Renewable energy

Bitcoin mining is a “critical tool” for clean energy and balancing the grid, according to a new working paper penned by Bitcoin advocates and the former president of ERCOT, the operator of Texas’ electrical grid. The Nov. 22 paper titled “Leveraging Bitcoin Min ...

A recent study conducted by the United Nations suggests a direct correlation between the price of Bitcoin (BTC) and the energy needed for mining operations.UN scientists evaluated the activities of 76 Bitcoin mining nations during the 2020–2021 period and found that the global Bitcoin mini ...

Crypto Market Turns Green Following Ethereum Futures ETF Approval and Dollar Weakness The cryptocurrency market experienced a positive surge on Friday, with several major cryptocurrencies making notable gains: Bitcoin (BTC): Bitcoin saw a 2.4% increase in the past 24 hours, pushing i ...

Tether Holdings Inc., the company behind the leading stablecoin USDT, announced on March 30 their new enterprise with sustainable Bitcoin mining in Uruguay. Five months later, there was a new update on August 24 on what could be one of these new Bi ...

The Sultanate of Oman has launched a new cryptocurrency mining center, the second mining facility to open in the country in the past 10 months. According to a local publication, the Oman Daily Observer, a data hosting and cryptocurrency mining center, was opened in the Salalah Free Zone, which is ...

This summer, parts of the United States are wilting under a multimonth stretch of sweltering heat, and data suggests that summer temperatures will continue to creep up in the coming years. The planet is on what seems to be a pretty clear path to soon reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming for th ...

Bitcoin (BTC) miners in the United States can breathe a sigh of relief after a proposed tax on crypto mining did not make it into a bill to raise the U.S. debt ceiling that appears set to pass.The Digital Assets Mining Energy (DAME) excise tax proposal sought to charge crypto miners a tax ...

Tether, the largest stabelcoin issuer, announced plans to invest in mining facilities in South American Uruguay. Tether officials have admitted that they plan to provide funding to a local licensed company to create renewable energy sourc ...

Block's CEO became the biggest investor during the investrun of bitcoin startup Azteco. In total, the company managed to raise $6 million. Azteco offers a simplified way to buy bitcoins for people who do not have bank accounts. ...

Earlier this month, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden proposed a 30% tax on miners' income. But according to Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel, such a tax would not work. According to Fred Thiel, introducing such draconian measures would simply force mining com ...

Shares of Soluna, a developer of environmentally friendly bitcoin mining data centers, rose 12% after the firm raised $14 million in funding. The funds will be used to complete the development of the Dorothy 1B project in Texas in a new deal with Navitas Global. The deal ...

This is what the CertiK report Exploits played a special role here Let's explore in detail Analysts at CertiK presented the traditional report on cryptocurrencies. ...

Jack Dorsey's Block Company has completed development of a prototype ASIC chip that should accelerate the market entry of an open-source bitcoin mining rig. The Block team claims the new five-nanometer (5nm) chip will be the key to decentralizing bitcoin mining. It will ...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has acknowledged the positive impact of bitcoin mining on both the economy and the environment. According to their recent video publication, bitcoin mining has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly. The WEF advocates for the shift of mine ...

An innovative farmer from Armagh, Northern Ireland, has found a novel way to utilize excess energy on his farm - by converting cow dung into digital currency. Tom Campbell, the farm owner, employs a technique called anaerobic digestion to break down biodegradable matter, resulting in the producti ...