The majority of big crypto mining firms have sold their self-mined Bitcoin, while a few firms like Marathon, Hut 8 and Hive still hold on. The price of cryptocurrency mining hardware is likely to continue falling in the near future amid the ongoing crypto winter, according to an executive at major Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool...Continue Reading

Switzerland’s fifth-largest financial institution is set to develop an independent cryptocurrency trading and custody service for its clientele. Switzerland’s Post Office is set to onboard cryptocurrency trading through its banking arm PostFinance as user appetite for custody grows in the country. Some 2.6 million users that currently bank with PostFinance, the fifth largest bank in...Continue Reading

Vitalik Buterin described a critic’s notion as an “unmitigated bare-faced lie,” while sharing his thoughts on PoS voting. While some believe that Ethereum’s upcoming shift to proof-of-stake (PoS) may push the platform to eventually surpass Bitcoin (BTC), others take this opportunity to make snarky remarks on Twitter, triggering a rebuttal from Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of...Continue Reading

The U.S. Patent and Trademark, and Copyright offices will explore the impact of NFTs on intellectual property rights as lawsuits begin to stack up. As nonfungible tokens (NFTs) continue to garner interest, the United States Patent and Trademark Office and U.S. Copyright Office are set to launch a study into their impact on intellectual property...Continue Reading

Dunamu would open offices in major cities and create about 500 new startups focused on NFTs and the Metaverse. Dunamu, a major fintech firm in South Korea that operates crypto exchange Upbit and several other blockchain and securities platforms, is planning to invest 500 billion won ($380 million) to create about 10,000 new Web3 jobs...Continue Reading

Crypto market jitters around inflation expand with Bitcoin and Ethereum dropping to levels not seen since last week. Bitcoin (BTC) carried through threats of new local lows July 12 as the White House warned of “highly elevated” inflation. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView White House warns ahead of “decisive day” Data from Cointelegraph...Continue Reading

An advisory notice from the United States Office of Government Ethics intends to leave the hodlers out of decision-making on crypto. It’s been a century or so since the property qualification came out of vogue, but it doesn’t seem a problem if you want to apply it to crypto and policymaking. An advisory notice released...Continue Reading

Russia’s central bank sees the digital rubble as the only technological payment option to support. In a fresh episode of the longstanding battle between the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) and the country’s Ministry of Finance, representatives of the former have criticized the latter’s idea of supporting the stablecoins, which some private investors have sought to...Continue Reading

Over 800 attendees are set to attend the United Kingdom’s largest international Bitcoin conference in Edinburgh, Scotland on Oct. 21. The bear market won’t scuttle Bitcoin’s (BTC) adoption plans in the United Kingdom. From Oct. 21–22 this year, internationally recognized Bitcoin experts, authors and content creators will take part in the United Kingdom’s largest Bitcoin conference to...Continue Reading

The network downtime affected token transfers and miner rewards, but not devices during the 4-hour outage caused by a failure in the Consensus Group. The Internet of Things (IoT) blockchain Helium shut down for about 4 hours on July 11 due to validator outages from a software update, causing delayed transaction finality. During the outage,...Continue Reading