Bitcoin mining is viewed at BitFarms in Saint Hyacinthe, Quebe LARS HAGBERG/AFP via Getty Images China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency mining gave miners outside the region tremendous opportunities for growth. Second-quarter earnings reveal that non-Chinese mining firms crushed revenues and produced more bitcoin during the quarter. The CEO of one firm said his market share grew in the quarter as a direct result of the China crypto mining ban. Sign up here for our daily newsletter, 10… Source link

Bitcoin and Ethereum spurred a cascading effect in the broader market as the coins stood above $48K and at $3238.42, respectively.  Polkadot rose by 4.7% and prepared to test the $26.74 resistance mark, while Litecoin also flashed bullishness as it inched closer to its immediate price ceiling of $180.87.  Ethereum (ETC) ETH/USD, TradingView Ethereum recovered its recent losses by 3.9%, over the last 24 hours and prices stood at $3238.42. After observing a positive price reversal, ETH… Source link

On a fifteen year-scale Fidelity expects Bitcoin can touch $100 million based on the stock-to-flow model. While several retail analysts have been giving some crazy target for Bitcoin (BTC), this time investment giant Fidelity has made some mind-blowing predictions. In its recently held “very special” webinar, the Boston-based investment giant has turned ultra-bullish for Bitcoin. The analyst at Fidelity took a deep dive into Bitcoin discussing its possible effect on the market. Fidelity… Source link

A flaw in the most popular software used to verify transactions on the Ethereum network nearly triggered a crisis for the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency blockchain. About half of the Ethereum ecosystem split into a separate chain after a bug in the Go Ethereum, or Geth, software effected users who hadn’t implemented an update meant to fix the mistake, said Maddie Kennedy, a spokesperson at the cryptocurrency research firm,… Source link

Bitcoin (BTC) held $49,000 on Aug. 28 after the United States Federal Reserve sparked a run-up toward critical resistance. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView All eyes on $49,300 on the weekly chart Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD cooling at higher levels after cracking the $49,000 mark late Friday. The end of the working week had seen a positive reaction to comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell on tapering of asset purchases, as well… Source link

The world’s second-largest cryptocurrency network, in terms of market capitalization, Ethereum, saw a chain split today as a software bug affected a large quantity of full node clients. In mid-August, developers discovered a vulnerability and distributed an update called “Hades Gamma” to resolve the problem. However, a large number of full node clients did not leverage the patch and the network forked. Old Geth Clients Forgot to Upgrade, Ethereum Network Splits in Two A number… Source link

The rise of decentralized finance and nonfungible tokens has transformed the blockchain ecosystem and generated near unimaginable riches for investors, but none of this would be possible without the strong foundation offered by layer-one blockchain networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum.  Smart contracts and layer-two protocols promise to revolutionize the finance and logistics industry, but they require a robust, secure and distributed network to operate on and to ensure their immutability…. Source link

Juan Mayén, a Honduran entrepreneur who’s trying to set up the country’s first crypto exchange. (Photo courtesy of Juan Mayén) Juan Mayén, a Honduran entrepreneur, just opened his country’s first crypto ATM, La Bitcoinera, earlier this week. Located in Honduras’ largest city, Tegucigalpa, inside the building where Mayén works, the ATM is one step forward in the entrepreneur’s goal of giving Hondurans access to cryptocurrency markets. Since El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele first… Source link

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and other cryptocurrencies “are not legal tenders and have no actual value support,” according to Deputy Director of the Financial Consumer Rights Protection Bureau of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) Yin Youping. What Happened: According to a report by local news outlet People’s Daily Online, Youping said that cryptocurrencies are purely speculative assets. He also advised the public to increase its risk awareness and stay away from the crypto market to “protect… Source link