Tagged: renewable energy

November 5, 2023 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA), a firm focused on supporting and securing the Bitcoin ecosystem, has entered into an agreement with Nodal Power, a company that develops and operates renewable energy assets, “specifically in the biogas space, to launch a 280 kW Bitcoin mining pilot… Read More

August 20, 2023 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vertalo, the digital transfer agent that connects and enables digital asset ecosystems, is excited to announce its most recent partnership with Climatize Earth Securities, a mobile app that allows users “to invest in renewable energy projects.” As of today, Climatize has integrated with the Vertalo… Read More

July 9, 2023 @ 2:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ampergia Limited, which aims to enable businesses’ net-zero transitions, has reportedly acquired 58% (£117,100) of its £200,000 fundraising target with 5 days left in the sale (at the time of writing) from 92 investors through its crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Crowdcube. Based in the United… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bluesphere Ventures, a pioneering venture studio specializing in incubating environmental fintech ventures, announced its definitive agreement to acquire Climate Carbon, Canada’s leading broker of carbon and renewable energy credits. This acquisition is expected “to reshape the industry and accelerate the global adoption of sustainable practices.”… Read More

June 6, 2023 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, the company operating the fintech platform tether.to that powers the first and most “widely used” stablecoin in the world, announced it “has participated in the first round of a new billion dollar renewable energy initiative in El Salvador.” Following on its mission to invest… Read More

December 15, 2022 @ 9:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Recently, in Brussels, it was announced that the Government of Viet Nam will pursue an ambitious national effort under a Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) in order to ramp up renewable energy and “accelerate the phasing down of fossil fuels, alongside investment in transition-aligned jobs… Read More

November 18, 2022 @ 5:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arkon Energy, which claims to be a “100% renewable” data center infrastructure company, has announced the completion of a US $28M raise. The Australia-based company has also “completed the acquisition of Hydrokraft AS, a leading renewable energy-based data center in Norway.” The Hydrokraft purchase is… Read More

June 23, 2022 @ 1:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On June 22, 2022, PeerBerry’s business partner, renewable energy company Litelektra, “repaid a EUR 0.7 million loan to investors and paid EUR 35,685 in interest.” Currently, PeerBerry investors can “invest in another Litelektra wind farm project available on the PeerBerry platform with a 10% ROI.”… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 1:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A Lithuanian renewable energy firm Litelektra, which is reportedly co-owned by Gofingo Group shareholders, has teamed up with PeerBerry, which is an alternative investment marketplace with “up to 12% return on investment” and offers innovative investment tools. As mentioned in the update, the new business… Read More

October 13, 2021 @ 10:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Holochain based energy-saving initiative, Internet of Energy Network (IOEN – pronounced ‘ion’) has confirmed its listing on digital asset exchange, Gate.io. The listing will take place “post the dual IDO on TrustSwap and TrustPad on 8th October and 11th October respectively.” Leveraging Holochain tech, IOEN… Read More

June 14, 2021 @ 7:52 am By Priyanka Pani  |  

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), has once again tweeted concerning Bitcoin. Musk said that his company would resume accepting Bitcoins for its electric car transaction only if the cryptocurrency is mined using renewable energy. Musk’s tweet on Sunday, however, failed to lift… 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

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

December 21, 2020 @ 3:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based renewable energy platform Ripple is now nearing £375,000 in funding through its latest equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. The investment round, which was launched last month, was originally seeking £350,000 and has so far attracted more than 780 Seedrs investors.  As previously reported, Ripple was… Read More

November 27, 2020 @ 10:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based renewable energy platform Ripple has made its return to equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs less than six months after raising £331,220 through its recently closed funding round. The company previously raised £859,787 on Seedrs as well.  As previously reported, Ripple was founded in 2017 and its… Read More

September 24, 2020 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Full-time equivalent employee growth in the blockchain and digital asset sector has slowed down following the 2017 cryptocurrency bull market, according to the findings of the 3rd Global Cryptoasset Benchmark Study by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (released in September 2020 by the… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 1:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Renewable energy solution provider Antaco has successfully secured its initial 400,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, which recently launched and has so far attracted more than 300 investors. Founded in 2011, Antaco is on a mission to become the world leader in turning… Read More

September 16, 2020 @ 8:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Ocean Protocol, which allows software engineers to build marketplaces and other apps to privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data, will be creating a “bridge” between the Energy Web Decentralized Operating System (EW-DOS) and Ocean’s data marketplaces. As mentioned in a… Read More

August 24, 2020 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Qatar has been ranked or classified as a high-income economy by the World Bank. Although the Middle Eastern country only has a GDP of around $200 billion (a lot less compared to many trillion-dollar economies), it’s home to just over 2.7 million people so the… Read More

July 3, 2020 @ 1:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Innovation Council (EIC) Prize on Blockchains for Social Good has reportedly awarded €5 million to six winners, who were chosen based on their potential to develop scalable, “deployable” and “high-impact” blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) solutions for addressing societal challenges. As noted… Read More