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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...

Following the Ethereum Merge which occurred on September 14 of this year, a bonus reward was placed in the pockets of energy and climate advocates everywhere. It seems after the Merge was complete, the world’s energy consumption fell by roughly .2 percent overnight. Who would have known that mining ETH really did utilize that much energy? The Ethereum Merge Has Significantly Lowered Worldwide Energy Use The Merge has been a long talked-about event that would occur with...

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Crypto mining firm Clean Spark is purchasing a whole new bitcoin mining facility in the city of Mawson, Georgia. The business – which is being sold for approximately $33 million – will help Clean Spark by increasing its hash rate to about 1.3 exahashes per second. Clean Spark Is Building Its Empire The topic of crypto mining continues to be a controversial one. Without mining, there would be no crypto. We all know that by now. For the most part, unless something like...

Bitcoin miners are now holding fewer than 2 million BTC on reserve, according to data from IntoTheBlock.  That’s the lowest amount of Bitcoin held by all tracked pools and miners since 2010, following a steady decline over the past decade.  Dwindling Miner Reserves IntoTheBlock’s data tracks the Bitcoin belonging to the on-chain addresses of various major miners and mining pools – including Poolin, F2Pool, Binance, Bitfury, and others.  In aggregate, total reserves numbered...

Change is in the air as the crypto space continues to see top executives step down from their roles amid the market crisis that stemmed from the Terra Luna fiasco and the Federal Reserve’s continuous interest rate hike, which negatively impacted the global financial market. The change in crypto-related executive leadership started with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey stepping down from the company’s board of directors in May. While Twitter is not a crypto-focused firm, Dorsey...

INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Sep. 29, 2022 – LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, has listed CHREMACOIN (CRMC) on September 29, 2022. For all users of LBank Exchange, the CRMC/USDT trading pair is now officially available for trading. Utilizing the power of blockchain technology, CHREMA provides a new type of metaverse platform for digital gold distribution service. Its native token CHREMACOIN (CRMC) has been listed on LBank Exchange at 7:00 UTC on September...

The Texas-based bitcoin mining giant is entering a merger agreement with SilverSun Technologies, a publicly-traded business technology solutions provider, as Rhodium is planning to list on Nasdaq after an initial delay. Meanwhile, the fall in the price of BTC and the ongoing crypto winter has caused bitcoin mining companies to struggle to stay afloat. Rhodium Makes Another Shot to go Public In an announcement on Thursday (September 29, 2022), the merger between SilverSun and...

As volatility in the crypto market continues, another company has decided to halt all withdrawals as a means of retaining and controlling liquidity. This time, the firm in question is a crypto mining pool provider known as Poolin, and none of the firm’s customers can gain access to their money. Poolin Is Preventing Customers from Accessing Their Money The maneuver has got a lot of crypto traders and analysts worried given that these kinds of steps only lead to more...