The top three countries contributing to the Bitcoin hash rate continue to eat away the share of other players, such as Malaysia, Germany and Iran.

According to a study run by Bankless Times, the carbon footprint created by Bitcoin mining globally accounts for 0.19%, which is the same amount the Czech Republic emits as an entire country.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) made a bitcoin purchase during the recent dip, according to new financial disclosures with the US Senate. 

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So as long-time readers of our site know, we’ve been covering mining and mining pools from pretty much the start. While our older mining rig is now retired and is currently pretty much a set of glorified paperweights, things have moved on both in desktop mining and ASIC mining with so many new coins and algorithms out there nowadays. Having bought a new laptop with a good GPU recently, and very aware of what happened the last time, I decided to give GPU mining one more go having heard of Cudo Miner. This is a British piece of software that