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Researchers behind the well-known Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI) have officially revised its methodology to enhance the accuracy and reliability of the Index’s estimates for the first time since its inception in 2019.The CBECI was launched in July 2019 in an effort to provide reliable data-driven insights to questions about Bitcoin mining’s energy-intensive nature

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter sold a tokenized representation of his first-ever tweet for more than $2.9 million on Monday. The tweet was published on March 21, 2006, and reads: just setting up my twttr— jack (@jack) March 21, 2006 A two-week bidding war between Bridge Oracle CEO Sina Estavi and tech entrepreneur Justin Sun…

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao criticized venture capital fundraising while speaking at the BlockDown 2020. 1242 Total views 53 Total shares Binance founder and chief executive, Changpeng Zhao, took aim at initial public offerings, or IPOs, and venture capital fundraising while speaking at the recent BlockDown 2020 conference.Despite the recent decline in crypto investment, Changpeng Zhao,…

Chinese supplier MicroBT will be providing the new hardware over the next two years. 1318 Total views 12 Total shares One of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin mining operations in the world, Bitfarms, has undertaken to purchase 48,000 new miners over the next two years.The Canadian mining company has sourced the equipment from Chinese supplier…

A second transaction has been confirmed on the Ethereum blockchain with a $2.6 million gas fee, confusing the crypto community. A second transaction of 350 Ether (ETH) ($86,000 at press time) with an incredible $2.6 million gas fee has just been confirmed on the Ethereum blockchain less than 24 hours after the first transaction for…

NFT marketplace Rarible temporarily cancelled orders from OpenSea and sent a series of tweets today outlining how it plans to help combat what it called “risky sale orders” on OpenSea with a new order management tool.The tool is designed to help users differentiate between their active and inactive orders to help prevent their NFTs from…

Shortly after the Turkish central bank completed the first CBDC tests, Türkiye announced a blockchain-based digital identity application. 79 Total views 1 Total shares Ho-ho-ho! Get Limited Holiday Trait!Collect this article as an NFTTürkiye, formerly known as Turkey, plans to use blockchain technology for online public services logins. e-Devlet, Türkiye’s digital government portal used to…

The former Alameda Research CEO’s lawyers have requested time served, and prosecutors seemed flattering in their sentencing memo, but what will Judge Lewis Kaplan say on Sept. 24?

Polygon claims yet another victory in the scaling wars with Decentraland 1723 Total views 11 Total shares Just a day after two decentralized finance powerhouses announced layer-two integrations via the Polygon sidechain, a major nonfungible token and gaming title has today followed suit.In a blog post this morning, NFT-powered virtual world and video game Decentraland…