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Tether Holdings Ltd, the issuer of the largest stablecoin, USDt, reported that its total market capitalization had crossed over $64 billion for the first time in history.The company called the event a "milestone," adding that it is another indication of the cryptocurrency market's "continued trust and confidence" in their stablecoin,
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Even though Bitcoin’s trading volume is still higher than Ether’s, the year-on-year growth for the latter is breaking all records.Ether, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, has hammered Bitcoin in terms of trading volume growth. The new report elaborates on the growth of Ethereum trading in the first six months of the
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Bitcoin miners based in China now control less than 50% of the total BTC hash rate Hash rate originating within China is dropping as the government continues to crack down on Bitcoin mining The United States is the biggest beneficiary of the migration of mining away from China Bitcoin’s hash rate has also
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Bitcoin has been sitting above a critical support zone during the weekend. At the time of writing, BTC trades at $56.662 with sideways movement in the daily chart. In the weekly chart, the first cryptocurrency by market cap has a 12.8% following a $10,000 rally from the higher zone in
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As Bitcoin (BTC) lost the $52,000 support on April 22, the futures contracts funding rate entered negative terrain. This uncommon situation causes the shorts, investors betting on price downside, to pay fees every eight hours.While the rate itself is mildly damaging, this situation creates incentives for arbitrage desks and market
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Bitcoin is a numbers game through and through. There are only 21 million BTC. The code and its consensus algorithm are both made up of complex math. The total coins are slashed in half every four years, and so on and so fourth. Most important of all, here’s the growth rate
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The Bitcoin (BTC) price is not the only metric seeing record numbers as the network hash rate has set a new all-time high.According to data from Blockchain.com, the estimated seven-day average Bitcoin hash rate is now at about 148 exahashes per second, or EH/s. This figure represents the amount of
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Ethereum prices rose Monday as its on-chain fundamentals confirmed supply constraints across all the leading exchanges against rising
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Riot Blockchain, a Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency mining company, has inked another deal with Chinese mining giant Bitmain to buy 15,000 Antminers. According to a Dec. 21 announcement, the Colorado-based firm expects the new purchase will contribute a 65% increase to its total Bitcoin (BTC) mining hash rate.The purchase cost Riot $35
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Bitcoin (BTC) mining continues to ramp up following the successful May 11 halving, but growing industry concentration could undermine the “democratization of hash rate,” according to a panel presentation at this year’s Mining and Investment Summit.Hosted by Matrixport and sponsored by Bitmain, the 2020 Mining and Investment Summit was held virtually
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