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A U.S.-based Bitcoin mining firm, named Cipher Mining Inc., will result from the merger between Bitfury subsidiary Cipher Mining Technologies Inc. and Good Works Acquisition Group, in a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal. The combined company is valued at $2 billion. Plans are in place to list it on the NASDAQ under the ticker […]

A small but significant percentage of the clients of US bank Goldman Sachs say that Bitcoin would cross the six-figure mark in the coming years, the bank said in a report released Thursday. Why Goldman clients like Bitcoin From the 280 respondents of a survey titled “GS Digital Assets Client Survey,” the bank found that […]

Hillary Schieve, Mayor of the city of Reno and Theodore Clapp (creating the “Reno DAO”), announced on the Tezos Commons “Tez Talks” podcast that the Reno DAO will be built on top of Tezos and famous art pieces such as the Burning Man ‘Space Whale’ will be turned into Tezos-based NFTs. There was also the introduction of […]

Billionaire investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban puts his money where his mouth is and invests in Mintable, an NFT platform. The firm tweeted that they were proud to be a Mark Cuban company and also took the opportunity to recruit staff in what is presumably a direct result of Cuban’s investment […]

Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap, lost the $50,000 price level this morning amidst a broader sell-off in both equity and crypto markets. It trades at $48,000 at press time and is down -5% compared to yesterday. But despite the fall, data from on-chain analytics platform Glassnode showed that long-term holders were accumulating […]

A much-awaited fiat-to-crypto onramp has now been launched by Nimiq, an open-source blockchain technology project. The project, founded a little over four years ago, works towards the development of borderless transactions and transfers while making crypto accessible to everyone. ? Introducing Fiat Atomic Swaps ? How To Buy $NIM/$BTC Directly From Your Bank Account ? […]

Parity would work closely with Berkeley’s blockchain community on education and proficiency in blockchain and Substrate. Parity for blockchain inclusion Today, the University of California, Berkeley ‘Blockchain Xcelerator,’ and Parity Technologies announced a collaboration in the development of the University’s blockchain curriculum, they said in a release to CryptoSlate. One of the top schools in […]

Badger DAO is one of the only Bitcoin-focussed DeFi products on the market and is expanding its ambitions. Forwards for Badger Badger DAO, the Bitcoin-focused decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, has diversified a $21 million treasury via its “strategic partners,” the project said this morning. The partners shall help add value to the DAO’s governance along […]

U.K. crypto investors braced themselves for significant changes in the treatment of Capital Gains Tax (CGT). But these fears were ill-founded as Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered his budget just after noon today. The government opted to freeze thresholds for Income Tax, Inheritance Tax, Pensions Allowance, VAT registration, and Capital Gains Tax. While this is welcome […]

Polkadot has been rapidly growing from a niche blockchain project to one of the richest DeFi networks that have real potential to compete with Ethereum. While still in its infancy, the network already has a robust ecosystem of decentralized applications, all of which offer similar, and sometimes even more functionalities than their Ethereum counterparts. We […]