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After Clampdown, Chinese Mining Companies Move to Kazakhstan

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Crypto mining businesses in China are considering alternatives after the government banned their activities. A leading cryptocurrency mining enterprise BIT Mining is moving the equipment to Kazakhstan. The first stack consisting of 320 pieces of equipment with a technical total hash rate potential...

MicroStrategy owns over 100.000 Bitcoins

MicroStrategy Bought Additional 13,005 Bitcoins for $489 M

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Enterprise analytics company MicroStrategy revealed buying 13,005 bitcoins for $489 M. The company's CEO Michael Saylor tweeted that currently, the company owns over 100.085 BTC purchased for around $2.7 B at an average price of about $26,080 per coin. MicroStrategy has purchased an additional...

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Jay-Z and Roc-A-Fella Sued Dame Dash Over an NFT

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American hip-hop record label Roc-A-Fella established by Jay-Z, Damon Dash, and Biggs Burke sued Damon Dash for intending to mint and sell Jay-Z's first album "Reasonable Doubt" as an NFT. The lawsuit shows that Dash intended to purchase an NFT of the album on the network SuperFarm via an...

Hip Hop NFTs

Universal Hip-Hop Museum and Near Protocol to Present NFTs

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On June 19, Dapp platform Near announced launching an auction of 103 NFTs in honor of Hip-Hop stars. The date of the release was chosen as it's a federal holiday marking the end of slavery. We just launched the auction of 100+ Legendary #HipHopHeads #NFTs! 🔥#NEAR is super excited about this...

Bitcoin hashrate falls

Bitcoin Hashrate Fell at 103.34 EH/s

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According to data provided by the mining calculator CoinWarz, the Bitcoin hashrate fell at 103.34 EH/s. Hashrate is an important indicator of BTC performance as it reflects the value of how many hashes are being produced by miners attempting to solve a BTC block. So, it depends on the mining...

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Scammers Send Fake Ledger Wallets to Users

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Scammers are sending fake hardware wallets to people whose data was collected through a 3rd party data leak. Those are fake wallets for stealing crypto. The scam first appeared in May. Cybercriminals mailed people packages that include a fake Ledger Nano wallet. On June 17, Ledger explained the...

Paraguay Bitcoin

Paraguay Will Legalize BTC in July

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A Paraguayan official, Deputy of the Nation, Carlos Helman, said the country is going to legalize BTC in July. He informed the news via Twitter. Rejala is a Bitcoin supporter and his profile picture on Twitter is with Laser Eyes. He says Paraguay needs to make progress hand-in-hand with the new...

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Nascar Driver Will Get His Salary in Crypto

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Racecar driver in NASCAR, Landon Cassill will get some amount of his salary in BTC and LTC in terms of sponsorship with crypto asset trading platform Voyager. Cassil shared the news via Twitter. Voyager concluded a contract with Cassill, which will start function this weekend. @InvestVoyager...

CNN Launches NFTs

CNN Launches an NFT Collection

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Leading news platform CNN is releasing a series of NFTs on the Flow blockchain. People can acquire them by paying in fiat. On June 1, CNN celebrated its 41st anniversary. Later this month the company is launching an NFT collection with the name “Vault by CNN”. The collectibles will present...

Defi merger

Keep Network and NuCypher to Combine Protocols for Upgrade

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Keep Network and NuCypher, protocols running on Ethereum are creating a merger with the codename KEANU. It's worth mentioning that KEANU is only the codename and the planned DAO may be renamed later. The name has a logic: KEANU is a kind of combination of the two project...

McAfee has no crypto holdings

Imprisoned John McAfee Says His Crypto Capital Is Gone

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English-American computer programmer and entrepreneur John McAfee announced via Tweet that although the US believes he has hidden some crypto, his all crypto capital is gone. McAfee said he would like to have crypto but his holdings have dissolved by Team McAfee and the remained amount was seized....

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Sygnum Bank Initiates Services for DeFi Tokens

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On June 15 Switzerland-based digital asset bank Sygnum published a post where it informed about delivering operations for DeFi tokens AAVE, Aragon (ANT), Curve (CRV), Maker (MKR), Synthetix (SNX), Uniswap (UNI), and 1INCH. In addition, the establishment will provide activities for dollar-pegged...

CoinPro listings

Coinbase Pro Starts Trading of SHIB, KEEP, and CHZ

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US-based leading platform for crypto operations, Coinbase Pro informed about listing three new tokens: Shiba Inu (SHIB), Keep Network (KEEP), and Chiliz (CHZ). As stated in the publication, the tokens will be allowed in Coinbase's supported jurisdictions besides Singapore. KEEP and CHZ won't be...

Mark Cuban article

Mark Cuban Released an Article About DeFi and Its Advantages

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American billionaire investor Mark Cuban wrote an article related to blockchain technology and the DeFi industry titled “The Brilliance of Yield Farming, Liquidity Providing, and Valuing Crypto Projects". He stated that crypto businesses make more sense than people think and valuing tokens...

Bitcoin over $40.000

BTC Surpassed $40.000, Paul Tudor Jones Praises the Coin

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For the first time, this month Bitcoin's price surpassed $40.000. The raise happened on June 14. Currently, the coin trades at over $40.200 with a market cap of around $834.7 Billion. Several factors had an impact on the price growth. Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the company will start accepting...

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The Netherlands' Finance Minister Is Against the Crypto Ban

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Lately, Dutch official Pieter Hasekamp issued an article “The Netherlands must ban Bitcoin", where he said that crypto crumple is unavoidable and urged the authorities to forbid crypto sooner. Answering this, Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said he doesn't agree with an entire crypto ban....

Tesla Bitcoin

Tesla Will Restart Accepting BTC After Mining Improvements

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In a recent Tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will allow Bitcoin payments again when the mining of the coin becomes more environmentally friendly and uses approximately 50% renewable energy. Following Musk's announcement that Tesla no longer accepts BTC payments in May, a lot of people...

Jack Dorsey Lightning Network

Twitter or BlueSky May Integrate Lightning Network

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Businessman Jack Dorsey said he sees a possibility to include Bitcoin's Layer 2 solution Lightning Network into one of the media platforms led by him. When Dorsey posted about sphinx_chat, a forum where people can talk about lightning, a user named @deyonte, suggested Lightning Network's inclusion...

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