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Markets

Tech Consortium to Spend $1.3B to Build Filecoin Mining Facility in China

Upon its completion, the facility will be the largest filecoin distributed storage infrastructure project in China.

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Markets

Gaming Company The9 to Buy 2,000 Bitcoin Mining Machines for About $6.72M in Stock

The company also completed the signing of definitive agreements for 12,246 units of bitcoin mining machines with a total hashrate of 288PH/S.

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Markets

Riot Blockchain Acquires Whinstone’s Texas Bitcoin Mining Operations

The firm is acquiring the facility with the goal of “increasing the American footprint in the global bitcoin mining landscape.”

Riot Blockchain is acquiring a bitcoin mining center in Texas.

Markets

Miners, Front-Running-as-a-Service Is Theft

There's a simple word for projects that seek to advantage miners while systematically exploiting blockchain users, say three researchers.

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Finance

Chinese Lottery Firm Furthers Crypto Pivot by Buying Bitcoin Miner Maker for $100M

The acquisition of mining equipment maker Bee Computing comes amid the lottery-turned-crypto-mining firm’s shopping spree.

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Markets

Abkhazia Bans Bitcoin Mining Shortly After Legalizing It

The troubled economy and extremely cheap electricity of Abkhazia attracted bitcoin mining, but now the government is cracking down.

Abkhazia is cracking down on crypto mining due to ongoing power shortages.

Finance

The Myths and Realities of 'Green Bitcoin'

Some say institutions are waiting for “green bitcoin” before buying in. Here’s why they may be waiting a long time.

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Markets

UK Tax Authority Updates Treatment of Crypto Assets to Incorporate Staking

This marks the first time that HMRC has released guidance specifically describing how staking is treated for taxation purposes. It has been assumed previously that staking comes under the umbrella of mining, thus the same guidance has applied.

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Videos

Ethereum 2.0 Staking Operation Says It has Produced Revenue from its 200 Nodes

The Ethereum network is transitioning from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. Charles Allen of BTCS, a publicly-traded crypto mining company, gives an update on Ethereum 2.0 and how their proof-of-stake mining operation is going. Plus, is the idea of "clean" bitcoin something to take seriously?

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