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• Bitcoin mining has entered a stage where the margin can reach 80% while the lead-time for new machines takes more than a year.
• That makes it more appealing to maximize the hashrate of existing ASIC miners when the energy cost is relatively less of a concern.
• But maximizing profits comes with potential problems. In this piece, we take a look at various techniques for hashrate boost and what pros and cons should be taken into account.

Grayscale Investments and Bloomberg have launched a multi-crypto, blockchain, and fintech-linked equities index.

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One of the hackers of the Multichain protocol has offered to return 80% of the funds they stole to their victims.

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Bitcoin mining company Griid quietly made a significant disclosure last month: a deal with tech conglomerate Intel to provide it with hardware.

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Last year, cryptocurrency concerns took center stage in an ongoing debate over the US government’s trillion-dollar infrastructure bill. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act proposed a variety of ways to pay for its intended projects, including a heightened focus on crypto tax reporting. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has long teased unified broker reporting for […]

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African gaming platform Carry1st has announced a $20 million Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Avenir and Google.

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iTrustCapital, a platform that allows users to buy crypto through their IRAs, has raised $125 million in a Series A funding round.

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2021 is in the past and in this past year, DeFi gradually became the ‘old story’ in the blockchain world, and concepts such as NFT, GameFi, DAO and metaverse took turns to be the next new trend.

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Crypto.com’s hack may have been twice as large as previously reported, with a further $18.4 million in bitcoin potentially stolen.

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The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is set to strengthen its rules on how high-risk financial products, including crypto, are marketed.

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