Mining

The White House is attempting to persuade Congress to pass a 30% climate change tax on cryptocurrency miners as part of its next federal budget. The change, titled the Digital Asset Mining Energy (DAME) excise tax, is designed to encourage mining firms to start taking better account of their so-called ‘societal harms’, including higher energy prices and greenhouse gas emissions.  Taxing Bitcoin Miners As reported by Yahoo News, the president’s Council of Economic Advisors...

Benjamin Von Wong – a Canadian artist responsible for creating the “Skull of Satoshi” installation back in mid-March – has apologized for his work, claiming in a recent interview that it was “never meant to be anti-bitcoin,” and he is not pleased people took it in such a way. Benjamin Wong: I Never Sought to Create an Anti-Bitcoin Project Wong stated: It was an optimistic hope that bitcoin could shift away from the needless burning of fossil fuels without losing all the...

Despite a relatively broad history with cryptocurrencies and digital assets, graphics card manufacturer Nvidia has come out to say that crypto has no purpose in society. Nvidia Doesn’t Think Crypto Has Much to It In a recent interview, the company’s chief technology officer Micheal Kagan commented that the graphics cards Nvidia creates should be utilized for activities other than simply mining crypto. He suggested using them to power AI-based technologies like Chat GPT....

The Kingdom of Bhutan – a landlocked country situated in the Eastern Himalayas – has reportedly used its renewable sources of energy to run a bitcoin mining operation for years. A government representative said the process started when BTC was worth around $5,000. It is worth noting that the primary cryptocurrency reached that level for the first time in October 2017. Another country that has done so is El Salvador. The Latin American nation, which became the first to make...

A crypto-centered lawsuit with popular digital currency exchange Coinbase as the defendant is heading to the Supreme Court. This marks the first time such a high-ranking court in the U.S. has ever considered such a case. The Supreme Court Is Examining a Coinbase Suit The plaintiff is a man who was, at one point, a customer of Coinbase. It’s alleged the man gave a scammer (who was pretending to be a representative of PayPal) remote access to his Coinbase account. This...

Texas became a serious crypto mining hub about two years ago, and it looks like things are set to stay this way for some time. Despite a wide array of headwinds and problems the industry has been facing, Texas crypto mining has remained quite steady, and the Lone Star State is still being sought out by new companies and facilities. Texas Is Still the High-Ranking Crypto Mining Official Texas became a serious region for crypto mining beginning in the summer of 2021. The...

Leading cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Gemini are parts of the two consortiums set to bid for bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network’s assets at an auction scheduled for Tuesday, the 25th of April, 2023, according to a court filing and report from Fortune. The court document revealed that the auction would be held at the New York offices of Kirkland and Ellis, the law firm handling Celsius’ bankruptcy, from 2 pm EPT. Coinbase and Gemini to Bid for Celsius’ Assets One...

KuCoin has assured all the impacted users that it would reimburse them the amount lost while also pledging additional security measures. In the latest development, the hackers managed to briefly breach the Twitter account of the crypto exchange KuCoin thereby causing the exchange users to lose more than $22,000. Earlier today on April 24, hackers took over KuCoin’s Twitter account for 45 minutes, promoting a fake activity. Although the incident was brief, KuCoin has acknowledged that it...

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The authorities of Venezuela have reportedly urged local bitcoin miners to temporarily halt operations while inspecting a major corruption scheme that could have drained up to $20 billion. People who are part of President Maduro’s inner cycle are suspected of orchestrating the crime that involved the national oil and gas company – Petróleos de Venezuela. Pausing Crypto Activities During the Investigation According to a Forbes coverage, large-scale BTC miners in Venezuela will...