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PortuguêsAccording to reports, Sichuan’s Ya’an municipal government has asked Bitcoin miners to shutdown operations in the city. None of the three local sources available at the moment mention how long…
Continue ReadingThe Bitcoin Mining Council has publicized its aim to tackle negative media narratives. In its inaugural meeting which was hosted on Twitter Spaces, the council discussed bad press that has…
Continue ReadingThe mining company Bitfarms has revealed the firm will commence trading on Nasdaq Global Select Market starting on June 21. The firm claims to process 1% of the global hashrate…
Continue ReadingCrypto miners in Ya’an City have reportedly been ordered to temporarily shut down their operations. Chinese authorities continue to crack down on cryptocurrency mining as a city in Sichuan province…
Continue ReadingBitcoin mining firm Genesis Digital Assets has purchased an additional 10,000 Bitcoin miners from the ASIC machine manufacturer Canaan. By the end of the month, Canaan plans to complete the…
Continue ReadingIran’s information technology minister has pitched the idea of transforming the Persian Gulf island of Kish into an international center for cryptocurrency exchanges. Iranian authorities plan to create a financial…
Continue ReadingThe Beijing-based ASIC mining rig manufacturer Canaan announced the sale of 10,000 bitcoin mining machines to the firm Genesis Digital Assets Limited. Canaan plans to deliver the 10,000 A1246 and…
Continue ReadingChina’s crackdown on Bitcoin mining has led to an increase in clean bitcoin mining operations. Even though trading of cryptocurrencies has been banned in China since 2017, the country still…
Continue ReadingBurfa intends to purchase new cryptocurrency mining equipment from Bitmain to boost its data-center capacity. Estonian technology conglomerate Burfa is turning to Bitmain to supply key cryptocurrency mining infrastructure to…
Continue ReadingAuthorities in Abkhazia, the partially recognized South Caucasus republic, have discovered and closed down eight crypto mining farms in just two weeks. Since the beginning of June, law enforcement agents…
Continue ReadingCyberthreats related to cryptocurrencies have increased with rising demand for the digital assets, a study has concluded. Russia, Thailand and Peru are the most affected countries by malicious attacks designed…
Continue ReadingAuthorities in Yunnan are launching an investigation to identify and shut down miners that are illegally using electrical power to mint bitcoin, Chinese media reports. Inspections will also focus on…
Continue ReadingThe NY state assembly needs to approve any bill or propose amendments before it can be signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. A bill which would have required miners…
Continue ReadingThe Netherlands must ban the mining, trading and holding of Bitcoin because it doesn’t meet any of the three functions of money and is handy for criminals, one Dutch official…
Continue ReadingXinjiang crypto miners forced to shut down, Antpool hash rates drop by 30%, and Baidu and Weibo try to scrub crypto players from their platforms. This weekly roundup of news…
Continue ReadingMajor North American bitcoin mining firm Hut 8 Mining has been approved for listing on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol HUT. The company is also listed on the Toronto Stock…
Continue ReadingU.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren criticized Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies yesterday in a Banking Senate Subcommittee hearing. In the hearing, Warren criticized the energy consumption that Bitcoin and other proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies…
Continue ReadingThe bitcoin mining hub has slowly been losing its dominance in the global hash market. Over the past few weeks, Bitcoin markets have had to deal with a swarm of…
Continue ReadingAuthorities in Iran have confiscated 3,000 units of mining hardware in just one week as part of a push to curb illegal crypto mining amid power shortages and blackouts. In…
Continue ReadingEl Salvador has begun exploring bitcoin mining using energy from its volcanoes, President Nayib Bukele has revealed. “Our engineers just informed me that they dug a new well that will…
Continue ReadingFollowing the report that indicates specific Chinese miners in the Xinjiang region were told by officials to shut down, another agency in Qinghai has informed miners to cease operations in…
Continue ReadingLuxor and NYDIG have teamed up to foster growth for the North American crypto mining industry. Seattle-based mining software company Luxor has closed a Series A funding round led by…
Continue ReadingBitcoin is heating up — some may say erupting — as the Latin American country plans to tap energy from volcanoes for mining the cryptocurrency. Nayib Bukele’s plans for crypto…
Continue ReadingIranian president Hassan Rouhani discussed cryptocurrencies at the most recent meeting of the government’s Economic Coordination Board and told participants that regulatory policy is needed to protect consumers. Rouhani believes…
Continue ReadingAn official notice stemming from the Changji prefecture government in Xinjiang details that officials from the Zhundong Economic-Technological Development Park must instruct bitcoin miners to shut down. China’s province of…
Continue ReadingReduced network activity is resulting in lower fees for Bitcoin and Ethereum as both recede heavily from their all-time highs. The cost of using the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains is on…
Continue ReadingOn Monday, the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) manufacturer Canaan Inc. announced the company has established an overseas after-sales center in Kazakhstan. According to Canaan, the service center will provide local…
Continue ReadingNew technologies, including blockchain and cryptocurrency mining, have helped Iran to increase budget receipts and withstand foreign sanctions, according to the country’s minister for economy and finance. The high-ranking official…
Continue ReadingSina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, banned the accounts of several key cryptocurrency and defi influencers in the country yesterday, according to reports from local sources. This might be…
Continue ReadingBitcoin is not responsible for dirty energy — people are. But Elon Musk is now responsible for Dogecoin. Elon Musk is definitely interested in digital currency, but it seems that…
Continue ReadingNorton has added a cryptocurrency mining feature to its antivirus software. Users will be able to mine ethereum while their computers are idle. Miners can track and transfer their crypto…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrencies have jumped quite a bit in value over the course of the year and miners who verify transactions and earn digital assets have seen significant profits. While bitcoin miners…
Continue ReadingIn this session, Matt Roszak, Emiliano Grodzki, Amanda Fabiano and Kevin Zhang discuss the mining industry’s future. This conference session took place during Whale Day at the Bitcoin 2021 conference…
Continue ReadingThe mining rig manufacturer Canaan saw steady profits during the Q1 after reporting its unaudited first quarter 2021 financial results on Tuesday. Canaan noted that it expects to at least…
Continue ReadingManufacturers restrict mining of cryptocurrencies due to a shortage of GPU cards: Will this lead to the end of mining as we know it? After an exceptional start to the…
Continue ReadingArgentina, the ailing South American country, is experiencing a cryptocurrency mining resurgence due to artificially low power rates maintained by subsidies from the national government. This fact, alongside exchange controls…
Continue ReadingNvidia’s RTX 3070 and 3080 Ti models will go on sale over the course of the coming month. Nvidia’s new 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti graphics cards will launch with…
Continue ReadingRay Dalio discussing his bitcoin investment, Texas pushing through a bill that provides legal framework, and more in this weekly update. Last Week In Bitcoin is a new segment covering…
Continue ReadingDescribed by some as an investment roller coaster ride, the value of bitcoin and its unabating volatility can be difficult to comprehend. The fluctuations in bitcoin’s value acts as both…
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