Mining

The Bitcoin Gold network reportedly underwent a ‘long-chain attack,’ also known as a 51 percent attack. But the development team claims that it promptly fended off the hostile takeover. The team also supplied mining pools and crypto exchanges with the latest version of BTG Core.Bitcoin Gold Dev Team Thwarts Network Takeover AttemptOn Friday, July 10, the Bitcoin Gold team detected an ‘extremely long chain of over 1300 blocks’. The attackers had been mining this counterfeit chain since July 1...

One out of four men, alleged in a $722 million Ponzi scheme, has pleaded guilty on his charges before а U.S. District Judge. The Romanian programmer Silviu Catalin Balaci, 35, faces a penalty of prison and a fine for a long-running cryptomining fraud with partners.Defrauding Investors Of More Than $722MBalaci was arrested earlier in Germany in December 2019. The charges against him allege that he participated in a well-maintained conspiracy to commit wire fraud and a conspiracy to offer and...

Money Plane Der Gangsterfilm Money Plane widmet sich mit Starpower dem Thema Kryptowährungen. Kelsey Gramer und Denis Richards machen sich auf, eine wertvolle Bitcoin-Fracht aus einem Flugzeug zu befreien. Wie detailgetreu die Darstellung der digitalen Währungen ausfallen wird, bleibt abzuwarten. Der Trailer gibt bereits einen ersten Einblick in die Story. In Money Plane dreht...

Ripple Labs has said XRP is much more energy-efficient than Bitcoin as it was designed with sustainability in mind.Ripple Labs has indicated that XRP is 57,000 times more environmentally friendly than Bitcoin (BTC). The company said this in a recent blog post titled: “The Environmental Impact: Cryptocurrency Mining vs. Consensus”.It comes as XRP prices gained over 3% in the last 24 hours. At the time of filing this report, XRP price was at $0.206573 (+3.71%).In the report, Ripple considered...

The sudden rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications in 2020 has rearranged the cryptocurrency landscape. In a little over two years, a combined sum of $2 billion has made its way into various DeFi protocols, while giving birth to the “yield mining” meme in the meantime.With this in mind, it perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise to learn that searches for Aave have exploded on Google Trends. Aave (LEND) is the third-largest lending protocol on Ethereum, with over $138 million locked in, and...

According to Charles Edwards, founder of crypto asset management firm, Capriole Investments, Bitcoin’s Energy value hit an all-time high. That’s not all. The cryptocurrency’s mining hash rate also posted fresh highs yesterday. Will Bitcoin (BTC) price follow next?Bitcoin’s ‘Intrinsic Value’ Is On the Way UpAs per a tweet posted by Mr. Edwards, Bitcoin’s Energy Value is the cryptocurrency’s ‘intrinsic value.’ This indicator propounded by him has hit new highs and is reason enough to be...

Cryptocurrency appears to be garnering more and more attention as the coronavirus spreads. According to crypto lending platform Block Fi, the company’s monthly revenue has doubled since cases began to spike, suggesting that more people are beginning to see BTC and other forms of crypto as the ultimate way of hedging their wealth against inflation and other economic problems.Block Fi Is Heading for the TopHowever, in a blog post, the company suggests that the bitcoin halving that occurred at...

Sébastien Gouspillou, CEO de Bigblock Data Center, confirme la mise en service prochaine (pendant l’été) de la première tranche d’une nouvelle ferme de mining de bitcoin dans le parc national des Virunga à l’Est de la République démocratique du Congo. Inscrit au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO depuis 1979 pour son exceptionnelle biodiversité, le parc est engagé depuis 2011 dans un programme de développement durable mené par l’Alliance...

After a podcast with popular Bitcoin proponent Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano, the famous comedian Bill Burr said that he will buy BTC. Fellow comedian and co-host Bert Kreischer regretted not buying Bitcoin before but seemed more interested in purchasing mining equipment.Current Economic SituationCo-founder and partner at Morgan Creek Digital Anthony Pompliano recently appeared in a podcast jointly hosted by two popular comedians – Bill Burr and Bert Kreischer.Bill Burr (left) and Bert Kreischer...

By examining a well-known technical component, the popular YouTuber The Moon believes that Bitcoin could be heading towards $6,000 in the next few months if it breaks the vital $8,500 level.Bitcoin And The Wyckoff Distribution PatternThe cryptocurrency analyst initially posted the chart on Twitter in which he has inserted BTC’s current position on the Wyckoff distribution pattern. It works as a medium-term technical instrument that begins in a preliminary supply stage (PSY) where the asset’s...