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While the Ethereum community is getting prepared for The Merge and the protocol’s transition to a full proof-of-stake (PoS) system, the network’s hashrate reached an all-time high (ATH) on April 7, 2022. On Thursday, Ethereum’s hashrate reached a high of 1.131 petahash per second (PH/s), jumping 13% in 89 days. Ethereum’s
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Another aspect of players like Intel coming into the industry, said Lu, is it will make the ASIC manufacturing market more competitive and will incentivize the incumbents to invest additional sums. “I think with Intel's coming in, Canaan and all the other peers in this industry should be well prepared
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On Friday, cryptocurrency storage company Blockstream and Block Inc. (formerly Square) announced the construction of a solar-powered Bitcoin (BTC) mining facility in Texas. As told by Blockstream, the mining site will be outfitted with 3.8 megawatts (MW) of electrical capacity using Tesla's Solar photovoltaic cell array and a 12 MWh
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In an important precedent, a New York State Supreme Court judge in Yates County ruled in favor of cryptocurrency mining firm Greenidge Generation, dismissing a petition filed by a coalition of environmental activists. According to an April 7 press release by Greenidge, Judge Daniel Doyle dismissed a petition against the Greenidge
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It all started with a tweet by Dennis Porter, podcast host and self-described Bitcoin advocate, that led to a heady discussion about renewable energy and the role of Bitcoin miners. Porter asserted that Bitcoin (BTC) creates incentives to build out renewables, but environmental scientist Peter Gleick rebuffed the statement as
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Jamie Redman Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Cryptox.trade News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than
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The leader in news and information on cryptocurrency, digital assets and the future of money, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies
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Unless an entire population decides to stay away from bitcoin, each jurisdiction is incentivized to gain a stake in global hashrate, just as domestic miners vie for local hash power. On Russia’s end, this might be to mine new bitcoin for local wealth generation, secure an avenue for trade and
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“The Intel Blockscale ASIC’s specs only apply to one unit of the silicon itself, rather than potential output of a fully built system,” according to the company’s spokesperson. “Typically, mining systems include hundreds of ASICs enabling a much higher hash rate at the system level,” the spokesperson added. Original Source
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