At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference 2022, Intel revealed its second-generation BTC mining setup. The Bonanza Mine (BMZ2) is an ultra-low-voltage energy efficient Bitcoin ASIC miner that can mine at speed up to 40 TH/s. The first generation used 300 BMZ1 chips to deliver 40TH/s using 3,600 watts. The new generation chip will be able […]
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Same old story – it’s getting boring! The SEC announced it is delaying its decision on 3 Bitcoin ETFs, and published the following dates. The VanEck ETF decision will be made on October 18, 2019, the Bitwise ETF listing on NYSE Arca will be decided on October 13, 2019, and the decision on Wilshire Phoenix’s […]
On February 20, the SEC filed a notice of consideration for the Chicago Board Options Exchange application for the SEC to list a Bitcoin ETF. The SEC now has 45 days, to a maximum of 90 days to make a decision about whether or not to allow the ETF to launch. “Within 45 days of […]
Back in 2018, some people were having issues withdrawing money from QuadrigaCX, a large Canadian crypto exchange. It kept coming back from QuadrigaCX that banks were freezing funds, and they were just having problems in general trying to move large amounts of money around in Canada without regulatory approval. Back in December 8th, the founder […]
Adena Friedman is president and CEO of Nasdaq, Inc. On January 22, she is headed to the World Economic Forum in Davos. Ahead of that, on January 20, she posted on LinkedIn that Nasdaq believes cryptocurrency will have a role in the future. the invention itself a tremendous demonstration of genius and creativity CEO of […]
Nasdaq, the world’s second largest stock exchange, has confirmed its plans to launch Bitcoin futures in the first half of 2019. Nasdaq’s vice president of media team, Joseph Christinat, clarified that the launch does still depend on approval from the United States CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission). He went on to say that there’s been […]
Blockchain Wallet (Blockchain.com) is giving away $125 million worth of Stellar XLM tokens – and we’re not sure why. Their site says something about wanting to expand the cryptocurrency universe, and in order to do that, more people need to own cryptocurrencies. It would seem to me like this is some marketing ploy – where […]
People building their own Cryptocurrency GPU mining rigs have been eagerly awaiting the next generation of video cards that would allow them to mine more, faster. Disappointingly, at Computex last week, NVidia’s CEO Jensen Huang announced that the 1100 series video cards won’t be available for a long time. The 10-series cards were announced in […]
Simply put, a 51% attack is when malicious actors take over more than 50% of the hashing power of a coin. This allows them to write and verify things to the blockchain that aren’t legitimate. In order to increase the speed at which exchanges allow funds to move in and out, many have been slowly […]