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New DeFi futures to enable hedging against Bitcoin mining difficulty

Decentralized derivatives exchange SynFutures announced a new product called Bitcoin (BTC) Hash Rate Futures that uses the biggest cryptocurrency’s ever-changing mining difficulty as a basis to open long or short positions. Touted as fully decentralized hash rate futures, SynFutures’ new offering would let users trade on Bitcoin mining difficulty with wrapped

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Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Sees Largest Percentage Drop in 9 Years

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty just recorded its largest percentage decrease since the advent of ASIC mining machines in late 2012, dropping by just over 16% and giving miners a reason to celebrate as their profitability is set to increase significantly.Difficulty dropped to 16.787 trillion at around 9:00 UTC on Tuesday, its

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