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The Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings Inc. and internet corporation GMO Internet Group will mine the number one crypto. To mine Bitcoin, SBI and GMO will rent capacity of the world’s leading mining farm based in Rockdale, Texas. As Bloomberg has reported, the companies have agreed with Whinstone Inc., a subsidiary of Frankfurt-based Northern Bitcoin AG. Neither SBI nor GMO has commented on the announcement yet, but those familiar with the matter said that mining begins ‘within the coming...

Nowadays lots of crypto analysts are looking forward to the halving event, wondering what it means and how the crypto community will respond to the changes. Mr. Ilya Goldberg, executive partner at ECOS believes: the halving event holds a much more positive change for the crypto environment than you may have initially thought.So what exactly is a halving event? In layman’s terms, it is when the reward for mining new Bitcoin blocks is cut in half, and it occurs every 210,000 blocks. If we look...

According to Arianna Simpson, founder and managing partner at ASP, Binance just increased the heat on the staking market. It offers 0% staking fees for the XTZ fans, a week after Coinbase‘s announcement of XTZ support. This is the beginning of a staking war, where centralized players take operational costs on themselves and achieve brand recognition, new clients and centralization of the future market.1/ Coinbase adds automatic staking for XTZ, and less than a month later, Binance introduces...

Yang Zuoxing – founder of the Chinese bitcoin mining manufacturer Micro BT – has been arrested for embezzling as much as 100,000 yuan. This comes out to just over $14,000 in USD.Zuoxing Has Been in Jail for Two MonthsZuoxing is the former director of Bitmain, arguably the largest bitcoin mining company in the world and China’s biggest source of bitcoin-related income. It’s funny that the country – for the longest time – was considering a solid ban on all crypto mining activities due to the...

In what has been seen by many as a travesty of sorts, major cryptocurrency equipment manufacturer Canaan Creative has seen its stock decline sharply in the past 17 out of 21 trading sessions. Sources indicate that Canaan’s stock hasn’t fared well as many would have hoped. Just to remind you, the company at its IPO was valued at $1.3 billion. The company’s stock has lost about 35% of its value this week. Since the late November shares have tumbled indicating that the company wasn’t as valuable...

Beijing-based Bitmain Technologies Ltd. had a pretty rough year. Even though the company is still among the key players in China, its market share by hash rate has fallen from ~70% in June to ~66% now. In June 2017, Bitmain’s own data (via Frost and Sullivan) showed that it had a market share of around 75%.Christopher Bendiksen, head of research at CoinShares and Samuel Gibbons, the research analyst said that Bitmain needs fresh capital in order to fix a series of self-made damages caused by...

China is usually referred to as the headquarters of Bitcoin mining in the world, an interesting feat especially when the government’s strong position against cryptocurrencies is considered. While the government has repeatedly expressed its support for blockchain technology, it has not accorded digital currencies the same level of attention and respect. Regardless of all this, China still controls about 67% of the entire hash rate of the Bitcoin network. The real clincher, however, is that...

Chinese crypto mining giant Bitmain has announced a few changes to its current sales methods that are geared at improving profits for the company but also making things a lot easier for its many customers. Bitmain recently lost some part of its market share as well and has decided to make these moves as a way to rectify its market recession.The announcement was made by Jihan Wu who is now Bitmain’s only chairman and CEO after the unceremonious exit of Micree Zhan recently. Speaking at an...

Many things have been said about the champions who have been at the forefront of making things happen in the crypto space but not much has been known about them. The list below and the descriptions indicate the biggest companies in the industry not only by valuation and capitalization but also by goodwill and corporate presence both online and offline as well. They shall be listed in no particular order of preference. Ripple (Valuation of about $5 Billion)Many people have heard one way or the...

As previously reported by CoinSpeaker, China’s Bitcoin mining giant Canaan Creative conducted its IPO with its shares going public on the Nasdaq platform on Wednesday, November 20.Well, things have certainly not gone the way Canaan thought and it looks like the decision to go public was all done in haste. In its filing to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Canaan marketed its shares for $9 to $11, as per the Bloomberg report.Previously, Canaan planned to raise around...