The Energy Secretary of Argentina eliminated power subsidies for cryptocurrency miners, raising the cost of energy to almost 4x what the miners were paying before. The measure affects customers of the wholesale power market in the Tierra del Fuego province, one of the provinces more notably occupied by miners in the country due to its […]

QR codes are all the rage and scammers have taken notice. Look out for dangers lurking behind those little black-and-white squares.

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The Central Bank of Ecuador is planning to issue cryptocurrency-specific regulations later this year. According to statements from Guillermo Avellan, the Central Bank of Ecuador manager, this will bring more clarity to the cryptocurrency industry in the country and contribute to preventing crimes such as money laundering. More and more central banks and financial regulators […]

Deconstructing the layers of Bitcoin’s architecture shows that it already has the structure to replace our fiat system.

There is an interesting human trait that causes people to grasp and believe any argument, no matter how asinine, when it criticises something they do not like. It is an odd bit of human nature that we see in everything that is tribal that causes a division in people, whether religion or politics or video […]

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One of the worst hacks against the Solana blockchain happened on Wednesday when a hacker managed to transfer 80,000 ether (ETH), over $214 million at the moment of writing, out of the Solana system and into the Ethereum blockchain through the Wormhole bridge – a service providing the ability to transfer funds between the different […]

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Silvergate Capital, an investment firm that is the parent company of the Silvergate Bank, acquired the technology and assets of Diem, the formerly Facebook-backed stablecoin payment system. The payment totaled $182 million. The technology and assets acquired will reportedly be used for the launch of a Silvergate branded stablecoin. Silvergate Purchases Diem Operations Silvergate Capital, […]

Digital transformation focuses where it’s high value, but most of banking happens by human intervention.

Latest Version of Panzura Global File System Delivers Hyper-Converged Cloud Data Access With Flawless Data Availability, New Mixed Mode, and Support for Microsoft Hyper-V

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Bitcoin (BTC) may have fallen short of the $40,000 mark, but this week’s advances have aided in the formation of a more meaningful breakout for underlying price strength. Over the previous day, the worldwide crypto market cap increased by more than 1%. Many people are thinking that another ‘crypto winter’ is on the way due …

Governor Abbott thought an influx of Bitcoin miners would bring Texas better energy infrastructure, but locals are still nervous about power.

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