1 Gigawatt Bitcoin Mine Under Construction in Texas Would Dwarf Bitmain’s

Featured SpeakerYat SiuCo-Founder and Executive ChairmanAnimoca BrandsWhere is Web3 headed? Take a look to the future with this pioneering investor in the metaverse and NFTs.George Kaloudis is a research analyst and columnist for CoinDesk.Featured SpeakerYat SiuCo-Founder and Executive ChairmanAnimoca BrandsWhere is Web3 headed? Take a look to the future with this pioneering investor in the…

Sep 9, 2020 at 11:41 UTCUpdated Sep 9, 2020 at 12:20 UTC(David Benito/Getty Images)Bitcoin, Mescaline and Parallel WorldsLeah Callon-Butler, a CoinDesk columnist, is the director of Emfarsis, a consulting firm focused on the role of technology in advancing economic development in Asia. Have you ever asked a fellow Bitcoiner about the time they tumbled down…

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming one of the most significant paradigms in the new era of foundation models. By agentic, we refer to AI systems that can not only produce outputs but also execute actions in a given environment. Consider automation scenarios like responding to emails, interacting with a database, calling an API

Jan 7, 2021 at 8:20 p.m. UTCFinland border. (Shutterstock/Underworld)Finland Pushes to Sell Tainted Trove of Bitcoins Worth Tens of MillionsFinland’s customs agency is preparing to cash in on a stash of drug-linked bitcoins that’s now worth tens of millions of dollars. Putting a price on the customs agency’s 1,981 bitcoin appeared foolish at press time…

news MEXICO CITY — If a startup hopes to release a token without embarrassing itself in the early days, there is one important thing it should do: hire a market maker. That was the message from a panel Monday at Stellar’s Meridian conference in Mexico City. “Market makers provide this initial step where you can…

opinion Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to our subscribers. The global economy faces its biggest crisis in 11 years. In theory, this should be…

Dec 2, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. UTCCrypto Buying App Ziglu Bags Largest Raise of 2020 on UK Crowdfunding Site SeedrsU.K.-based cryptocurrency app Ziglu has raised over $8 million in a crowdfunding campaign, the largest equity raise on the Seedrs platform this year.The support from some 1,250 investors brings Ziglu’s total fundraising to $14.8 million. As for…

MicroStrategy is pioneering bitcoin capital markets, the report said.The firm has raised $4 billion of convertible debt to buy bitcoin.No other company has an active bitcoin investing strategy that can attract large amounts of capital, Bernstein said.MicroStrategy (MSTR) is not just a software firm diversifying its corporate treasury into cryptocurrency, it is pioneering bitcoin (BTC)

news Numerai never did a token sale, but people have its token and they are using it. The numeraire (NMR) was launched in June 2017 as an early departure from the initial coin offering (ICO) template. Now, with the final upgrade of the company’s smart contract on ethereum, the maximum supply of tokens will drop from…