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Charles Hoskinson calls Ethereum Classic ‘dead project with no purpose’

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Posted on September 6, 2022

Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson said Ethereum Classic (ETC) is a “dead project with no purpose or compelling argument to exist outside of spite.” I love how a sustainable development fund turns into a miner tax. ETC still gives me sadness for what could have been. It’s a dead project with no purpose or real compelling

Crypto Legal Expert Says XRP Settlement Between SEC and Ripple Could Be Imminent

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Posted on September 5, 2022

A legal expert who is closely following the U.S. Securities and Exchange’s (SEC) crypto case against Ripple says the window for a potential settlement has arrived. Attorney Jeremy Hogan, an XRP proponent and US legal counsel, says the SEC’s allegations that Ripple sold XRP as an unregistered security could be resolved as early as this

Bitcoin mining hash rate spikes 60% despite plummeting revenue per terra hash

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Posted on September 5, 2022

The Bitcoin mining hash rate spiked as high as 298.5134 EH/s on September 4, marking a +60% spike in 24 hours. Founder of fintech research firm Quantum Economics, Mati Greenspan, commented that the surging hash rate posted a new all-time high for the leading cryptocurrency. Huge spike in bitcoin’s hashrate this weekend. New record high

Top Crypto Strategist Predicts September Rallies for Cardano, XRP and Three Additional Altcoins

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Posted on September 5, 2022

A popular crypto analyst believes that September will be a good month for a handful of altcoins including Cardano (ADA) and XRP. Michaël van de Poppe tells his 624,800 Twitter followers that the much-anticipated update for Cardano could be the catalyst that propels ADA to a level not seen since February this year. “Cardano has

Saylor gets sued, FBI warns about DeFi exploits, and Crypto.com drops $495M sponsorship: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 28

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Posted on September 3, 2022

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week DC Attorney General sues Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy for

Big questions about how laws and taxes apply to NFTs and the metaverse

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Posted on September 2, 2022

NFTs can now serve as court documents… but they might also be unregistered securities, illegal loot boxes, or come with impossible tax demands. Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) are thought of by most people as just funny pictures that degens on the internet spend far too much money on for poorly understood reasons. But Jason Corbett, managing

Sneaky fake Google Translate app installs crypto miner on 112,000 PCs

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Posted on August 31, 2022

Crypto mining malware has been sneakily invading hundreds of thousands of computers around the world since 2019, often masquerading as legitimate programs, such as Google Translate, new research has found. In an Aug. 29 report by Check Point Research (CPR), a research team for American-Israeli cybersecurity provider, Check Point Software Technologies, the malware has been

Bitcoin mining difficulty rises by over 9%, highest since January

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Posted on August 31, 2022

Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty has spiked by 9.26% to 30.98 trillion at block height 751968, the highest since January 2022, according to Glassnode data. Source; Glassnode The metric suggests more miners are joining the network despite the relatively poor performance of the asset in August. Bitcoin mining difficulty is a metric used to measure how

Study shows 62% of Bitcoin network is zero-emission

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Posted on August 30, 2022

A recent study from Bitcoin research company Batcoinz revealed that the Bitcoin network’s zero-emission impact has increased by 41% since last March and reached up to 62%, while the usage of carbon-negative sources creates a -4.2% impact on the Bitcoin network’s carbon emission. The term carbon-positive indicates that an energy source releases carbon while providing

Largest Ethereum mining pool opens up staking ahead of the Merge

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Posted on August 30, 2022

Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining pool in the world, has announced the launch of a staking service on its platform. In an announcement published earlier today, the company said that Ethermine Staking will enable users to earn interest on their ETH as if they were staking it, without having to put down the 32 ETH

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