Mining

Once considered an attractive country for Chinese Bitcoin miners after the country’s crackdown on any BTC mining activity, Kazakhstan now seems to be set to creating new taxes that will negatively impact the industry. On April 14, the Minister of National Economy, Alibek Kuantyrov, said in a government briefing that his team is working on a tax plan that would link tax payments to the valuation of the mined tokens. According to Kuantyrov’s statement, first reported by...

Winemakers in upstate New York are not happy that they’re having to share land with bitcoin and cryptocurrency miners. New York Is Seeing Its Winemakers at Odds with Crypto Miners The state of New York features what are known as the Finger Lakes, a series of thin bodies of water in its upstate region. This area has become popular amongst winemakers given the clean air and wholesomeness of the dirt. The Finger Lakes is fantastic for those looking to grow grapes and create...

Crypto miners in Texas must get approval from ERCOT to connect their rigs to the state’s power grid. Texas Requires New Permissions Before Crypto Can Be Mined It has come to the attention of the crypto world that Texas has become the place to be if one wants to set up a crypto mining business. The state provides vast open spaces and low electricity rates, and it appears many miners have moved their operations to the state to take advantage of Texas’ offerings. The state...

Organisé par Paris P2P, communauté parisienne s’intéressant aux technologies P2P et à la cryptographie, le second Paris P2P Festival se déroulera du 27 avril au 1 mai 2022 (en after-work et le week-end) à l’espace Ground Control, 81 Rue du Charolais à Paris. La soirée du jeudi 28 avril sera consacrée à Bitcoin. Programme – 18h à 21h : Beer-to-beer en salle de conférence – 18h30/19h00 :...

INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Apr. 12, 2022 – LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, will list Vehicle Mining System (VMS) on April 15, 2022. For all users of LBank Exchange, the VMS/USDT trading pair will be officially available for trading at 12:00 (UTC+8) on April 15, 2022. The current mining system of cryptocurrency often has problems such as high price and great power consumption. To provide an easy, simple and efficient solution, Vehicle Mining System...

ChickenFast (CF), a leading cloud-based pool of computer power for cryptocurrency mining, officially announced that it has built end-to-end encrypted crypto mining facilities in Texas, US, and it is planning to build more others in the near future. The mining facilities are one-of-a-kind innovations to address the scarcity of mining facilities for new contracts. Interestingly, the company urged that crypto miners can now go toe-to-toe and perform mining with new mining...

Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego says that bitcoin is the best tool to have if you’re an investor. He took part recently in the Miami Bitcoin Conference and explained that roughly 60 percent of his portfolio is made up of bitcoin, while the rest is composed of hardcore stocks tied to oil, gas, and gold mining companies. Ricardo Salinas Pliego Thinks Bitcoin Is the Best Investment Tool He also went off on bonds, claiming they were a joke and not likely to do...

Mark Cuban is very bullish about Ethereum given that the crypto asset is about to undergo what many analysts and traders are simply referring to as “the merge.” Mark Cuban Is Happy About Ethereum’s New Direction The merge is a planned switch in protocols for the Ethereum network. Up to this point, ETH has largely operated – much like bitcoin – on a proof of work (PoW) module, though it’s now going to be changing to a proof of stake (PoS) module. This will largely reduce...

Das Bitcoin-Netzwerk soll mit Wind- und Solarstrom betrieben werden. Stromintensives Mining und Vorwürfe von Umweltkritikern war gestern – zumindest, wenn es nach den beiden Tech-Grössen Jack Dorsey und Adam Back geht. Die beiden Firmenchefs möchten sich in Texas zusammen tun und eine CO2-emissionsneutrale Bitcoin-Mining-Farm auf die Beine stellen, welche ihren Strom aus einer Solaranlage bezieht. Als Stromspeicher sollen die Megapacks des...

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