Tag Archives: Bitcoin Mining

Crypto exchanges FTX and BitMEX pledged to become carbon neutral. They will start the process with considerable donations to balance emissions. The Musk Effect Following the environmental debates which Elon Musk caused with his tweets earlier this week, two of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges announced they would become carbon neutral. The San Fransisco-based trading venue – FTX – revealed its commitment to implement the inovation. In a recent tweet, it reminded that...

The Iranian government enlisted intelligence officers with the task of cracking down on illegal cryptocurrency miners. This unprecedented move aims to solve the nation’s concerns with rising electricity consumption. The Government vs. Illegal Crypto Miners The Iranian authorities seem determined to solve their issues with illicit crypto mining. Bloomberg reported that the Ministry of Intelligence helped set up committees across the Asian country to detect and seize computer...

It goes without saying that Tesla took center stage last week when the company announced it would no longer support bitcoin payments for its electric vehicles. The message seems to have resonated, as Greenidge Generation Bitcoin Mining has vowed to be carbon neutral in 2021 and beyond. Carbon Neutral Bitcoin Mining After announcing plans to expand its Bitcoin mining operations last month, Greenidge is now looking to go entirely carbon neutral this year and in the future. The...

Despite the sudden price correction, bitcoin’s fundamentals continue to reach new highs. The asset’s hash rate has recovered its recent declines and marked a new ATH. Accordingly, the network’s mining difficulty saw its most significant increase in nearly seven years to a new record level as well. Hash Rate and Mining Difficulty to New Records Bitcoin’s hash rate is the measuring unit of the processing power on the asset’s blockchain. The general rule of thumb suggests that...

New York is concerned about bitcoin mining. So much, in fact, that a new Senate bill is looking to shut down all mining operations for approximately three years until the state can assess the damage done to the environment through mining. New York Has Taken a Stance Against BTC Mining While it is easy to point the finger at New York right now and accuse it being closed minded, the fact is that this is something that appears to be worrying the entire world, especially...

Is it possible to go from being a bitcoin lover to a bitcoin hater? For one German software developer, that is exactly what happened. Moritz Schmidt recently donated more than one million euros to Europe’s Green Party in the hope that they will become powerful enough to ban bitcoin and crypto mining in the future. Schmidt Suddenly Doesn’t Care for BTC Schmidt is a confusing figure in the sense that at one point, he made quite a bit of money earning and trading BTC. He...

Ripple co-creator Chris Larsen believes that unless bitcoin changes itself to be more environmentally friendly, all hope for the world’s largest and most popular digital currency is lost. Chris Larsen: BTC Needs to Change Modules Bitcoin has been taking a lot of guff in recent weeks given that its constant price increases have led to boosts in energy usage for crypto miners. The higher the price of bitcoin goes, the more expensive it becomes to mine and extract. Right...

If we thought bitcoin was doing poorly before, we are having to redefine our ideas. It looks like the world’s number one digital currency by market cap has fallen below the $50,000 mark and at the time of writing, is trading for just over $49,000. Bitcoin Is Suffering Harder Than It Has in a While This marks a $5,000 drop for the asset in just the past 24 hours and a fall of more than $15,000 for the currency over the past two weeks. The currency appears to be dipping...

It appears that Jack Dorsey – the man behind Facebook competitor Twitter and payment processor Square – and Elon Musk, the South African entrepreneur responsible for bringing both Tesla and SpaceX to the mix, agree on one thing. That thing is the future and power of bitcoin mining. Bitcoin Mining Is the Center of Many Arguments In a recent tweet, Dorsey commented that bitcoin “incentivizes” renewable energy. From there, he received a response from Musk which simply read...

The great desire for bitcoin mining to run on clean energy has taken an unexpected turn. While many people still demand this for the future, it looks like renewable energy is not as common as it once was. In fact, the Nordic region – which includes countries like Iceland and Norway – has become a staple area for this kind of energy, and yet it appears to be running dry. Bitcoin Mining Needs Clean Energy, but Supplies Seem Limited For the past few months, as bitcoin has...