Swedish Regulators Call for EU Ban on Crypto Mining, Power Company Defends Industry …

The Swedish officials believe this would encourage a move towards a more energy-efficient extraction of bitcoin while supporting the transition towards climate neutrality in Sweden and Europe. The rising value of crypto assets attracts more businesses to join the competition to solve the encryption puzzle at the core of cryptocurrency mining while the proof-of-work method […]

US Treasury Sanctions 2nd Cryptocurrency Exchange, DOJ Seizes $6.1 Million – Bitcoin News

The Treasury explained: “All property and interests in property of the designated targets that are subject to U.S. The $6.1 million in funds seized are traceable to alleged ransom payments received by Polyanin, the Justice Department said. Neither the company nor the author is responsible, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or […]

Bitfarms Reveals Argentina Mega-Mining Farm Location Details – Bitcoin News

The company says that the Bitcoin mega mining farm, whose construction started last month, will be built in the province of Cordoba, in association with a private power plant. Bitfarms has revealed details about the construction of its bitcoin mega-mining farm in Argentina, which, when finished, will be the largest mining complex in the country. […]

Square Unveils Plans to Help Bitcoin Become the Native Currency for the Internet – Bitcoin News

Square Inc. We’re exploring bitcoin mining, a consumer device to mine bitcoin at home or in a business or seller businesses, in fact. Dorsey also talked about a new business unit, TBD. Neither the company nor the author is responsible, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by […]

A New Semiconductor Manufacturing Competitor Has Entered the ASIC Bitcoin Mining Rig …

While companies like Microbt, Bitmain, Innosilicon, Strongu, Ebang, and Canaan have ruled the roost in terms of manufacturing application-specific integrated circuit bitcoin miners, a new challenger has entered the competition. 2021 has seen record sales, in terms of ASIC mining rigs sold by bitcoin mining rig manufacturers like Microbt, Bitmain, and Canaan. The demand for […]

JPMorgan Doubles Down on Bitcoin Price Prediction of $146K

Panigirtzoglou expects bitcoin’s competition with gold to continue, especially as more millennials invest, given their preference for cryptocurrencies. Nonetheless, the bank noted that bitcoin’s volatility is falling and that a price of $73,000 looks reasonable as the price target for 2022. This is not the first time JPMorgan has predicted that the price of bitcoin […]

Decentralized Indexing Provider Aleph.im Launches Serum Markets Analytics – Defi Bitcoin News

In the last three months, SOL has gained a massive 542% and the market cap has entered the top ten crypto markets by capitalization. Analytical data tied to cryptocurrencies has been a hot commodity in 2021 and many firms providing these statistics have raised millions of dollars. Neither the company nor the author is responsible, […]

Metaverse Tokens See Triple-Digit 7 Day Gains, Crypto Market Cap Inches Toward $3 Trillion

Crypto assets like loopring, crypto.com coin, and arweave have spiked in value more than 66% and up to 169% this week as well. While binance coin, solana, and polkadot saw double-digit spikes this week, sandbox, decentraland, and loopring prices soared this week. SAND is ranked number 78 out of the crypto economy’s 10,390 coins as […]

Mobius Capital Founder Says Crypto Is Not an Investment but ‘a Means to Speculate and Have Fun’

Renowned investors Paul Tudor Jones and Stan Druckenmiller, for example, have said that bitcoin is a great hedge against inflation. Others who have recommended bitcoin as an investment include Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki who predicted last week that the U.S. “Of course the big worry is interest rates, if the banks decide […]

Silk Road 2 Admin Forfeits $667000 in Bitcoin to British Law Enforcement – Bitcoin News

In April 2019, Bitcoin.com News reported on Thomas White, the lead administrator of the now-defunct Silk Road 2 darknet marketplace DNM was the original Silk Road’s successor, after the first Silk Road administrator was taken into custody. Reportedly, SR2 did not have any official affiliations with the original Silk Road market, but appeared online approximately […]

Spending a String of 20,000 BTC — 2 Bitcoin Whale Transactions Move Over $1.2 Billion …

On November 1, at block height 707,639, a blockchain parser caught two bitcoin whale transfers that moved approximately 19,876 bitcoin worth $1.2 billion in the mix of 2,819 transactions. Every single time the whale spent the decade-old bitcoin that sat idle the whole time, the entity spent exactly 20 block rewards or 1,000 BTC. The […]

‘Bitcoin Is Worth Zero’ — Kenyan Communication Strategist Warns African Investors to Be Wary

In an op-ed published by The Elephant, Ciugu insists bitcoin is structurally incapable of delivering on its promise of becoming an alternative store of value or a hedge against inflation. To further support this point, Ciugu makes reference to the U.S. Meanwhile, the strategist denies that bitcoin is now being used extensively in El Salvador, […]

Venezuelan Authorities Seize More Than 100 Miners From Clandestine Bitcoin Mining …

According to reports, the mining farm was operating illegally without permits that the national cryptocurrency watchdog, Sunacrip, requires for these operations. Authorities seized over a hundred miners that were operating illegally in a clandestine farm located in a residential zone in Miranda, a central state in Venezuela. Mining cryptocurrencies is a completely legal operation in […]

Elon Musk’s Warning About Government Spending and Unrealized Gains Tax … – Bitcoin News

He also warned against the proposal to tax unrealized capital gains, aimed at billionaires, which was scuttled Friday amid questions about whether it would even be constitutional. Musk believes that if the proposal were to go ahead, the government would not stop at billionaires. national debt is currently about $28.9 trillion or $229K per taxpayer, […]

Rich Dad Poor Dad’s Robert Kiyosaki Warns US Sliding Into Depression After Giant Crash …

is “sliding into depression.” He said that a giant crash is coming, after which “a new depression” will follow. More than 32 million copies of the book have been sold in over 51 languages across more than 109 countries. A number of people have voiced similar concerns about inflation. “If you look at what they’re […]

Mark Cuban and Voyager CEO Advise How to Get Into Crypto, Offer Tips for New Investors …

Shark Tank star and the owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, and the CEO of crypto trading platform Voyager have given some advice to people thinking of starting to invest in cryptocurrencies. You don’t have to spend a lot of money in order to learn. Cuban concurred, cautioning: “You’re spending your money, […]