Bitcoin environmental battles heat up in USBitcoin industry battles increase in US. Environmental concerns grow over energy consumption. Legal fights erupt over mining permits. Commu...
24 Apr, 2024, 11.23 PM IST
Bitcoin Halving 2024 Explained : How it works & Why does it MatterThe 2024 Bitcoin halving, anticipated to drive prices up significantly, highlights the importance of Bitcoin in the crypto world. This even...
18 Apr, 2024, 05.53 PM IST
El Salvador partnership to build $1 billion bitcoin mining farmThe announcement comes two years after Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele declared his intention to make bitcoin legal tender.
06 Jun, 2023, 03.11 PM IST
Cost of crypto: report say U.S. bitcoin as dirty as 6 million carsThe industry's carbon footprint, the groups said, was 27.4 million tonnes from mid-2021 through 2022 - three times that of the largest U.S....
23 Sep, 2022, 12.17 PM IST
Low-carbon bitcoin? Crypto miners' green power talk angers Texas localsAs electricity prices hit $5,000 per megawatt hour on a hot day, it was no longer profitable to run the machines that compete to verify blo...
06 Sep, 2022, 04.01 PM IST
New York passes bill to halt Bitcoin mining for two yearsAccording to Coindesk, mining companies based in New York have threatened to leave the state if the moratorium is passed.
03 Jun, 2022, 01.48 PM IST
Bitcoin miners want to recast themselves as eco-friendlyIn bitcoin's early years, a crypto enthusiast could mine coins by running software on a laptop. But as digital assets have become more popu...
22 Mar, 2022, 08.25 AM IST
Cryptoverse: The young HODLers keeping bitcoin on an even keelThis trend could help stabilise the notoriously volatile crypto market and potentially provide a long-term floor, according to some market ...
08 Mar, 2022, 12.12 PM IST
Bitcoin could be laid low by miners' maladyThe cryptocurrency's spectacular rally in 2021 drew thousands of entrants into mining, or producing new coin. As a result the hashrate, or ...
22 Feb, 2022, 03.21 PM IST
Tesla to accept dogecoin as payment for merchandise, says Elon MuskTesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday said the electric carmaker will accept meme-based digital currency dogecoin for merchandise.
14 Jan, 2022, 03.20 PM IST
Kazakhstan unrest upends Bitcoin miningThe lack of connectivity disrupted huge cryptocurrency mining operations in the country, which has become one of the world's largest hubs f...
07 Jan, 2022, 10.08 AM IST
A Bitcoin boom fueled by cheap power, empty plants and few rulesSoaring Bitcoin values may be the investment talk of Wall Street, but a few hours north, in upstate New York, the buzz is about companies t...
06 Dec, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
El Salvador plans $1 billion in tokenised Bitcoin bondsAfter a 5 year lockup period, the government will begin to sell its Bitcoins and pay an additional dividend to investors, Mow said. He told...
21 Nov, 2021, 10.51 AM IST
Bitcoin-mining power plant raises ire of environmentalistsGreenidge said it mined 729 bitcoins over three months ending Sept. 30. The value of cryptocurrency fluctuates, and on Friday, one bitcoin ...
17 Oct, 2021, 10.25 AM IST
Bitcoin mining generates tonnes of e-waste: StudyThis mining system had also created pressures miners to run only the latest, fastest, most energy-efficiency computer chips and discard old...
21 Sep, 2021, 05.12 PM IST
China's cryptocurrency-mining crackdown spreads to Yunnan in southwestIn addition to concerns about the huge amounts of energy needed for the computing power to create cryptocurrencies, the central government ...
12 Jun, 2021, 04.50 PM IST
Turning coal into bitcoin? Dirty secret of 2017's hottest marketChina is the biggest operator of computer “mines” and probably accounts for about a quarter of all the power used to create cryptocurrencie...
15 Dec, 2017, 09.40 PM IST