The Bitcoin network hashrate, a proxy for competition in the industry and mining difficulty, rose slightly in January, Wall Street bank JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report on Monday. The monthly average network hashrate rose 1% to 785 exahashes per second (EH/s), the bank noted, while mining difficulty fell 2% month-on-month. STORY CONTINUES BELOW […]
Bitcoin (BTC) mining company Bitdeer announced today that it had acquired a 101-MW gas-fired power plant near Fox Creek, Alberta, to build a “vertically integrated” BTC mining operation. “We are really excited about planting roots Read More
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) newly-created Crypto Task Force is working to create long-awaited regulatory clarity for the crypto industry, according to a Tuesday statement from Commissioner Hester Peirce. Story continues Read More
The rally in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto from the weekend’s tariff-induced panic has proven to be a short-lived one. Late in the U.S. trading day, bitcoin was down 4.8% over the past 24 hours to $96,900 Read More
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chair Caroline Pham said Tuesday the regulatory agency has reorganized its enforcement division to “refocus” on fraud and “stop regulation by enforcement.” STORY CONTINUES BELOW Don’t Read More
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Acting Chairman Mark Uyeda unveiled a list of the agency’s newly-appointed executive staff on Tuesday, including three members of the Crypto Task Force. STORY CONTINUES Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are forming a joint working group to advance crypto legislation, and David Sacks, the crypto czar appointed by President Donald Trump, said his aim Read More
Taproot Wizards has raised $30 million with which it plans to build an ecosystem of applications using the OP_CAT Bitcoin improvement proposal (BIP). OP_CAT is a feature that Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder Satoshi Nakamoto Read More
Solana-focused Canadian investment company Sol Strategies purchased 40,300 SOL between Jan. 19 and Jan. 31, for approximately $9.9 million at an average price of $246.53 per token. The Toronto-based company, which runs three mainnet Solana validators, said that it now Read More
The artificial intelligence (AI) world was taken by storm a few days ago with the release of DeepSeek-R1, an open-source reasoning model that matches the performance of top foundation models while claiming to have been Read More
