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METHANE-CAPTURER VESPENE ENERGY RAISES .3M TO HELP CITIES MINE BITCOIN

METHANE-CAPTURER VESPENE ENERGY RAISES $4.3M TO HELP CITIES MINE BITCOIN

Vespene builds infrastructure for municipalities to mine bitcoin, creating a new revenue stream and encouraging education in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Vespene Energy raised $4.3 million to help cities mine bitcoin. Vespene’s structure encourages municipalities to become involved in the mining ecosystem. The first pilot location will be in central California. Vespene Energy, a methane mitigation […]

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Reddit Expands Community Points Offering With FTX Pay Integration

Reddit Expands Community Points Offering With FTX Pay Integration

Users of the social media platform will now be able to purchase ether directly on the app. Social media giant Reddit has partnered with FTX Pay to allow users to pay gas fees on transactions using community points, according to a press release. The integration will also allow users to purchase ether (ETH) directly on the

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Vitalik Buterin proposes stealth addresses for anonymous NFT ownership

Vitalik Buterin proposes stealth addresses for anonymous NFT ownership

“You would be able to eg. send an NFT to vitalik.eth without anyone except me (the new owner) being able to see who the new owner is,” said the Ethereum co-founder. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has suggested there may be a “low-tech approach” to incorporating privacy features into nonfungible token, or NFT, transactions. In a Monday post

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WhatsApp will soon let you slip out of group chats undetected

WhatsApp will soon let you slip out of group chats undetected

KEY POINTS WhatsApp will soon launch a feature that lets users slip out of group chats undetected. It’s part of a handful of measures the encrypted messaging platform is taking to enhance privacy. WhatsApp is launching a new feature that will allow users to leave lengthy group chats without alerting others to their exit. Currently,

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Singapore Crypto Lender Hodlnaut Suspends Withdrawals, Citing Tough Market Conditions

Singapore Crypto Lender Hodlnaut Suspends Withdrawals, Citing Tough Market Conditions

Singapore-based cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform Hodlnaut announced on Monday that it had suspended customer withdrawals, swaps, and deposits. The firm cited “difficult market conditions” as the reason that triggered the move. The crypto lender also withdrew its application for a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to offer digital token payment services.

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Mark Cuban Mocks the Metaverse: ‘It Is Anything You Want It to Be’

Mark Cuban Mocks the Metaverse: ‘It Is Anything You Want It to Be’

Mark Cuban, investor, Shark Tank star, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks is skeptical when it comes to the concept of the metaverse. In a recent interview, when asked about the definition of the metaverse, Cuban stated that the metaverse was “anything you want it to be,” declaring that buying land in the metaverse was

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Popular Election-Betting Site PredictIt Throttled by US Regulator

Popular Election-Betting Site PredictIt Throttled by US Regulator

The site where people can wager on the outcome of political battles has until February to close its U.S. operations, said the CFTC. Election betting platform PredictIt must shut down for U.S. users in February, according to an order from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The CFTC said the operators haven’t complied with the agency’s

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Core Scientific Sold 1,975 Bitcoins More That It Mined in July

Core Scientific Sold 1,975 Bitcoins More That It Mined in July

Core Scientific, a major publicly traded cryptocurrency mining firm in North America, on Friday, announced its production and operational updates for July 2022. During the month of July, the firm mined 1,221 Bitcoins, as compared to 1,106 BTCs mined in June. The company also expanded its fleet of self-mining servers by 6% to 109,000 in July from

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China and Taiwan’s Potential Economic Impact, Bear Market Warnings, and FC Barcelona Metaverse News — Bitcoin.com News Week in Review

China and Taiwan’s Potential Economic Impact, Bear Market Warnings, and FC Barcelona Metaverse News — Bitcoin.com News Week in Review

From ominous speculation about the potential economic fallout of military conflict between Taiwan and China, to markets being flooded with designer watches in the wake of a crypto downturn, to warnings of worse bear markets and soccer franchises pushing forward in the realm of metaverse ambitions, there’s once again never a dull moment in the

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Elon Musk: US ‘past peak inflation’ after Tesla sells 90% of Bitcoin

Elon Musk: US ‘past peak inflation’ after Tesla sells 90% of Bitcoin

The firm may be caught short in the event that markets have already bottomed and crypto starts to deliver serious returns again. Bitcoin (BTC) is in short supply at Tesla, even as its CEO predicts that United States inflation has already peaked. Speaking at Tesla’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on Aug. 5, Elon Musk predicted that

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