Bitcoin derivatives favor further BTC price rally toward $30K

    Bitcoin’s price might have held near $28,000 but the absence of shorts using margin and futures markers is a bullish indicator. Despite regulatory pressure and worsening macroeconomic conditions, Bitcoin demonstrated bullishness holding near $28,000 for the past week. Furthermore, professional traders have maintained leveraged long positions on margin and in futures markets, indicating strength. On…

    US Bitcoin reaches tentative settlement to reopen Niagara Falls mining facility

    After a lengthy legal tussle, the company will have to pay various fees and fines and take extensive noise control measures. Crypto miner US Bitcoin Corp has come to a tentative agreement with the City of Niagara Falls that will allow it to reopen its mining operation in the city, according to a local news…

    Marathon Digital posts quarterly record of 2,195 Bitcoin mined in Q1

    With a new quarterly production record, Marathon Digital is now on track to meet its mid-year target of 23 exahashes. Bitcoin mining firm Marathon Digital has reported a quarterly record of 2,195 BTC mined over the first quarter of 2023, currently worth around $62 million. Marathon reported in an April 3 update that the 2,195 mined BTC is…

    Jack Dorsey’s Block asks for input on proposed ‘mining development kit’

    Block’s mining hardware product lead, Naoise Irwin, has asked for pointers on a proposed hardware and software development kit for Bitcoin mining. Payments company Block, formerly known as Square, is delving deeper into the crypto mining industry with potential plans to build a “mining development kit.” A Mar. 7 blog post revealed that the Jack Dorsey-founded multinational technology…

    Forget time-consuming DeFi practices — Simple solutions for auto-farming

    DeFi is still in its infancy, yet companies are competing to offer the most convenient and high revenue-generator tools. The latest developments in the space are explored. The world of decentralized finance (DeFi) opened a vast array of new opportunities with its explosion in 2020, but it also brought new challenges and profound risks to crypto users….

    Cryptocurrency miners are leading the next stage of AI

    A globally distributed AI network that relies on mining rigs will be difficult for governments to control, according to Dr. Ben Goertzel. As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly works its complex magic on one sector of the economy after another, there is an increasingly pressing need for compute resources to power all this machine intelligence. Training…