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Trygve Slagsvold Vedum – the Finance Minister of Norway – urged the government to scrap its crypto program that allows domestic bitcoin miners to pay a reduced rate on electricity. In his view, the current market conditions and the ongoing energy crisis in Europe are key reasons for this amendment. BTC Miners Should not Be Treated Differently In 2016, the Norwegian government introduced certain energy benefits for data centers, including cryptocurrency miners, by enabling...

The US-based bitcoin miner – Marathon Digital Holdings Inc. – reportedly has exposure of more than $80 million in one of its hosting providers – Compute North. Two weeks ago, the latter joined the list of troubled entities affected by the ongoing crypto winter, filing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Multi-Million Exposure According to a coverage by Bloomberg, the cryptocurrency miner had invested $10 million in convertible preferred stock of Compute North. It had allocated an...

Si les cryptomonnaies ont pu à leurs débuts être souvent associées à des externalités négatives, les récents évènements géopolitiques en Ukraine ou au Liban ont montré des usages plus que pertinents. Le Salvador a même commencé à utiliser le bitcoin comme monnaie officielle. Les cryptomonnaies ne deviendraient-elles pas un outil géopolitique ? Présentation d’Alexandre Stachtchenko pour Bpifrance

Not long ago, Live Bitcoin News published an article talking about the world’s first cryptocurrency insider trading case, which occurred at the hands of a former employee of popular digital currency exchange Coinbase. It now looks like that case has reached a new pinnacle. Former Coinbase Employee May Have Conducted Insider Trades The case involves Ishan Wahi, a former product manager for Coinbase. He is accused of receiving private information about what coins the...

La série documentaire « Le Mystère Satoshi – aux origines du bitcoin » sera projetée gratuitement le 4 novembre à 15h au Forum des images à Paris dans le cadre du festival Vrai de Vrai organisé par la Scam*. La projection sera suivie d’un échange avec Rémi Forte, le réalisateur. Le festival met en lumière les projets ayant gagné une « étoile de la Scam » et remettra un prix du jury ainsi qu’un...

In terms of overall market movements, not much was happening in the past seven days. The total capitalization remained somewhat flat, around $990 million, unable to recover above the coveted $1 trillion mark. Bitcoin’s price, as well as that of the majority of altcoins, also failed to post a significant difference. At the time of this writing, Bitcoin’s price trades at around $19,700 – more or less where it was this time last week. The volatility is currently gone from the...

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The payroll and job reports from the world’s largest economy were slightly above expectations for September. However, BTC reacted with a sharp price decline, as it typically happens when the US publishes any sort of data lately. Although the numbers for September are below August and the average for 2022, the States added 263,000 new jobs during the month, and the unemployment rate decreased to 3.5%, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These figures are slightly above...

Now that Ethereum has completed its Merge and gone from a proof of work (PoW) module to proof of stake (PoS), many environmental groups want bitcoin to do the same. Several have formed together to establish an initiative called “Change the Code, Not the Climate” as a means of pushing bitcoin more towards less energy-intensive methods of extracting units. Change the Code Seeks to Change BTC Forever $1 million has been spent on the Change the Code campaign. Greenpeace is also launching a new...

Synthèse d’une présentation de @TheoPantamis lors d’un Space Twitter technique consacré à MuSiG2. MuSig est un schéma d’agrégation de signatures semi-interactif. Ce que permet MuSig c’est de représenter une transaction à signatures multiples par une seule clé publique. Avec MuSig, tous les multisigs basés sur Taproot apparaitront comme une dépense simple. Le mutisig n’aura pas à donner toute une liste de clés publiques et il n’y aura...