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Cheap hydroelectricity and frigid year-round temperatures have made the Siberian city of Bratsk home to several Bitcoin mining farms. By repurposing abandoned Soviet munitions factories the region could soon become a new hub for Bitcoin mining, moving hash power away from the now-dominant Chinese mining sector. Bitcoin mining farms migrate to the Far East Bitcoin’s […]

Venture capitalist Fred Wilson once believed that Ethereum would surpass the market capitalization of Bitcoin. Yet, persistent scaling problems are causing former advocates to revise their opinions. Investors seem to agree, with ETH trading at historic lows against BTC. “Hard to build on” Fred Wilson, co-founder and managing partner at Union Square Ventures, used to […]

We interviewed Gabriel Anderson, the Managing Director of Tachyon, an accelerator for startups utilizing blockchain and web 3.0 technologies, funded by ConsenSys. Tachyon is a 12-week program that helps founders rapidly validate and grow their businesses. Prior to that, Anderson held various roles as founder/co-founder of several real estate tech and fintech startups, lead growth for VaynerRSE […]

A Bitcoin developer has built a stateless, QR-air-gapped Bitcoin hardware wallet that allows users to send, receive, and hold their Bitcoin funds. The DIY device costs around $110 to make and was created in order to promote learning about Bitcoin, its security and self-custody. Creating a Bitcoin hardware wallet from scratch Keeping cryptocurrencies in cold […]

Once one of the most influential organizations in crypto, the Bitcoin Foundation is now a husk of its former self. Here’s how the once all-encompassing organization fell from grace. From the ruins of Mt. Gox, an equally controversial organization is born Envisioned as a transparent organization whose aim was to fight for the Bitcoin cause, […]

Blockchain.com, a London-based firm, is raising $50 million to invest in a range of startups and cryptocurrencies, according to a report by Yahoo Finance. The crypto wallet and data provider is aiming to raise $50 million. The efforts will be directed by a founding partner of Blockchain.com Ventures Sam Harrison. According to Harrison’s LinkedIn profile, […]

Bitcoin is 255 days away from its block rewards halving, which will decrease the BTC miners receive per block. Based on historical data, the coin experienced high levels of price volatility before and after the event, making it a good time for traders. But how will long term investors fare? The Bitcoin halving The halving […]

Binance’s newly launched testnet futures platform contained a word-for-word copy of BitMEX’s terms and conditions. BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes ‘jokingly’ pointed out the similarities between the documents and Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao owned the mistake, saying the plagiarism would be promptly fixed. BitMEX takes a sarcastic jab at Binance for plagiarizing documentation One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges […]

Coming in the lead-up to the September 23rd launch of Bakkt’s BTC futures contract, Bitcoin’s explosive Labor Day rally seems to have revived sentiment amongst the bulls. A number of factors suggest the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization could make lower lows before making its much-awaited parabolic advance, however. Monday’s rally, delineated below in red […]

With Bitcoin’s volatility being heavily discussed in the media, a crypto analyst pointed out that the chance of losing money on a Bitcoin investment was so slim, it could almost be considered an anomaly. He calculated that if you’ve bought Bitcoin on any random day in its history, there was a 97.5 percent chance that […]