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16 Joules per Terahash: Bitmain Unveils High-Efficiency S21 Bitcoin Miners at Hong Kong Summit
22.9.2023
Bitmain, a leading bitcoin mining rig manufacturer, has introduced the newest addition to its Antminer products: the S21 series. The newest models have an efficiency rating under 20 joules per terahash (J/T) and produce between 200 terahash per second (TH/s) and 335 TH/s. Bitmain Launches 2...
‘Soft Landing Is a Primary Objective’ — Federal Reserve Signals One More Rate Hike in 2023
22.9.2023
Based on the U.S. Federal Reserve’s forecasts, it appears that the central bank is poised to enact an additional hike to the federal funds rate by the end of 2023. The news comes in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s decision to leave the interest rate unchanged during its recent...
Cryptopia Rising: Experience a Grand Adventure in a Blockchain Gameverse
22.9.2023
What if everyone could start anew? What if there existed a city where individuals could manifest the lives they have always envisioned? Cryptopia emerges as a play-to-earn and free-to-play blockchain game, meticulously designed to enable inhabitants to construct their ideal existence within a novel...
Binance’s Work Culture Explained
22.9.2023
Game rooms, unlimited food buffets, massage chairs and all those gimmicks were so 2010’s. Sure, it has been fun for a while, but soon enough, we started seeing more and more reports and news articles about how these incentives don’t accomplish their goal. No matter how many fancy perks there...
LBank Launchpad’s Next Big Thing: Is $UMM Your Second Chance after $PINS?
21.9.2023
PRESS RELEASE. LBank is back in the spotlight with its second Launchpad project, MetaExpand, represented by its token, $UMM. The token $UMM will be distributed after the Launchpad ends on the 28th of this month and will be listed on LBank on the 29th. MetaExpand follows the trailblazing success...
Defense Distributed Unveils ‘Gatgpt’ – Championing the Digital Second Amendment and AI Freedom
20.9.2023
As artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) continue to gain prominence, the organization Defense Distributed has unveiled an experimental LLM-based agent named “Gatgpt.” The platform is being referred to as “The Digital Second Amendment,” and...
Metacade Tokens Opened Up to Millions More Investors via Bitget Exchange Listing
20.9.2023
PRESS RELEASE. London, United Kingdom, Date, Chainwire. Metacade, the world’s first community-led gaming platform, has confirmed it will list its token, MCADE, on Bitget on the 20th of September – a strategic move welcomed by investors as it accompanies a number of recent announcements about...
Dex Trade Volumes Plunge 37% Since May; September Volumes Could Be Even Lower
18.9.2023
After capturing $66.5 billion in May, decentralized exchange (dex) trade volumes have fallen for four consecutive months, with August statistics reaching a 2023 low of $41.7 billion. Metrics for the first half of September do not show improvement, with decentralized exchange trade volumes at about...
Free From Coercion and Theft: The Counter-Economic Potential of Cryptocurrencies
18.9.2023
As nations become more authoritarian, the crypto economy and its related technologies stand out as powerful counterpoints to overreaching governance. The following Learning and Insights editorial explores why libertarians, especially agorists, embrace digital currencies such as bitcoin and tools...
Fight for Lost BTC in Garbage Dump Continues for British Man, SBF Possibly Abused in Jail, and More — Bitcoin.com News Week in Review
17.9.2023
Former IT professional James Howells is still struggling to recover 7,500 lost bitcoins from a hard drive in a South Wales landfill, after years of failed negotiations with a local city council. Howells is now preparing to take legal action in order to sift through the waste to find his misplaced...
North Korean Hackers Use Russian-Based Exchanges to Launder Stolen Crypto, Report
17.9.2023
Hacking groups linked to North Korea are increasingly using exchanges in Russia to launder crypto, Chainalysis revealed. The shift in their strategy, registered by the blockchain forensics firm, coincides with a drop in the value of the stolen cryptocurrency this year in comparison with...
Ethereum’s Liquid Staking Platforms See $1B Influx in 20 Days, Nearing 12M ETH Milestone
15.9.2023
Over 20 days, 640,000 ETH valued at just over $1 billion was added to liquid staking derivatives platforms. Additionally, the amount of ether staked in such protocols is approaching 12 million, with 11.97 million total value locked (TVL) as of September 15, 2023. Ethereum Staking Platforms Race...
Paul Krugman: ‘The War on Inflation Is Pretty Much Won’ – Claims ‘Remarkable Disinflation’ Occurred
14.9.2023
On Wednesday, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman provided a brief analysis of the current economic landscape in the United States. Krugman asserted that the nation has experienced “remarkable disinflation.” According to him, the available data paints a compelling picture, suggesting that...
LBank Announces Second Launchpad Project – MetaExpand (UMM)
14.9.2023
PRESS RELEASE. Recently, market sentiment and expectations for the GameFi sector (also known as ‘X to Earn’) have soared again. LBank’s first Launchpad PINS (Chat to Earn) from last month has seen an increase of 1600% even in a bear market. According to the announcement, LBank...
Onecoin Co-founder Karl Sebastian Greenwood Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison
14.9.2023
One of the founders of the crypto pyramid Onecoin, British and Swedish national Karl Greenwood, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in the United States. Greenwood was the architect of the scam’s multi-level marketing structure and served as Onecoin’s global master distributor. Cryptoqueen...
Ethereum Hard Fork Coin ETHW Down More Than 95% Since The Merge
13.9.2023
Nearly a year after Chandler Guo — the instigator of the Ethereum blockchain’s last hard fork — predicted its rise, the native coin of the breakaway Ethereum proof-of-work blockchain has plummeted by more than 95%. Ethereumpow (ETHW) now trades at a price less than 1% of...
Starfield’s Fast Travel Cheapens Space’s Impact
13.9.2023
Starfield is a massive game. With hundreds of planets and solar systems to probe, Bethesda’s spacefaring RPG tasks you with traveling from galaxy to galaxy. Unfortunately, for all the space exploration the game has you doing, doing this by fast traveling amounts to a series of loading screens that...
Bitcoin’s Path to Money: Menger’s Theory and the Debate on Medium of Exchange vs. Store of Value
13.9.2023
Over the past ten years, fervent supporters of digital currency have engaged in intense debates: Is bitcoin (BTC) designed as peer-to-peer electronic cash as illustrated in Satoshi’s groundbreaking white paper, or does it serve as a digital store of value, similar to gold? Additionally,...
21co Unwraps New Suite of Wrapped Cryptocurrencies
12.9.2023
21.co, the parent company of crypto exchange-traded products provider 21shares, has introduced a suite of wrapped tokens pegged to top crypto assets across multiple blockchains. The wrapped tokens are designed to increase liquidity and interoperability between different crypto networks. 21co...
Study: Weekly Digital Asset Investment Outflows Hit $59M; BTC Sees Largest Drop
12.9.2023
In the first week of September, an outflow of $59 million worth of digital assets managed by Digital Asset Funds was recorded, the latest Coinshares data has shown. The latest outflow means the value of digital asset investment products under management has dropped by a total of $294 million...