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The cost of mining one Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen to 10-month lows as mining hardware becomes more efficient, and difficulty has dropped 6.7% since its May peak. It could help to reverse the falling profitability trend while lowering power demands on the network. JPMorgan strategists led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, in a note to clients seen…

Alpha in DeFi is about to get a lot scarcer, although still super attractive. Luckily, risk management will eventually get much simpler, suggests Jesus Rodriguez, the CEO of IntoTheBlock, in an article on CoinDesk. Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been one of the areas of crypto most affected during the recent market downturn. From the collapse…

Bitcoin is more likely to plummet to $10,000 than soar again above $30,000 following the recent downturn in the market, said the results of a survey published on July 11. According to the latest MLIV Pulse survey, Bitcoin is more likely to tumble to $10,000 than it is to rally back to $30,000, said 60%…

What is going to be most interesting here is seeing what happens to bitcoin and other cryptos during these Hard Times — writes George Kaloudis on CoinDesk. The last time I wrote about a stablecoin, it failed spectacularly. So when a colleague of mine suggested I write about MakerDAO’s proposal to invest in US Treasurys…

There are a lot of crypto jobs, but do you need to be “crypto-native” to qualify? Here’s how to land a job in crypto – writes Ekin Genç on CoinDesk. Crypto is a fast-growing and diverse industry, home to a broad array of organizations, from traditionally structured companies running services like centralized exchanges to decentralized…

European authorities have reached a milestone deal to regulate the trading of crypto assets in the bloc, to rein in what lawmakers call the “wild west” of financial markets. These standards are designed to protect consumers and increase transparency from companies. EU member states and the European Parliament on July 1 settled the terms of…