A combination of more hash rate coming online from mining plants and a price protection approach is shielding Bitcoin mining firm Marathon Digital Holdings through the bear market, CEO Fred Thiel told Cointelegraph.  In an exclusive interview during the 2023 Bitcoin Conference in Miami, Thiel disclosed the strategy behind Marathon’s figures in the first quarter of
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The international regulatory environment for cryptocurrency is improving, and the company is eyeing a retail expansion on the continent, Bakkt chief product officer Dan O’Prey said. On the whole, O’Prey saw positive long-term trends. Speaking to Cointelegraph’s U.S. News Editor, Sam Bourgi, at Bitcoin 2023, O’Prey described Bakkt as prioritizing its role as a “B2B2C”
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Crypto needs to establish itself as a “brand-new” component of traditional finance, rather than try to squeeze itself into existing financial products, suggests the CEO of crypto exchange Bittrex Global. The company’s United States arm recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, announcing it intended to return customer funds and wind U.S. operations. It added it would
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Less than a year after proof-of-stake (PoS) became the consensus mechanism for the Ethereum blockchain — the industry’s largest blockchain network — researchers have found that PoS can complement Bitcoin.  Stanford University professor David Tsè spoke to Cointelegraph at the 2023 Bitcoin Builders conference in Miami, Florida, about his team’s findings on Bitcoin, PoS, security and
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Coinbase Cloud will leverage its global infrastructure and experience managing blockchain data to bolster the security and reliability of the Chainlink blockchain oracle network. The United States-based cryptocurrency exchange’s cloud service will operate as a new node operator on the Chainlink network in a partnership set to improve the decentralization of the Web3 ecosystem.  Coinbase Cloud’s infrastructure already
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Most technological revolutions come with an unforeseen darker side. When Austrian-born physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch first split the atom in the late 1930s, they probably didn’t anticipate their discovery would lead a few years later to the atomic bomb. The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is arguably no different.  AI algorithms have been around
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Tether, the company behind the largest stablecoin Tether (USDT), is following in the footsteps of MicroStrategy to manage its reserves. The stablecoin issuer plans to strengthen its reserves with the help of Bitcoin (BTC) and move away from United States-based government debts. In an announcement on May 17, Tether revealed that it plans to invest a
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FTX lawyers are suing former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder Zixiao Wang, and former senior executive Nishad Singh over the $220 million acquisition of stock-clearing platform Embed, alleging lack of due diligence.  According to a May 17 filing, FTX had paid $220 million to acquire Embed through its United States subsidiary after having allegedly “performed almost no due
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