South Korean prosecutors have raided two of the country’s largest coin trading platforms within an investigation into the crypto investments of a politician. They seized materials from Upbit and Bithumb amid suspicions of wrongdoing related to the lawmaker’s cryptocurrency holdings. South…
A project to build two large-scale facilities for cryptocurrency mining is underway in the United Arab Emirates (アラブ首長国連邦). 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…
Authorities in Iran have closed down more than 8,000 underground facilities for cryptocurrency mining in the past three years, 地元メディアが報じた. Despite the government’s crackdown, illegal crypto mining continues to account for a serious amount of energy consumption, official figures…
Investigative journalist James Corbett has recently referred to the ongoing global banking crisis involving SVB, Signature Bank, Credit Suisse and others as the “Panic of 2023,” drawing comparisons to what he views as historical precedents, and pointing ahead to an inevitable…
Ticketmaster, the global provider of event ticketing services, has launched “token-gated sales,” allowing fans access to concert tickets using non-fungible token (NFT) テクノロジー. The first to use the service is the metal band Avenged Sevenfold (A7X), whose “Deathbats Club” NFTコレクション…
A national survey commissioned by Coinbase suggests that about 20% of U.S. adults currently own crypto. 加えて, 29% of U.S. adults plan to buy or trade crypto in the next 12 月. “The vast majority of Americans want to see…
Brazilians will now be able to pay part of their state taxes using cryptocurrencies. Banco do Brazil, a mixed ownership bank, is launching the option of paying a set of taxes with crypto, using Bitfy, a Brazilian cryptocurrency startup, as a…
File transfer service giant Wetransfer announced Monday it is collaborating with blockchain platform Minima to offer a non-fungible token (NFT) minting product in March. Wetransfer’s announcement details that users leveraging the Minima cooperative will be able to mint NFTs from a…
