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Bitcoin Network’s Mining Difficulty Rises to All-Time High, Making Block Discovery More Challenging – Mining Bitcoin News

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty printed a record increase on Jan. 15, 2023, rising 10.26% to 37.73 trillion at block height 772,128. The network’s difficulty is now at an all-time high. This means, on average, it takes 37.73 trillion hashes, or attempts, to find a valid bitcoin block reward and add it

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Challenging Year for Bitcoin Miners as Fewer BTC Mining Rigs Are Profitable at Current Prices – Bitcoin News

Bitcoin miners have had a challenging year as the network’s mining difficulty reached an all-time high and the spot market price of bitcoin dropped below the cost of production. Currently, with electricity costs at $0.07 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), only 18 application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) bitcoin mining rigs are able to

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Argentine Crypto Exchange Lemon Sheds Roughly 100 Jobs, Citing Challenging Industry Conditions

Lemon had planned to deploy almost the entire amount on its expansion in Brazil. Given the current context, its move into the South American country will be “more strategic and niche,” Cavazzoli said. The exchange put plans to expand into Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay by the end of

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Valkyrie Funds to Offer Crypto SMAs, Challenging Ark and Franklin Templeton

The market has not previously seen crypto SMA because crypto remains “a fairly new asset class," with only a few firms building traditional products with crypto exposure, Key explained. There is a growing section of crypto-curious traditional investors, who are hesitant to make direct investments, which means there is a

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Fintech Startup TrueLayer Trimming 10% of Staff, Citing Challenging Market Conditions

"You may understandably ask what has changed in the past twelve months," TrueLayer CEO Francesco Simoneschi said in the blog post. "We are now operating in a very different context and more challenging market conditions. TrueLayer, while being in a position of strength, is not immune to these broader factors." Source

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Bitcoin Mining Hardware Firm Canaan Sees ‘Prolonged Headwinds’ After Challenging Quarter

"Looking forward to the coming quarters, we see a tougher market environment from the lower bitcoin price level, overall increased energy price, and various pandemic and geopolitical uncertainties globally, which may all jeopardize the demand and price for our products," CFO James Jin Cheng said. Source

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