Starting today, users will be able to transact and trade Chia (XCH), a new cryptocurrency touting itself as an eco-friendly and easy to “farm” digital assets, according to the project’s website.

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China is reportedly paying more attention to the crypto mining sector, amid concerns of its growing carbon footprint.

As a growing number of industries demand access to renewable energy, eco-friendly Bitcoin miners could be muscled out of Iceland, Sweden and Norway.

Mustafa Yilham, VP of global business development at Asian mining and wallet company Bixin, took to Twitter today to explain why Bitcoin’s hash rate—the total computing power of the blockchain—dropped by around 25% last week.

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A Chinese mining group has entered the Bitcoin mining pool in seismic fashion amassing 5.15% of the total Bitcoin (BTC) hash rate in just three weeks.  Called Lubian, the mining company processed its first block on April 24th after it found block #627,441, something picked up on by BlockBeats. Now, according to data from btc.com, […]

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