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Major players in the Bitcoin (BTC) mining industry have their sights set on nuclear energy as pressure mounts to go green. Nuclear energy could present a tremendous opportunity to introduce enormous amounts of clean, carbon-free energy to the base load, said GRIID vice president Harry Sudok at the Bitcoin & Beyond Virtual Summit on Nov. 10. GRIDD is an American…
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has warned that crypto assets are providing another means of payment for people who want to conduct criminal activity. Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey Sees Crypto Helping Criminal Activities The governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, said during an online question-and-answer session organized by the British central bank that the rise…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offloaded more than one billion dollars worth of shares according to recent financial filings. Filings submitted on Nov. 11 to the Securities and Exchange Commission confirm the sale of more than 934,000 Tesla shares worth around $1.1 billion. Musk sold the shares at an average price of around $1,170, locking in almost 180% in gains…
Amid an ongoing lawsuit with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over XRP, Ripple is launching a new product, Liquidity Hub, which aims to be “a one-stop shop for enterprises to source any tokenized asset.” The product “will allow customers to seamlessly access crypto assets from a variety of global venues, including market makers, exchanges, OTC desks and in…
Since its launch on Oct. 19 Proshares Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) has been a popular choice with traders, rising to the top 2% of all ETFs in terms of total trading volume. Bloombergs Senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas noted on Nov. 11 that the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) had $400 million worth of shares traded yesterday, with its…
The launch of ETH2 staking service Rocket Pool saw it hit its stage two cap in just 45 seconds according to the co-founder of hosting partner Allnodes Konstantin Boyko-Romanovsky. In its first two days of operations, Rocket Pool has registered 237 node operators across 42 global locations, with 1088 ETH staked. According to an announcement the platform now has Total…
In brief Terra voted to burn a sizable percentage of tokens. The price nearly reached a record high on Wednesday, before dropping. Nothing gets demand up quite like decreasing supply. At least, that’s what’s supposed to happen. Just ask Terra, the community charged with maintaining the LUNA utility token protocol and terraUSD stablecoin developed by Terraform Labs. On Tuesday, the…
Australian banks have been dressing up anti-competitive behavior as regulatory compliance when de-banking crypto customers, Senator Andrew Bragg said. I believe many banks have been dressing up de-banking as a regulatory necessity. In fact it is often anti-competitive behavior and far more sinister and threatening than it appears on the surface, the Liberal Senator for New South Wales said in…
The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1109: “A neural network is developing between Lightning Nodes.” Sign up for the newsletter here. Above is a visualization of the current Lightning Network topography made up of ~16,000 Lightning Nodes with ~140,000 payment channels opened between them. I don’t know if I’m simply being duped by some visualization magic,…
