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Crypto Resilient to Omicron, Japan Speeds Up on CBDC

China's Qihoo 360 builds a crypto mining tracker. Crypto market proving resilient in the face of Omicron concerns. Japan to pick up the pace with CBDC. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

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Bitmain-Backed BitFuFu Abandons Mining Rigs In Kazakhstan Due to Power Rationing

The company has shipped new machines to the U.S. to make up for the lost hashrate.

A bitcoin mining farm. (Marko Ahtisaari/Flickr)

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RIOT Blockchain CEO on the State of Bitcoin Mining

The Bitcoin network’s hashrate is near complete recovery from the levels reached before China’s mining crackdown, rising over 80% in the past five months and close to reaching a new all-time high. RIOT Blockchain CEO Jason Les discusses the “reallocation of hashrate around the world” and the wider state of mining.

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Finance

China’s Qihoo 360 Built Crypto Mining Monitoring Software to Support Crackdown

The cybersecurity company says 109,000 mining IPs were active daily on average in November.

A bitcoin mining farm. (Marko Ahtisaari/Flickr)

Finance

Huobi Group Picks Singapore as Regional Headquarters

The crypto exchange has already moved significant parts of its operations to the city-state.

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Impact of China’s Crypto Crackdown on Global Mining Industry

Peter Wall, CEO of Argo Blockchain, and Tanya Woods, General Counsel Regulatory Affairs EVP at Hut 8, discuss their views on how China’s crypto bans could have affected mining operations in the U.S. and worldwide. Plus, their thoughts on the common argument that the bitcoin mining industry is damaging to the environment.

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Tech

Multiple Mining Pools Are Facing Connectivity Issues

Some of the world’s biggest mining pools are facing severe disruptions.

Chinese Ethereum Mining Pool BeePool to Shut Down Following Crypto Ban

Finance

Huobi Co-Founders Set Up New Chinese Entity

The crypto exchange deregistered a Beijing entity in July, amid a regulatory crackdown on crypto.

Beijing (Zhang Kayiv/Unsplash)

Finance

Chinese Crypto News Site ChainNews Shuts Down

The space for crypto media in China is shrinking.

Beijing (Zhang Kayiv/Unsplash)

Learn

Top Blockchain University: Peking University

Ranked 29th, Peking University has generated initiatives that seek to limit costly spam transactions on blockchain networks.

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