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It looks like North America is about to become a major player in the bitcoin mining sector thanks to companies like Core Scientific.Core Scientific Is Paving the WayThe enterprise has recently inked a deal with a mining equipment venture in Malaysia to purchase more than 17,500 Antminer machines from Bitmain. The company has already gotten its hands on some of these machines and have installed them so that miners can begin extracting new coins. The rest of the machines are slated to arrive by...

Gold’s price reached an 8-year high this week, and a Goldman Sachs projection sees the precious metal to continue rising in the next twelve months to $2,000 per troy ounce.At the same time, famous gold-bug Peter Schiff believes its price could reach a new all-time high even before the end of the year, especially if President Trump loses the election.Goldman Sachs Bullish on GoldWhile the giant multinational investment bank recently seemed somewhat pessimistic regarding Bitcoin’s role in the...

Court documents reveal the self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin, Craig Wright, may have subjected himself to a suicide attempt in May 2016.That’s according to the deposition of Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen, who recounted the story during the ongoing trial between Craig Wright and the estate of Dave Kleiman.Context: Craig Wright’s Failed Attempt to Move Satoshi’s BitcoinCraig Wright promised to move coins from Bitcoin’s ninth block in 2016 – something only Satoshi could so.In a deposition...

Was Obyte so besonders macht? Im Gegensatz zu den meisten anderen Altcoins setzt Obyte nicht auf eine klassische Blockchain, sondern auf ein DAG. Der sogenannte Directed Acyclic Graph ist zwar nicht unbedingt neu, macht Obyte dennoch zu einem speziellen Cryptocoin, der viele Probleme der Blockchain-Scalability lösen könnte.Crypto News: Obytes DAG im Vergleich zur BlockchainObyte hat in seinem offiziellen Blog eine detaillierte Zusammenstellung veröffentlicht, welche die Blockchain und das DAG...

It’s been a fruitful year for ChainLink (LINK) and its investors despite the pandemic-induced market downturn in mid-March. The project has not only recorded significant partnerships and developments since the start of 2020 but has also seen a massive boost in the number of crypto traders and investors holding the LINK token.LINK Holders Surpass 160k In 6 MonthsAs of January 1st, 2020, the total number of addresses holding ChainLink’s native cryptocurrency was around the 80,000 level....

ConsenSys and AMD raised $20 million to fund W3BCLOUD, a startup working to provide a reliable infrastructure for the growing blockchain ecosystem.As the world advances in technology, several business entities are playing a key role in driving the change. While some participants in the technological revolution on the passive side, others are major participants with real-time research and development of tech products. There has been a remarkable disruption in these tech products in recent...

Hey Informanten, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 912. Heute sprechen wir über folgende Themen: Gefahr für Krypto durch neues Anti-Verschlüsselungsgesetz, Bitcoin Preis Explosion wäre ein Disaster & Ansturm auf Österreichs zweite 100-jährige Anleihe. 1.) Auch Krypto in Gefahr? Neues Anti-Verschlüsselungsgesetz richtet sich gegen WhatsApp und...

The man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright, took to his blog this week to warn Bitcoin and cryptocurrency developers that “his” invention is not for communists.Wright bemoaned the current trend in the cryptocurrency space, which sees many coins launch with built-in developers funds or pre-mines. According to Wright, this is tantamount to a communist takeover, and simply places all of the risks on the purchaser of such coins – not the development teams themselves.Craig Wright: Dev...

Chris Larsen says that the development of organizations like Ripple is a way for the U.S. to go for the crypto space.Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen is concerned about the U.S. regulatory response to blockchain technology. He indicated this during an interview with Wall Street journalist Paul Vigna. When asked about his views on Facebook‘s jumping into the crypto space Larsen said that Facebook “coming on board” was a major milestone.He admitted that Facebook’s Libra project ran into “quite a...

On-chain data shows that crypto investors are not taking profit, however, they are still holding on even in the face of economic uncertainty and the strong performance of bitcoin. It may come quite shocking but by the data on the 15th of June, 60.63% of all of the bitcoin has not moved an inch for over a year even though it peaked a couple of months ago and reached its highest in the last 2 years. This information comes from Glassnode, which is a blockchain data and intelligence provider...