Bitcoin is like ‘high-flying, high-beta tech stock’
Anastasia Amoroso explains why bitcoin has been on a tear recently. She sees the world’s largest cryptocurrency as a tech asset. Bitcoin is currently up roughly 80% versus the start of the year. Bitcoin has been on a tear ever since the Federal Reserve skipped a rate hike for the first time since March 2022. […]
Bitmain Says New Liquid Cooling Miner Is its Most Power Efficient Model to Date
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Bitcoin Miners’ February Production Fell on Shorter Month, Winter Storm
Recently, Argo and privately held Gem Mining both said the curtailing of operations to support community needs for extra power lowered their production in February, among other reasons. Meanwhile, seasonal energy curtailment programs in Quebec, Canada, also hampered the monthly bitcoin production for Canadian miner Bitfarms (BITF). “As planned, seasonal energy curtailment programs at our […]
Now You Can Try ‘Teleporting’ Bitcoin for Greater Privacy With CoinSwaps
“Imagine a future where a user, Alice, has bitcoins and wants to send them with maximal privacy, so she creates a special kind of transaction. For anyone looking at the blockchain her transaction appears completely normal with her coins seemingly going from address A to address B. But in reality her coins end up in […]
10M Ether Now Locked on Eth 2.0 Staking Contract
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OnlyFans Donated 500 ETH to DAO Supporting Ukraine
At the point that OnlyFans made the 500 ETH donation, the DAO was stalled at about half of the 1,000 ETH reserve amount, a representative said. The OnlyFans donation pushed the amount over the top, and from that point on, more donations began to pile in.
Kava Deploys Ethereum Developer Support on Testnet
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Convex Finance Bug Causes CVX Token to Sink on Forced Token Unlock
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Algorand Upgrade Set to Allow for Easy Creation of Complex Dapps
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