Kathy Hochul Will Decide Fate of Bitcoin Mining in New York – Decrypt

On Friday, state senators in New York voted to approve a bill that would create a 2-year moratorium on crypto mining operations that use carbon-based power. Greenidge Generation, a coal-powered plant in upstate New York, prompted the debate over crypto’s environmental impact in the state when it pivoted to Bitcoin mining last March. Georgia has […]

Bitcoin Is Unstable And Useless: Here’s Why (BTC-USD) | Seeking Alpha

In reality, Bitcoin has failed to deliver on hardly any of its supposed goals/benefits, faces more competitors than ever, and lacks any intrinsic value to back up its worth. Bitcoin being an untethered, unbacked, digital currency means it is traded as a purely speculative investment vehicle and changes based on sentiment alone rather than any […]

Bitcoin Regains $30K but Cost-Cutting and Layoffs Reverberate Through Crypto

Investing.com – Similar to the risk aversion that plagued it earlier this week, Bitcoin benefited yesterday from a renewed appetite for risky assets, and as a result, managed to regain the key psychological threshold of $30,000 broken the day before. The BTC/USD trend looks fragile and the cryptocurrency could resume its downward path at any […]

Crypto Analyst ‘Wolf of All Streets’: Bitcoin Is ‘Absolutely Going to the Moon’ | Cryptoglobe

“Nation states adopting it as legal tender, people using it as it means of exchange, unbanked and underbanked people every single day. The views and opinions expressed by the author, or any people mentioned in this article, are for informational purposes only, and they do not constitute financial, investment, or other advice. …Read the full […]

McGILLIS: Bitcoin’s energy and environment value – The North State Journal

In order to earn Bitcoin, people use specialized computers to solve complex system-generated math puzzles. Jeremy Hinsdale, writing for Columbia University’s State of the Planet, calls this crypto’s “dirty little secret.” To the environmentalists’ horror, the computers competing to earn Bitcoin and other currencies consume as much electricity as entire countries like Argentina and Thailand. […]

Bitcoin Prices Drop Below $30,000, the Lowest Since December 2020. Here’s Why

After this crash, Bitcoin matched its December 2020 levels, after which it rebounded to just above the $29,000 mark. The rise of inflation, increase in market volatility and uncertainty, and the recent geopolitical tensions have dramatically impacted the price of Bitcoin, even more so than expected. Terra’s native token LUNA, which was trading at $119.18 […]

New York AG Issues Warning About Cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin Struggles to Recover

James has noted that the cryptocurrency market experienced a massive correction last month that affected both well-established cryptocurrencies as well as new projects. Alex Dovbnya is a cryptocurrency expert, trader and journalist with extensive experience of covering everything related to the burgeoning industry — from price analysis to Blockchain disruption. …Read the full story