Bitcoin miners as energy buyers, explained

Anyone following crypto news has undoubtedly seen numerous articles that forecast Bitcoin’s (BTC) valuation following the upcoming halving slated to take place in May of this year. And although the price of Bitcoin is clearly important to the industry and investors at large, planning for the halving is particularly critical to cryptocurrency miners.Once the halving…

January 16, 2020 — As a company, Cointelegraph cares about the environment and the world in which we all live. The wildfire crisis in Australia has mobilized us as an organization to take action to help the current recovery efforts down under.Cointelegraph is pleased to announce a partnership with ecological preservation organization Oxygen Seven. We…

Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB) shares his views on stablecoins, the future of crypto assets, and possible digital form of the Euro.Monitoring developments in cryptoOn Sept. 27, in a letter addressed to European parliament member Eva Kaili, ECB president Mario Draghi noted that the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) is…

HT price makes further gains as Huobi Global opens SEAN spot trading, but the rally might be short-lived as technicals flip bearish. 173 Total views 23 Total shares Huobi Token (HT) has been up 12% in the last 24 hours and is one of the few cryptocurrencies bucking the general downtrend.Trading at over $7, HT's…

The CFTC warned of another cycle of enforcement actions against crypto firms as investor interest rises.

From CryptoKitties to Compound, decentralized applications and decentralized finance have become increasingly popular in the blockchain space, but the sector has gone through a fair share of teething problems since DApps first appeared in 2017.DApps were popularized around the same time that Bitcoin (BTC) experienced a monumental surge in value toward the end of 2017.…

Chinese online retail giant Alibaba has applied for a United States patent entitled “Domain Name Management Scheme for Cross-Chain Interactions in Blockchain Systems.” Alibaba filed its latest application on Aug. 15 in a continuation of an application filed in November 2018. According to the filing, Alibaba intends to patent a system that uses what they call…

Yesterday was another abysmal day for the S&P 500 and Dow as both markets dropped 5.18% and 6.30%, nearly erasing the entirety of the gains each market accrued since Donald Trump took office on January, 19, 2017. To date, the unrelenting downturn in equities markets continues even as the Trump Administration attempts to calm the public…

The South Korean yield platform said it has filed a criminal complaint against B&S Holdings and plans to initiate civil proceedings as well. B&S Holdings, formerly known as Aventus, a consignment operator, has been alleged by South Korean yield platform Haru Invest of submitting fraudulent management reports containing “false information” and deceiving the company and…