Tagged: bitcoin mining

July 3, 2021 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at NYDIG, a financial services and technology company dedicated to Bitcoin, has taken a look back at the second quarter and the events that “shaped it,” as well as looking forward to key events in the foreseeable future. The report from NYDIG acknowledges… Read More

July 3, 2021 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In his latest update on the cryptocurrency markets, prominent Bitcoin investor Anthony Pompliano, has shared key insights on how China’s BTC mining crackdown has impacted on-chain metrics. Well-known industry analyst Will Clemente has covered this week’s Bitcoin situation by looking carefully at on-chain metrics which… Read More

June 30, 2021 @ 11:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nate Maddrey and the Coin Metrics research team notes in their latest State of the Network report that the cryptocurrency markets plummeted again this last week after more news surfaced about stricter Chinese regulation, including the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) instructing the nation’s financial… Read More

June 30, 2021 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

China’s Bitcoin mining ban has been moving forward in an aggressive manner, which has led to a rapid decline in hashrate or the amount of computing power required to secure the BTC network. The team at BitOoda notes in a blog post, dated June 29,… Read More

June 21, 2021 @ 1:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency mining specialist Zack Voell notes that this month, Bitcoin mempools have been “emptying more frequently than usual” during the last 6 months. According to Voell, this short-term trend of empty mempools follows BTC’s price drop down to around $30,000 through the end of May… Read More

June 21, 2021 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at BitOoda, a global digital asset financial technology and services platform offering risk management solutions, recently noted that the Bitcoin market is continuing its consolidation pattern. As mentioned in an update from BitOoda, $30,000 has “proved to be a support level for now.”… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 1:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nate Maddrey and the other researchers at Coin Metrics have shared their latest State of the Network Report. Published on June 15, 2021, the report from Coin Metrics notes that on June 9, 2021, the El Salvador Congress introduced a bill that officially made Bitcoin… Read More

June 12, 2021 @ 9:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zack Voell, a cryptocurrency mining specialist, writes in a blog post published by Compass that Iran has banned Bitcoin mining for four months in the country’s most recent “legal pivot” away from the “begrudged but enduring segment of miners” operating in the country. Voell points… Read More

May 29, 2021 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at BitOoda, a global digital asset financial technology and services platform offering risk management solutions, “best-execution” brokerage and market analysis, notes that based on questions they’ve been getting from their clients and partners, they’re now sharing their latest analysis of “potential scenarios” resulting… Read More

May 28, 2021 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm OKEx, which claims to be the world’s largest spot and futures trading platform for cryptos, has clarified that China has not actually banned or attempted to ban Bitcoin (BTC) again. While sharing what they know, the OKEx team noted in a blog… Read More

May 26, 2021 @ 11:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nate Maddrey and the Coin Metrics research team notes that during the past two weeks, crypto was hit by a “double tsunami” of seemingly negative news. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that Tesla would no longer be taking Bitcoin payments while adding… Read More

May 25, 2021 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Saylor, Founder at CEO at MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), a business intelligence firm that has invested heavily in Bitcoin (BTC) in order to strengthen its corporate treasury, has revealed that he recently hosted a meeting between Telsa and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and the leading… Read More

May 25, 2021 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As Bitcoin (BTC) has become increasingly popular, questions regarding how it actually works have arisen among investors and the general public. One of the most pressing questions is regarding the potential environmental impact of cryptocurrency mining, which is the process the blockchain or distributed ledger… Read More

May 22, 2021 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at BitOoda, a global digital asset financial technology and services platform offering risk management solutions, “best-execution” brokerage and market analysis, notes that in China, Vice Premier Liu He, in a meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Committee, had stated on Friday (May… Read More

May 18, 2021 @ 11:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at BitOoda, a global digital asset financial technology and services platform offering risk management solutions, “best-execution” brokerage and market analysis, has published their Weekly Hash Report (dated 5/17/2021). As mentioned in BitOoda‘s report, Bitcoin (BTC) “sold off 21% to $46,023 as of 5/16… Read More

May 17, 2021 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zack Voell, a cryptocurrency mining specialist, writes in a blog post published by Compass that block 682,170 was the first “clean” block that was mined by public mining firm Marathon’s new pool. Voell writes in a detailed post from Compass, a “Bitcoin-first” company that aims… Read More

May 11, 2021 @ 8:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at BitOoda, a global digital asset financial technology and services platform offering risk management solutions, best-execution brokerage and market analysis, has released their Weekly Hash Report (dated 5/10/2021). As mentioned in the report from BitOoda, Bitcoin (BTC) surged 3% week on week (WoW), “reaching… Read More

April 27, 2021 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped 4.2% week on week (WoW), but then managed to recover from a dip on April 26, 2021, to ~$47,000 back to $53,450, the BitOoda team noted in their latest market report. Bitcoin is trading at just over $54,500 at the time… Read More

April 18, 2021 @ 5:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockcap Inc., an established Bitcoin mining and blockchain tech firm based in the US, revealed on Friday (April 16, 2021) that it has mined a total of 544 BTC during Q1 2021. As mentioned in a release: “Coming on the heels of several large-scale acquisitions… Read More

March 19, 2021 @ 2:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer at European digital asset manager CoinShares, recently revealed that she’s excited to share that CoinShares Ventures has made a strategic  investment in MintGreen, a CleanTech firm that uses Bitcoin or BTC mining to monetize heat generation. Demirors explains that MintGreen… Read More