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China ist nach eigenen Angaben kurz davor, eine eigene Kryptowährung herauszugeben. Eine Einführung stehe "kurz bevor", sagte der Vizedirektor für den Zahlungsverkehr der chinesischen Notenbank auf einer Konferenz. Foto: Zentrale der PBC in Peking, CC 4.0 by Max12Max, Wikipedia Ändert China die Einschätzung zum Bitcoin? Vor vier Jahren wurde der Handel mit Bitcoins in China...

China has had a very up-and-down relationship with bitcoin. The nation has often been rather harsh with the world’s number one digital currency by market cap, and yet in many ways, it holds a large stake in the digital currency market. Much of the world’s bitcoin mining operations stem from China; it houses the two biggest distributors of mining equipment in both Bitmain and Canaan Creative, and it was once one of the world’s largest purchasers of BTC. China Now Seems to...

Super Talent 2.5in SATA SSD Foto Public Domain via Wikimedia SSDs sollen noch teurer werden. Die hohe Nachfrage zum einen und der Mangel an SSD-Controllern zum anderen dürften bereits im zweiten Quartal des Jahres zu einem Preissprung führen. Ursächlich dafür sind auch chinesische Bitcoin-Miner. Preissteigerungen bei SSDs SSDs sind weltweit im Kommen. Der steigende Bedarf an...

The hype ahead of the launch of the Chia Network is making waves, and it is already starting to affect non-cryptocurrency-related sectors all around the world, especially from southeast Asia. The project, which uses the storage space as a transaction validator, has grown by leaps and bounds and is already causing a shortage of high-performance SSDs and HDDs. Buy All The SSDs! According to a report from the Hong Kong technology news website HKEPC, investors are buying up as...

Despite the massive interest from central banks for CBDCs, nearly 70% of the projects are running only pilot programs and are far away from an actual launch. The Bahamas and Cambodia are the leading countries in a ranking listed by PwC while the biggest economy in Asia – China lines up third. CBDCs Are Not Here Yet Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have been a hot topic in the past few years. A paper released by the Bank of International Settlements last year informed...

Chinese police officers have confiscated nearly $4 million in various cryptocurrencies after a raid against several developers that operated a decentralized gambling app built on the EOS blockchain. $3.8 Million in Crypto Seized After receiving tips of suspected illegal activity involving the developers of the dApp called Biggame, the Jiangsu police department opened an investigation. Ultimately, this led to the arrest of 15 people. During the raid, the authorities found and...

Peter Thiel – a libertarian and the co-founder of PayPal, arguably the largest digital payment platform in the world – has taken some serious guff over the past week thanks to some comments he made about bitcoin and China. Thiel Doesn’t Want China to Use BTC Against America In a recent interview, Thiel commented that the Chinese could potentially weaponize bitcoin and use it against its enemies like the United States. He recommended harder regulation be put in place so...

A new report suggests that bitcoin mining operations are likely to exceed the energy requirements of more than 180 countries by the year 2024. Bitcoin Mining Is Needing Too Much Electricity As of late, bitcoin mining has been taking a lot of guff from environmentalists and people who just are not that crazy about the cryptocurrency world. They claim the process of mining bitcoin leaves a harmful mark on the environment – one that is not likely to disappear anytime soon,...

The popular investor Kevin O’Leary stated he will only buy bitcoin mined sustainably in countries around the globe using clean energy. He distanced himself from the so-called ”blood” coins mined in China, saying he will never purchase such. Bitcoin Mined in China Is a ”Blood” Coin The controversy around the environmental damage that bitcoin mining causes goes on. The chairman of O’Shares – Kevin O’Leary, is the next one to touch on the topic. During a recent CNBC interview,...

As interest in bitcoin has grown over the past few months, so has interest in China’s digital yuan. The Digital Yuan Is Making Headway Bitcoin has been booming over the past six months, with the world’s number one digital currency shooting up from $10,000 in early October to about $59,000 at press time. That is an increase of almost five times the original price. However, the interest in BTC is also stirring interest in other forms of crypto such as the digital yuan....