Mining

Eco Penguin – a company designed to offset carbon emissions in the crypto industry – is partnering with a non-profit company known as Carbon Offsets to Alleviate Poverty (COTAP). It is the first carbon-offsetting company to accept crypto as a method of payment. Eco Penguin Is Hoping to Limit Carbon Emissions from Crypto The goal is to help all crypto firms accept responsibility for the damage they allegedly cause to the environment. This has been a heavy topic over the...

Der Erfolg des letzten Spiderman-Films wird offenbar gerade von Scammern genutzt. Während der Feiertage ist eine Cryptocoin Malware mit dem Comichelden aufgetaucht. Eine Cybersecurity Firma hat sie inzwischen „Spider-Miner“ Malware getauft. Crypto News: Vorsicht vor Cryptocoin Malware mit Spider Man: No Way Home InhaltenDie Malware scheint vor allem auf Torrent Files zu verlinken. Dort soll eine Kopie des neuen Kinofilms frei zugänglich sein. Der Dateiname deutet auf russischen Ursprung hin,...

Ever since the mid-year substantial sell-off, bitcoin miners’ reserves have been gradually rising, and their total holdings have reached a six-month high. Additionally, on-chain data showed that the reaccumulation levels had reached the September highs, right before BTC started to gain value rapidly. Miners Back to HODLing It was back in June this year when most bitcoin miners disposed of significant portions of their holdings in a relatively short period. This had a...

SPC Miner – a crypto mining rig manufacturer that has its headquarters in the United Kingdom – has announced it’s going to start mining digital currencies in Kazakhstan. As the world’s biggest landlocked country, Kazakhstan offers the company the space and resources it needs to already begin setting up its new S21 mining rigs throughout the nation. Kazakhstan Is the New Go-To Place for Mining Projects Kazakhstan has become something of a central bitcoin mining hub for...

It appears that hackers are finding new avenues to exploit non-suspecting victims and take advantage of their computing power. This time, the primary tool to use are leaks of the new Spide-Man: No Way Home movie. Spider-Man: No Way Home premiered on December 17th, 2021 – merely a week ago, in the US. For the short time being, it has already become the third-most successful movie of the year, according to box office statistics. Data from Box Office Mojo shows that it’s the...

Stronghold Digital Mining purchased over 9000 BTC mining rigs, which will allow it to add roughly 826 petahashes per second (PH/s) to its power generation facilities. The Pennsylvania-based company bought 9080 Bitmain and MicroBT mining rigs, as per an SEC filing on Monday. The announcement is part of Stronghold’s Q3 earnings release on Nov. 30, 2021, which denotes that the company has signed four separate deals for the mining rigs. The first 4,800 mining rigs are expected to...

China made headlines this year when it decided to end all bitcoin and crypto mining projects within its borders. However, while many of the miners in the country decided to leave or call it quits, there are many others that felt they should stick around and carry out their mining projects in secret. They’re now running an underground mining ecosystem, and they’re hoping every day that the authorities don’t find out about what they’re doing. China Has Ended Crypto Mining,...

Bitcoin has come a long way in a relatively short period, but for some, the world’s number one digital currency by market cap has no place in the future of finance. They are convinced the currency will not last much longer. That’s a direct quote from Eswar Prasad, the senior professor of international trade policy at Cornell University. Eswar Prasad Thinks Bitcoin Doesn’t Have Much Going for It Bitcoin first emerged through a whitepaper that was published in the year...

Während sich die Situation in der Türkei zuspitzt, sinkt die BTC Hashrate um etwa ein Fünftel. Damit haben wir eine geopolitische Marktlage, die den Preis anschieben sollte, aber gleichzeitig ein bearishes Signal, welches einen weiteren Kursabfall ankündigt. Bitcoin News: Bitcoin Hashrate sinkt um 20 ProzentDie Lira ist gestern um weitere 8 Prozent abgestürzt – damit hat die türkische Staatswährung in diesem Jahr bereits mehr als 50 Prozent seines Wertes verloren. Das neue Allzeittief der...

The Chamber of Senators of Paraguay passed a bill on Thursday that would regulate and commercialize crypto trading and mining activities in the country. Paraguay’s Senate Approves Crypto Bill Sen. Fernando Silva Facetti, one of three senators sponsoring the legislation, confirmed the approval on Twitter, saying that the bill now awaits deliberations from the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay next year. (1/3) Today, after an intense debate, the Senate @SenadoresPy approved...