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2022-02-19 06:01:41 “A thousand times more powerful than competitors”: Intel announced a new chip for mining

The new Intel chip should not only be several orders of magnitude more powerful than its competitors, but also less energy-intensive, the company assures. Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger told Bloomberg that the company plans to release a new GPU for cryptocurrency mining as early as 2022.

The processor is based on the SHA-256 algorithm, and its performance, as the developers expect, will exceed the performance of any current chips by a thousand times.

Explaining the company's desire to release a more powerful chip, Gelsinger said that now one entry in the blockchain consumes as much energy as would be enough to power an entire house during the day. This, the CEO says, is the climate crisis. Open / Comment

2022-02-18 14:00:55 Mastercard will add support for cryptocurrency payments

Payment network partners will soon be able to integrate support for digital assets into their own products
Mastercard payment system announced the integration of cryptocurrency payments. Mastercard partners, including merchants and banks, will soon be able to add support for digital assets to their own products. To do this, the payment network entered into a partnership with the Bakkt cryptocurrency platform. Mastercard customers will be able to buy, sell and store digital assets.

Mastercard also plans to add support for cryptocurrencies to the loyalty program so that payment network partners can reward their customers with digital assets for various achievements. Open / Comment

2022-02-18 10:01:50 The Cardano project team announced that they are doubling the reward for "white hat hackers" for finding vulnerabilities in the wallet and network to ensure the maximum security of the Cardano ecosystem. Open / Comment

2022-02-18 06:00:44 Ethereum news

According to Into The Block, the number of ETH holders has increased significantly: there are now 70.4 million addresses with ether in the account. The average growth rate in 2021 was 1.53 million new addresses per month.

In addition, there are more wallets profiting from their ETH holdings than Bitcoin wallets overall! 52.6 million surplus addresses with ETH versus 39.38 million BTC holders.

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2022-02-17 15:02:14 Venus is preparing to take off?

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2022-02-17 14:00:00 NYSE files trademark application with NFT

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has filed a trademark application for the NFT marketplace and virtual goods.

In April 2021, the platform released an NFT "in honor of the IPO of high-tech American companies." Each token contains Spotify (NYSE:SPOT), Snowflake, Unity, DoorDash (NYSE:DASH), Roblox and Coupang quote metadata and represents the exact moment the company went public.

“Providing a marketplace for downloadable digital goods authenticated with NFT; providing a marketplace of virtual and digital assets, works of art, collections and non-fungible tokens; development and design of virtual retail stores and showrooms,” follows from the application of the exchange.

The Block stressed that the announcement does not necessarily reflect a desire to launch an NFT marketplace. At the same time, it speaks of the site's interest in protecting intellectual property related to areas of interest. Open / Comment

2022-02-17 10:01:54 YouTube is looking for a head of product management

Video hosting YouTube has posted a vacancy for Director of Web 3.0 Product Management. The company is looking for a specialist with 15 years of experience and background in the field of consumer goods on the Internet and cryptography. Open / Comment

2022-02-17 06:00:00 Tom Lee called the driver for the growth of bitcoin to $200,000

Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee, in an interview with CNBC, called $200,000 a target for bitcoin and explained what contributes to its achievement.

According to the analyst, the total net worth of US households exceeds $141 trillion. The Fed's monetary policy means that over the next decade, people are guaranteed to lose money on investing in bonds.

Consequently, Li expects an influx of speculative capital into crypto that could be “huge.”

He also noted that digital money is much easier to manage and move. Another feature is the transparency and traceability of transactions.

In his opinion, the high price of bitcoin is an obstacle to mass adoption of the asset. Therefore, he supported the idea of switching to Satoshi - a millionth of a coin. Open / Comment

2022-02-16 19:01:27 Buy and sell levels according to technical analysis

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2022-02-16 14:01:26 Google has added Cardano to its built-in cryptocurrency exchange rate calculator. Open / Comment