Riot Platforms’ Bitcoin holdings cross 10K BTC, production drops

As the Fair Data Society puts it, we are laborers in the data economy. Our personal data — basically, the digital blueprint of our lives — gets collected by platforms we interact with, most often in a non-transparent way. At best, it is used to improve our user experience. At worst, our privacy gets breached,…

Bitcoin (BTC) is beginning a new week grinding back to $60,000 as the shock of a weekend price crash settles.After dropping to as low as $52,000 in a snap sell-off event, Bitcoin has spent the past two days slowly recovering its losses. What’s next?Cointelegraph presents five factors to consider as a new trading week gets…

Bitcoin (BTC) is up about 71% in Q1 2023, which is the first positive quarter after four consecutive quarters of negative returns in 2023, according to data from Coinglass. This shows that the sentiment has turned positive and the bulls are trying to put a bottom in Bitcoin.When the undercurrent is bullish, negative news results…

There’s widespread public confusion around much of what the crypto industry does and is hoping to achieve, but it’s likely there’s no facet of the space that has attracted as much negative attention as nonfungible tokens. From environmental concerns about the tokens’ carbon footprint to the “you don’t really own anything” disdain of so-called “right…

FTX debtors are in talks with finserv firm Perella Weinberg Partners for various sale or reorganization attempts. However, the engagement of PWP is subject to the bankruptcy court's approval. 346 Total views 6 Total shares As part of the recent bankruptcy filing, the defunct crypto exchange FTX, along with 101 of the 130 affiliated companies,…

SOL price rallied 5% today, but on-chain data raises doubts about whether Solana can overcome the barrier at $190.

Waves (WAVES) lost around half its value in April so far and risks further correction due to weakening technical and fundamental factors.WAVES price risks another 30% decline WAVES dropped from nearly $64 on March 31 to around $27.50 on April 7 — down by over 55%. As it fell, the WAVES/USD pair also broke below a…

Bitcoin’s hash rate hits new all-time highs as Jack Dorsey tweets that Block is “officially building an open Bitcoin mining system.” 1485 Total views 30 Total shares Bitcoin’s hash rate has returned to all-time highs despite losing a key hash rate contributor. Meanwhile, amid lackluster price action, Block CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed the creation of an open…

The new USDS stablecoin from Maker, now Sky, has a freeze function which the project's founder claims won't be part of the token at launch.