Bitcoin's Mining Difficulty Hits New High; Taproot Begins Its Second Signaling Attempt
Bitcoin's price may be taking a dip, but its mining difficulty has never been higher.
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Since at least late 2020 users from the U.S. and around the globe have had their accounts frozen for unconventional reasons.
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DOGE Imitators Help Send Ethereum Transaction Fees to All-Time Highs
As SHIB and others doggedly chase DOGE's success, Ethereum transaction fees are running away with them.
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Canadian Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Approved for Nasdaq Global Market Listing
Bitfarms, a Canadian bitcoin miner, has been approved to list its common stock on the Nasdaq Global Market.
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Marathon Miners Have Started Censoring Bitcoin Transactions; Here's What That Means
Despite Marathon's efforts, transactions from a dark web market still made it into the block.
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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Sees Largest Downward Adjustment of the Year
This is only the second downward adjustment of 2021, and it marks Bitcoin's largest difficulty correction since the 16% downturn on Nov. 3.
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Bitcoin Taproot Activation Has Begun; Miners Now Have 3 Months to Get on Board
The upgrade has been years in the making. It's time to see if the deliberation has paid off.
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Binance Chain DeFi Exchange Uranium Finance Loses $50M in Exploit
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Apr 28, 2021 at 4:27 p.m. UTC
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Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific Inks Deal With Bitmain for 112K Antminers
The deal brings Core Scientific's ASIC fleet to just over 188,000.
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Apr 28, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. UTC
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Bitcoin Hashrate Rebounds as Xinjiang Miners Come Back Online
The outages took place shortly before mining operations usually move from the coal-rich Xinjiang region to the rain-rich region of Sichuan.
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Apr 27, 2021 at 3:50 p.m. UTC
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