Binance – the world’s largest and most powerful digital currency exchange – is pulling back the curtain on a new $500 million crypto mining lending pool so miners and new projects have access to the funds and liquidity they’ll need to extract new units of crypto from the blockchain to be placed in circulation. Binance Is Trying to Help Crypto Miners Known as the “Binance Pool,” those taking part in the project and borrowing funds will have access to loans with terms...
Read More »New EU Program Seeks to Make Crypto Mining More Energy Efficient
The European Union (EU) is working on a new program that will label the type of energy utilized for bitcoin mining projects. The program is set to determine the level of efficiency behind the module utilized by a specific project. In other words, we’ll know if it is proof of work (PoW), proof of stake (PoS), or something else entirely. Crypto Mining Will Be Labeled in the EU The goal is to ensure that electricity is not wasted and put to the best use possible. This has...
Read More »Bitcoin Mining Firms Are Finding New Ways to Stay Afloat
Bitcoin mining firms have had to do a lot to show that they are not just about extracting units from the blockchain to be added to circulation. There is a reason for this: in showing they’re not just about bitcoin mining, they have hopes of staying in business. Bitcoin Mining Companies Need New Ways to Garner Funds One of the big things bitcoin mining companies need to do now is show that they can make it in other arenas. This is because the bitcoin mining space is...
Read More »Elizabeth Warren Attacks Texas’ Crypto Mining Industry
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has never been a fan of crypto. In fact, she seems to use all her off time to go after digital assets and those who use them. This time, however, she’s setting her sights on Texas, which she says needs to be investigated for becoming one of the most unregulated crypto havens in America. Elizabeth Warren Has Angry Eyes for Texas In Texas, crypto mining has become a big deal over the past year or so. Following news that Beijing in...
Read More »Crypto Enterprise Copper Technologies Begins Operating in Switzerland
Copper Technologies – a crypto firm that employs former United Kingdom Chancellor Philip Hammond as its adviser – has encountered some difficulties whilst trying to operate in its home country. As a result, the company has withdrawn its application to expand in the UK. Copper Technologies Is Leaving the UK Copper had trouble when gaining approval from the financial regulator, which as we all know by now, is not particularly keen on crypto. The agency – known as the...
Read More »Bitcoin Mining Software Gets a Serious Upgrade
Software utilized in bitcoin mining projects is about to get its first major upgrade in roughly ten years, and financial companies – including Block (formerly known as Square) are looking to take advantage. Bitcoin Mining Needs to Undergo Some Changes One of the big issues surrounding bitcoin mining is that it operates on a proof of work (PoW) protocol, which many environmentalists think could lead the planet into a dark corner. Proof of work allegedly requires more...
Read More »Crypto Mining Firm Argo Blockchain Garners Nearly $30 Million
Argo Blockchain – a top crypto mining firm in London – has raised more than $27 million. The company garnered the funds after agreeing to sell about 87 million stock shares to a single investor. Argo Blockchain Makes a Lot of Cash The move is interesting, to say the least. During a time when most crypto mining companies aren’t doing so well – with the price of bitcoin falling so drastically, for example, it’s been said that the costs of mining crypto outdo the rewards...
Read More »Texas Is Still a Major Crypto Mining Hub
Over the past year or so, the state of Texas has become one of the go-to regions for people looking to either establish new crypto mining projects or continue what they’ve already started. Several months later, it doesn’t look like that trend is ending anytime soon. Texas Is Still a Mining Powerhouse Things began in the summer of 2021 after China announced it was going to end all crypto mining projects and dub them illegal. The news was shocking given the country hosted...
Read More »Crypto Mining Firm Compute North Goes Bankrupt
It’s happened again, folks. In the age of crypto bankruptcy and companies falling apart amidst the growing bear market, another digital currency firm has entered legal bankruptcy protections as a means of getting creditors and angry customers off its back. This time, the enterprise in question is Compute North, a digital currency mining firm. Compute North Is Having a Hard Time This is the first time that a crypto mining company has entered bankruptcy proceedings, which...
Read More »Report: BTC Mining Is Using Less Energy
There’s some good news about bitcoin mining in the sense that recent reports suggest the process is utilizing far less energy than it has in the past. However, it appears the numbers have only gone down somewhat, and the world of crypto mining is still wreaking havoc on energy supplies everywhere. Mining Is Coming to a Standstill It has widely been reported that bitcoin and crypto mining uses more energy than some developing nations, and the incoming reports still...
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