Bitcoin miners may gain $13.9B yearly from 20% shift to AI and HPC: VanEck

Without a doubt, 2021 has been a momentous year for nonfungible tokens (NFT). The nascent market has seen unprecedented growth as sales volume from January to date nears $10 billion — a 14,500% surge from 2020. The NFT marketplace OpenSea is responsible for processing a great chunk of that. OpenSea controls a majority of NFT sales…

Real-world adoption and a growing DeFi ecosystem help lift the price of WAVES to a new all-time high. 1126 Total views 17 Total shares Real-world adoption and the ability to service the needs of a wide range of industries are key qualities to have for blockchain projects that seek long-term viability in an increasingly crowded…

People interact with open-source applications like MetaMask, Web3 games, the metaverse and DeFi protocols every day but don’t often stop to think about what happens in the background for it all to work. If we think of Web3 as a burgeoning new city, node infrastructure providers are the underlying power grid that makes operations possible.All…

Iranian authorities are planning to authorize cryptocurrency mining, as the governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) declared, news agency PressTV reported on July 10.CBI governor Abdol Hemmati reportedly claimed that the Iranian government has approved some parts of an executive law that would authorize mining of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) in Iran.…

Some blockchain and cryptocurrency firms have pledged to help victims of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance pledged to donate 10 million Chinese yuan ($1.44 million) to the effort.In a tweet on Jan. 25, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said that Binance made the pledge but did not make any announcements after a Twitter…

High or low, Bitcoin is still being shaken out of small investors and flowing to "millionaire" wallets, data confirms this week. 4263 Total views 21 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) is changing hands fast after its drop to $32,000 and only millionaires are winning, data shows.Statistics governing wallet balances from Glassnode on Jan. 11 reveal that…

This is the first of a three-part series based on Gary Gensler's extensive prior public statements on crypto. Links to parts 2 and 3 will appear here as they are published. As the heir-apparent to the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler’s most critical role in the future of crypto will be his…

The Ethereum community is anxiously awaiting the mainnet launch of EIP-1559. 273 Total views 2 Total shares Ethereum’s forthcoming London upgrade, containing the highly-anticipated Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559, has been deployed on the Ropsten testnet.Following the June 24 launch on Ropsten, London is now expected to progress through Ethereum’s Goerli, Rinkeby, and Kovan testnets…