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With energy sources getting expensive rapidly, the environmental impact of validating PoW crypto-assets is being studied intensely. The White House’s latest report mentions the excessive usage of energy by several industries, including cryptocurrency mining, was brought up by IOG CEO Charles Hoskinson. He went on to say that the paper, published on the order of President Joe Biden, essentially seeks to ban Bitcoin, which is based on Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism,...

The Toronto-based crypto exchange Coinberry has reportedly lost around $3 million in Bitcoin due to a software glitch in 2020. It was during a software upgrade that erroneously enabled users to purchase BTC with Canadian dollars that had yet to be properly transferred to their accounts. That loss of about 120 Bitcoins was not known until the recent lawsuit filed by the platform in Brampton, Ont., west of Toronto. According to the Finacial Post report, the bug was with the...

In an attempt to fight the galloping inflation, the European Central Bank, similar to its counterparty overseas, raised the key interest rates by 75 basis points. Unlike the Fed’s interest rate hikes, though, this one has had no real impact on BTC’s price, at least for now. With the skyrocketing inflation across the Old Continent, the ECB was a little slow to react at first and failed to follow the Fed’s example for a while. However, the central banking authority changed its...

Dan Morehead – Chief Executive Officer of Pantera Capital – believes the crypto winter will soon come to an end, and bitcoin’s price will head north again. He also argued that the supremacy of the two biggest digital assets by market capitalization – BTC and ETH – has started fading, and people should pay attention to other crypto projects that are “really important.” Bitcoin’s Rally Coming Soon In a recent interview for Bloomberg, the top executive and a keen cryptocurrency...

The Texas-based cryptocurrency mining firm – Core Scientific – produced 1,334 BTC in August and sold 1,125 BTC of that stash for approximately $25.9 million. In June this year, when the crypto market and bitcoin particularly dipped to record lows in years, Core Scientific parted with over 7,000 BTC for around $167 million. One of the leading crypto mining companies announced that August had been a highly successful month for the firm. In the past four weeks, it increased its...

Congressman Brad Sherman, who represents California’s San Fernando Valley in the U.S. Congress, is a keen critic of the cryptocurrency industry. In his view, it undermines the dominance of the American dollar and is a threat to the country’s national security. However, Sherman does not believe the government can prohibit the asset class “anytime soon” since there is too much money and power behind it. Crypto Should Have Been Banned Years ago Unlike some other American...

Jim Crame is back at it again with yet another U-turn in terms of his cryptocurrency stance. He called bitcoin and altcoins speculative assets and warned individuals to refrain from investing in them. In the past few years, Cramer has displayed a somewhat controversial view of the crypto sector. In 2021, he insisted on receiving his salary in bitcoin. Following the major price correction, though, he abandoned those plans, selling almost all of his BTC holdings. “Don’t get...

Brian Brooks – Chief Executive Officer of the crypto infrastructure provider Bitfury – thinks the Federal Reserve’s approach to tackling inflation is one reason for the current downturn. He also criticized the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), claiming that it prefers to sue individuals and companies rather than outline appropriate guidelines beforehand. Inflation has been an issue for numerous countries for a while now. Leading economies like the USA, the UK, and...

Joshua Lim – Head of Derivatives at Genesis Trading – recently provided a breakdown of Bitcoin’s late underperformance against the rest of crypto.  He provided 2 metrics indicating that Bitcoin’s price is “heavy” relative to previous market cycles, followed by qualitative reasons for why this is the case.  Ethereum Outperforming Bitcoin Per a Twitter thread from Lim on Sunday, the first indicator of Bitcoin’s ‘heaviness’ is its performance against Ethereum. The ETH/BTC price...

Eric Wall, a creditor of Mt. Gox, confirmed that new reports swirling that 137,000 BTC sent to creditors would soon be dumped on the market are false. In a recent Twitter thread, Wall said the repayment system is not live yet. While addressing the rumors floating around across social media channels, the former CIO at Oslo-based crypto investment firm Arcane Assets said the payouts will also occur in tranches over months instead of offloading thousands of BTC all at once,...