Bitfinex

Bitfinex is one of the best bitcoin exchange options and claims it offers the most liquid exchange in the world. Bitfinex is consistently in the top 10 cryptocurrency exchanges for daily market volumes. Note: Please scroll down to the News section of this Bitfinex review – there is currently a subpoena order from the United […]

Intel shares details on Bitcoin mining chip

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 […]

Intel announces support of blockchain tech

On February 11, Intel’s senior vice president, Raja M. Koduri, announced that Intel is “declaring our intent to contribute to the development of blockchain technologies.” It’s exciting, and yet completely confusing at the same time. More specifically, Intel has a “roadmap of energy-efficient accelerators.” They want to promote and engage an open and secure blockchain […]

KPMG in Canada adds crypto to treasury

In a news release on Febraury 7, KPMG in Canada announced it has completed an allocation of bitcoin and ethereum to its corporate treasury. In addition to the cryptoassets, the top accounting firm also allocated carbon offsets to maintain a net-zero carbon transaction. “Cryptoassets are a maturing asset class,” says Benjie Thomas, Canadian Managing Partner, […]

SEC postpones decision on Bitcoin ETFs… again

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 […]

Even Teeka Tiwari thinks the QuadrigaCX fiasco smells fishy

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 […]

Nasdaq CEO says crypto could still become a global currency of the future

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 […]

NVidia CEO says next gen video card is long ways off

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 […]

A trend in Bitcoin pricing…. from 8 years back

In one of the newsletter’s I subscribe to, I recently got an email pointing out the price of Bitcoin in the month of March – going all the way back to 2010. Check it out: March 2010: $0.003 March 2011: $1 March 2012: $5 March 2013: $80 March 2014: $600 March 2015: $250 March 2016: […]

Ethereum Asic Miner released by Bitmain, but is it an ASIC?

On April 3, 2017, Bitmain sent an email out to all past clients with the subject of “Order the Antminer E3, an Ethash ASIC miner” Specs for the ethereum miner are listed as 180 MH/s with a power usage of 800 watts. The first batch is available to order right now, and all orders will […]