Bitcoin Miner Says Solar Energy Cuts Mining Costs By 75%
Market conditions and electricity costs have substantially lowered cryptocurrency mining profitability. As a result, big and small-scale cryptocurrency miners are forced to turn to...
Monero Successfully Upgrades Its Protocol
Monero (XMR), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency launched in 2014, announced that it has successfully performed a protocol upgrade on March 9, 2019. Hard Fork Aims to Improve...
US Regulators Should Give Bitcoin Some Breathing Space
The voices of a growing number of influential politicians and innovators are more loudly proclaiming the importance of preserving the United States’ supposed lead in the...
Antalya Homes Accepts Bitcoin for Property Sales in Turkey
All over the world, the real estate industry is taking note of how profitable it is to sell real estate with Bitcoin. For example, leading Turkish real estate agency Antalya Homes...
No, Facebook’s ‘FaceCoin’ Will Be Nothing Like...
Facebook, Telegram, and Signal are reportedly planning to mint their own digital coins for their platform. But their centralized nature means that they won’t be...
Swiss Bank Julius Baer Launching Crypto Services to Meet...
The Swiss private bank industry is stepping up its efforts to become a formidable world player in the crypto industry. Now, Julius Baer, one of the largest and oldest Swiss private...
Visa, Mastercard Plan To Increase Transaction Fees; Cryptocurrencies...
Visa and Mastercard are planning to increase transaction fees for US merchants who accept card payments, Reuters reports. The hikes, which come into effect in April...
Binance Coin (BNB) Climbs Into Top-Ten, Surpassing Cardano, BSV
As most significant cryptocurrencies decline, he Binance Coin (BNB) has recently strengthened smashing through the $8 USD mark. As a result, BNB now ranks 10th among the largest world...
Indiana, New Hampshire May Be Next to Accept Bitcoin for Taxes
A house bill for amending the currently existing taxation Code of Indiana has been filed January 24 seeking acceptance of cryptocurrencies for paying taxes. Another bill requiring the...
Davos: IMF’s Lagarde Says Fintech Will Shake The System
International Monetary Fund Head, Christine Lagarde, told the World Economic Forum in Davos, “fintech is going to shake the system.” She also urged against relying on...
Venezuela’s New Interim President is Anti-Petro and Pro-Bitcoin
The U.S. now recognizes opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the leader of Venezuela. He took a public oath to swear himself in as the interim president of Venezuela on January 23, 2019...
‘Ethereum 2.0’ PoS Blockchain Aims to Cut Energy Use by...
Ethereum not only hopes to maintain its position as one of the world’s largest cryptocurrencies but also to achieve supremacy by becoming more energy efficient. Ethereum leadership...