Tag: mining

The Biden administration is reportedly planning a wide range of crypto oversight and might issue an executive order for the agencies regarding it. The Executive order might be aiming to combat the growing threat of ransomware attacks like the Colonial Pipeline incident and other cybercrime associated with crypto-assets. Reuters reported, the US National Security Council…

Cryptocurrency mining and maintaining the work of blockchains in general are associated with high electricity consumption. Often this energy comes from burning fossil fuels, which causes great harm to the environment. There are two ways out of the situation: either using green energy or switching to PoS en masse. Recently, Bloomberg reported that electricity consumption…

Coinbase has informed more than 6,000 customers that they have been hacked. The hackers used an unusual vulnerability in the SMS account recovery process, which gave them access to personal information and wallets. The American crypto exchange already said that all customers affected will have the stolen assets refunded automatically. According to the letter posted…

Kazakhstan, which became a Bitcoin mining hub in the wake of the Chinese crypto miner exodus, might temporarily have to shut Bitcoin mining operations in certain regions, as the country is facing an electricity crunch in South Kazakhstan that intensifies in winter. According to CoinGape, Kazakhstan’s share of the world’s Bitcoin mining rose 6x this…

The Federal Reserve has resorted to flooding the economy with dollars to curb inflation. According to Forbes, the M2 money supply in April 2021 was $20.11 trillion, representing a 30% increase since January 2020. Too many dollars in the system reduces the currency value. In addition, there is pent-up demand — more money going after…

14-year-old Ishaan Thakur and his sister, 9-year-old Aanya, have set up a lucrative mining operation. Starting with a single computer in a room desk, it is now an entire business that has a rented home and air-conditioned data center in Dallas, Texas. Monthly the two siblings earn over $30,000 mining Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The…