legislation creates a working group of seven state officials […]
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. 998 Total views 28 Total shares The United Nations arm aimed at assessing the science related to climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or […]
Bears took a hefty swing at BTC price on April 4, but traders say on-chain and technical analysis data point toward a short-lived correction where investors choose to accumulate on each dip. 2324 Total views 23 Total shares The cryptocurrency market rally that began on April 1 ran into tough resistance on April 4, sparking […]
Ethereum’s dominance as the blockchain of choice for DAOs remains strong, but there is a case being made for other chains which may be better suited. 6163 Total views 80 Total shares The crypto community and industry have chosen Ethereum as the chain of choice for most blockchain-based decentralized applications (DApps), but other chains may […]