Key takeaways Building a Bitcoin mining rig in 2024 requires a significant upfront investment and ongoing electricity costs. Joining a mining pool can help offset costs and provide stabler monthly returns compared to solo mining. The type of cryptocurrency you choose to mine will determine your hardware and software requirements, with Bitcoin requiring ASICs, while…

Growing confidence in Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency market has led most institutional investors to plan increased long-term allocations in crypto. In its annual Future Finance survey, Swiss crypto bank Sygnum found a higher appetite for crypto assets among institutional investors. The survey report, released on Nov. 14 and shared with Cointelegraph, highlighted shifting interests…

The ongoing legal battles between crypto firms and the United States securities regulator will likely fade away with Donald Trump reelected as the 47th president of the United States, Consensys CEO Joe Lubin said. “So my guess is, in a way that is not embarrassing, they figure out ways to get the cases dismissed or…

United States President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new government agency, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), aimed at reducing federal spending and cutting regulations. The new organization will “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump stated. “This will send shockwaves…

Mike Novogratz, the founder of crypto investment and research firm Galaxy Digital, believes there is a “Low probability” that President-Elect Trump will establish a Bitcoin strategic reserve during his term. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, the Galaxy Digital CEO explained that he expects a clash between the different branches of government to obstruct the…

With Donald Trump’s reelection and a Republican majority in the Senate, crypto firms are ready to advocate for a “fresh perspective” on federal agencies. Ripple, one of the crypto companies engaged in battle courts with United States regulators, expects the new White House administration to remove digital assets’ policy from the courts, hoping for changes…

Hyperbridge, a long-awaited protocol for crosschain applications, launches its mainnet on Polkadot. Contrary to traditional finance, blockchain space is ripe with networks that can’t communicate with each other on their own. The lack of native interoperability between blockchains has long been an obstacle that prevents asset and data transfer across chains. Interoperability is key to crafting a…

DeFi Technologies, a cryptocurrency investing platform, has created a new company called SolFi designed to be a “Microstrategy for Solana”, according to a Nov. 12 announcement. SolFi is a spin-off of DeFi Technologies focused entirely on “providing investors with direct exposure to the Solana blockchain ecosystem through proprietary trading, validator node operations, and ecosystem investments,” DeFi Technologies said….

PayPal’s United States dollar-pegged stablecoin, PayPal USD has integrated with the cross-blockchain bridging protocol LayerZero to enable transfers between Ethereum and Solana. In a Nov. 12 statement, LayerZero said that PYUSD now uses its Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) Standard to enable the crosschain transfers, which will “enable users who self-custody their tokens to seamlessly transfer assets…

ARK Invest founder and CEO Cathie Wood expects that a “changing of the guard” at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission may turbocharge the economy and bring about an influx of innovation and investment in emerging technologies. “Deregulation, defanging the SEC, FTC, and others, government spending cuts, tax cuts, and a focus on technologically…