Canaan Creative – the second-largest developer and distributor of bitcoin mining equipment – has filed for a public listing on the Nasdaq. The company is hosting a $400 million initial public offering (IPO) to potentially pay off debts and fund both blockchain artificial intelligence (AI) research.Canaan Creative Is Rushing to the GoalCanaan is among the largest companies developing bitcoin miners, and is second only to Bitmain, which like Canaan, is stationed in China. As it stands, both...
Read More »Canaan: Bitcoin Mining Gigant plant Börsengang
Das Bitcoin-Mining-Unternehmen Canaan aus China will an die US-Börse. Das Unternehmen hat am 28. Oktober einen entsprechenden Antrag bei der US-Börsenaufsicht eingereicht. Am 28. Oktober reichte Canaan einen Antrag bei der US-Börsenaufsicht ein. Der Bitcoin Mining Gigant aus China plant einen Börsengang in den USA. Canaan als erstes BTC-Mining-Unternehmen an der US-Börse...
Read More »Bitmain Files Secret IPO Application with Deutsche Bank as Sponsor
Even though there’s currently no official word from the company, it has been reported that China’s Bitmain Technologies – one of the largest crypto mining manufactures in the world – has secretly made an official application with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to float an initial public offering (IPO). The move is also said to be fully backed by a German multinational financial services company, Deutsche Bank.Because it is supposedly a secret filing, there aren’t...
Read More »Russian Company Strives to Mine 20% of the World’s Bitcoin Supply
Russia has always had great ambitions, and now this vast country is planning to embrace a significant part of the Bitcoin (BTC) mining industry. To deeper penetrate into this activity, Russian Mining Company (RMC) owned by Russian entrepreneur Dmitry Marinichev is planning to build a new facility in the northern province of Karelia.According to the local news outlet RBC, the equipment for mining will be stationed on the Nadvoitsy Aluminium Smelter, a metalworking plant that is not used since...
Read More »Bitmain Co-Founder and Major Shareholder Removed from the Company by CEO
In what sounds like the makings of the plot of a telenovela series, top crypto billionaire and founder of cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain Micree Ketuan Zhan has been forced out of his own company where he holds about 60% control. CEO and fellow co-founder Jihan Wu has terminated all the day-to-day working positions and responsibilities that Micree Zhan had and held within the organization down to the deletion of his e-mail and denial of access to Bitmain’s premises.Bitmain, meanwhile,...
Read More »Rybkin Sentencing: More Proof That Criminals Like BTC
The following is proof that work hours should be devoted to work. Andrei Rybkin, a former Russian nuclear scientist, has been sentenced to three years in prison for mining bitcoin utilizing a plant’s computing power.Rybkin: Heading to JailAside from serving time behind bars, Rybkin will have to pay a fee of more than $3,000 (about 200,000 rubles) to court authorities. Sentenced on Thursday, Rybkin is one of three people that were potentially involved in an illegal mining network that...
Read More »Data Model Predicts Bitcoin Price Will Multiply 7X in Just Seven Months
The price of bitcoin has been heading south over the past three months, but one quant analyst that goes by the name of PlanB on Medium predicts that the flagship cryptocurrency could surge in the coming days. Bitcoin halving will send the price soaring PlanB’s price model is based on the scarcity of the cryptocurrency. The analyst predicts that bitcoin will hit a market capitalization of $1 trillion after the next halving event occurs in May 2020, giving each token a valuation of $55,000....
Read More »Bitcoin Mining Startup Layer1 Raises $50M from Peter Thiel, Shasta Ventures and Others
Layer1, San Francisco-based startup involved in Bitcoin mining, has raised $50 million in an effort to live up its plan to establish farms for mining. The money has been received from such a row of prominent investors including Peter Thiel, an American billionaire and co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund, and Shasta Ventures, an early-stage venture capital investment firm that invests in enterprise and technology consumer startups.According to Alexander Liegl, CEO of...
Read More »Peter Thiel Invests in Layer1; Looks to Boost U.S. BTC Mining Presence
For many people, i.e. Warren Buffett, bitcoin and cryptocurrency are two things that should be avoided at all costs. For others however, like billionaire Peter Thiel, bitcoin’s success is just getting started, and the coin represents a whole new wave of financial innovation that the world hasn’t seen yet.Peter Thiel: The BTC Champion?Thiel is the co-founder of PayPal. His love of crypto is ironic considering he lost former executive David Marcus to Facebook’s blockchain division. Marcus later...
Read More »Kevin Pan: Privacy is Bitcoin’s Biggest Issue Right Now
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that bitcoin and the crypto industry probably need to up the ante on their privacy protocols. While blockchain is typically more secure than other forms of digital finance technology, we are often hearing stories about exchange hacks and malicious actors that seek to get their fingers on digital funds that just don’t belong to them.Bitcoin Privacy Needs to Be UppedKevin Pan, the CEO of Poolin (one of the top three bitcoin mining pools in the...
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