Exploitation minière

Les entreprises russes utilisent « activement » la cryptographie, La Russie à adopter 4 Lois pertinentes, Officiel dit

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Russian lawmakers intend to soon approve four bills designed to regulate various aspects of cryptocurrencies, a high-ranking member of the Russian parliament announced. Entre-temps, Russian companies are already using digital assets in cross-border settlements, the official noted. Russian Legislature to Vote…

Large Immersion Cooled Crypto Mining Farms to Extract Bitcoin in Middle East Desert

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A project to build two large-scale facilities for cryptocurrency mining is underway in the United Arab Emirates (Émirats arabes unis). The high-tech data centers will rely on a full immersion solution to cool the power-hungry miners as the desert climate renders air-cooled mining…

Iran Shuts Down Over 8,000 Illegal Crypto Mining Farms in 3 Années

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Authorities in Iran have closed down more than 8,000 underground facilities for cryptocurrency mining in the past three years, local media reported. Despite the government’s crackdown, illegal crypto mining continues to account for a serious amount of energy consumption, official figures…

Bitcoin Network Hits 75% Progress Towards Next Reward Halving

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At 11:06 un m. Eastern Time (HE) en avril 29, 2023, at block height 787,500, the number of blocks left to discover until the next Bitcoin blockchain halving is now fewer than 52,500 blocs. This means the network has progressed 75% through…

Terawulf Energizes 50 MW at Nuclear-Powered Bitcoin Mining Facility Nautilus

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Bitcoin mining company Terawulf has announced the full deployment of its 50-megawatt (MW) stake in the nuclear-powered Nautilus Cryptomine facility. The behind-the-meter bitcoin mining facility is powered by 100% nuclear power and benefits from a fixed power cost of $0.02 per…

La police du Kosovo saisit des plates-formes minières cryptographiques aux Serbes

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Kosovo police have seized dozens of crypto mining devices from residents of a majority Serb region in the north of the country. Authorities in Pristina and Belgrade exchanged accusations over the move, which has the potential to raise tensions in the…

Cleanspark Purchases 45,000 Bitcoin Mining Devices, Adding 6.3 EH/s to Current Fleet

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BK, the bitcoin mining company Cleanspark announced that it had purchased 45,000 Antminer S19 XP bitcoin mining devices for a total price of $144.9 million. Cleanspark stated that the new fleet would add 6.3 exahash par seconde (EH/s) of computational…

Bitcoin Difficulty Reaches New All-Time High After Fourth Consecutive Increase

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En avril 6, 2023, Bitcoin’s difficulty rose 2.23% higher at block height 784,224, touching another all-time high. It’s the fourth consecutive difficulty increase on the Bitcoin network since Feb. 24, and the protocol’s current difficulty is 47.89 mille milliards, which is only…

Bitgo Launches Storage and Tracking Solution for Bitcoin-Based Ordinal Inscriptions

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Jeudi, digital asset custody provider, Bitgo, announced the launch of its storage and tracking solution for Bitcoin-based Ordinal inscriptions. Le co-fondateur d'Axie Infinity déclare que le jeu Blockchain prévoit de lancer un échange décentralisé, users can use Bitgo’s Ordinal inscription storage system to inscribe their own inscriptions onto the Bitcoin blockchain. Bitgo’s New Solution…

Bitcoin Hashrate Reaches 400 Exahash par seconde, Researcher Says Network Could Reach Zettahash Era by 2025

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Despite Bitcoin’s difficulty reaching an all-time high at 46.84 mille milliards, participants in bitcoin mining have kept the hashrate running stronger than ever before. According to statistics, on March 23, 2023, the hashrate reached a high of 400 exahash par seconde (EH/s)….