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2022-02-14 12:47:53 U.S. is now the ‘Bitcoin mining capital of the world:’ GEM Mining CEO

GEM Mining CEO John Warren believes that the U.S. has been able to fill the vacuum left by the Chinese pullout of the crypto space.
“What you've seen over the past years with China shutting down, Kazakhstan shutting down, [is that] North America — and specifically the United States — has really become the Bitcoin mining capital of the world. Open / Comment

2022-02-14 10:31:52 Ethereum whales buy $20 million in Shiba Inu, anticipating a bullish breakout

Ethereum holders have accumulated $20 million worth of Shiba Inu through the recent bloodbath.

Based on data from WhaleStats, Ethereum's large wallet investors, whales, have added $20 million worth of Shiba Inu to their portfolio. Open / Comment

2022-02-13 21:46:01 The gold-backed token market has increased by 360% since the beginning of 2021. Open / Comment

2022-02-13 19:12:00 The Norwegian Bitcoin Mine That Uses Green Energy And Dries Wood As A By-Product

"If you look at the total energy cost, globally, for any given thing, it's always going to be huge - I think we can always compare to that of a small European country. That includes also traditional gold mining, which takes more than four times the amount of energy as bitcoin mining."

Bitcoin mining is the factor that's going to make green energy producers profitable.Even though their operation “accounts for just under 1% of the computing and process power in the global bitcoin network,“ Kryptovault is still huge. Open / Comment

2022-02-13 16:31:50 Coinbase Trading Vulnerability Exposed by Repeat White-Hat Hacker

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was notified of a vulnerability in its trading systems on Friday afternoon by the pseudonymous white hat hacker "Tree of Alpha," and temporarily suspended trading on its new Advanced Trading platform.

After the initial tweet sparked alarm in the crypto community, Tree of Alpha posted a follow-on Tweet saying, "No actual Coinbase storages are impacted.".Within two hours of the Tree of Alpha's initial tweet, the Coinbase Support Twitter account announced that, due to technical reasons, Coinbase was disabling trading on its new Advanced Trading platform. Open / Comment

2022-02-13 13:31:19 Netflix is making a documentary on Bitfinex hack involving 120,000 bitcoin

In the most significant criminal crypto crime case in history, Netflix plans to release a documentary series about a married couple’s alleged attempt to launder billions of dollars in stolen bitcoin. Open / Comment

2022-02-13 11:19:21 BREAKING: Crypto Punk #5822 has been purchased for 8,000 ETH ($23,702,160 USD)

The seller held it for 4 years, 7 months, and 3 days.

Paid: 0.08 ETH ($19) on 07/09/17
Sold: 8,000 ETH ($23,431,981) on 02/12/22

Ξ profit: +7,999.92 #ETH Open / Comment

2022-02-12 21:14:01 irst Japanese Anime NFT Otaku Klub To Launch On The Metaverse

Otaku Klub NFT, the world’s first-ever Japanese anime NFT project featuring a crypto-game and “mangaverse” intended for Otaku and all NFT collectors, is launching in the second quarter of 2022.

According to its official site a presale will take place 24 hours before the general sale. Members of the community will have access to 250 spots in the whitelist. Otaku is a term borrowed directly from Japanese, and it is typically used in English to refer to someone with obsessive hobby-related interests, most notably in the fields of anime and manga. Open / Comment

2022-02-12 20:13:56 Crypto Lender BlockFi to Pay $100 Million In Settlement with SEC, States

BlockFi Inc. is poised to pay $100 million to settle allegations from the Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators that it illegally offered a product that pays customers high interest rates to lend out their digital tokens, according to people familiar with the matter. Open / Comment

2022-02-12 19:14:01 Ethereum Will Probably Never Be Much Faster, According to Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin has stated the opinion that Ethereum would never be significantly quicker than it is presently, which may irritate some Ethereum supporters.

Despite planned updates, Vitalik Buterin believes the Ethereum blockchain will not get significantly quicker. According to Buterin, the version of Proof-of-Stake Ethereum that will be used requires blocks to have around 9,100 signatures per slot to be included, allowing for a "Quite high degree of confirmation after even one slot. Open / Comment