Author: Crypto Insider

Major blockchain hosting and digital asset mining company Core Scientific is going public through a merger with Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp., valued at around $4.3 billion combined. On Wednesday, Core Scientific Holding Co., one of the largest mining companies in North America, announced its plan to go public on Nasdaq via a special…

Will Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) make Bitcoin obsolete or not? – professor Sean Stein Smith reflects in the Forbes column. Recent comments by the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, highlight the need for more productive conversations around crypto competition. During testimony to both the House and Senate the topic of a central…

Square CEO, Twitter founder, and long-time Bitcoin advocate Jack Dorsey has high hopes cryptocurrency will help bring about world peace. “My hope is that it creates world peace or helps create world peace,” he said during a “The B Word” conference on Wednesday. Tesla CEO Elon Musk and ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood were also…

The U.S. Department of State is first offering to pay a bounty in crypto worth up to $10 million (315 BTC) in exchange for relevant intelligence regarding cyberattacks organized by foreign governments. The Rewards for Justice program operated by the Diplomatic Security Service was announced in a July 15 statement. The payment would be provided…

Californian nuclear energy provider Oklo announced its 20-year partnership with the Bitcoin mining firm Compass. According to a release, the first phase of the partnership will start in the early 2020s providing Compass 150MW of nuclear-generated energy for crypto mining. “Cryptocurrency mining offers promising pathways to accelerate the deployment of clean energy technologies, and Oklo…

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told regulators Monday that the U.S. government must move quickly to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins, a rapidly growing class of digital currencies. The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets expects to deliver regulatory recommendations for stablecoins in the coming months. According to Reuters, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen held a…