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According to the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), the U.S. has become the world’s leader in bitcoin mining following China’s renewed crypto industry crackdown, accounting for 35.4% of the global hashrate as of the end of August, more than doubling from 16.8% at the end of April.

13 de out. de 2021

New data on bitcoin mining profitability reveals the Antminer S9 and S19 mining machines have been following the price of bitcoin up in recent weeks. Arcane Research said the increasing bitcoin price coupled with a stagnating hashrate, or blockchain computational power, has made 2021 a lucrative year for bitcoin miners. "All About Bitcoin" host Christine Lee breaks down the Chart of the Day.

13 de out. de 2021

Coinbase announces NFT platform. Binance launches US$1 billion growth fund. Stablecoins are under greater scrutiny. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

13 de out. de 2021

Payments company Stripe, whose API supports millions of digital storefronts, has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. In an industry first, Stripe supported bitcoin in 2014 but abandoned the service four years later.

13 de out. de 2021

Stronghold Digital, a bitcoin mining firm that converts coal waste into power for its operations, plans to raise $94 million and $106 million in an IPO. According to a filing with the SEC, it plans to sell about 5.9 million shares at $16-$18 per share for acquisitions of mining rigs and power-generating assets.

13 de out. de 2021

Boardroom, a sports media company created by NBA star Kevin Durant and his investment firm Thirty Five Ventures, has agreed to a two-year partnership with Dapper Labs to help create original NBA Top Shot Moments and video content. This comes as JAMBB raised $3.5 million to build a comedian-focused NFT marketplace on the Flow blockchain. "The Hash" group discusses NFT video moments as the latest emerging trend to watch.

13 de out. de 2021

Venture capital (VC) firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is reportedly planning to meet with leaders in Washington over the regulation of the next generation of the internet, commonly known as Web 3. "The Hash" panel discusses the possible outcome for Web 3 technologies and regulations, the role of VCs in policymaking at Capitol Hill, and the wider U.S. crypto regulatory landscape.

13 de out. de 2021

Strips Finance has raised $8.5 million to launch a new derivatives platform in November that will initially enable interest rate swaps (IRSs) via automated market makers (AMMs), the decentralized exchanges over which much of DeFi is transacted. CEO Ming Wu shares insights into the launch as part of the latest effort to overcome the ecosystem-wide reluctance in DeFi to embrace more complex financial instruments.

13 de out. de 2021

Bitcoin is up 25% this month despite the overnight pullback Wednesday. Trading data from institutional market-making firm B2C2 suggests retail traders are not behind this latest surge. B2C2 Co-CEO Rob Catalanello discusses the key findings, sharing insights into global institutional and retail inflows and outflows.

13 de out. de 2021

A survey from the Financial Stability Board, a G20 entity that provides recommendations for the global financial system, found stablecoins are currently not being used at a significant scale for mainstream payments. CoinDesk's Nikhilesh De discusses what the data reveals about stablecoins at large amid a global call for stricter crypto regulation.

13 de out. de 2021