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Terra Classic: This crypto exchange CEO endures the heat of LUNC’s 1.2% burn
After months of waiting, Terra Classic [LUNC] developers finally rolled out the 1.2% tax burn protocol. The rollout did manage to attract the interest of the crypto community. Furthermore, several exc...
How Clean Energy Kept California’s Lights On During A Historically Extreme Heat Wave
California’s power grid is on the forefront of two unavoidable trends: adding massive amounts of renewable energy and coping with extreme heat driven by climate change. The two-week September heat wav...
More than half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck — even the wealthy are feeling the heat of continued inflation
‘It’s everyone. It’s all of us’: More than half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck — even the wealthy are feeling the heat of continued inflation Pushing yourself to save can be ...
California’s Extreme Heat, Cooking With Lynja On Forbes Top Creators, And A Game-Changer For Fast-Food Workers
It may be back to school, but summer’s heat is far from over. Horrifying temperatures have been hitting California, particularly. In downtown Sacramento on Tuesday afternoon, a 100-year-old record was...
How A Western Heatwave Is Setting Disturbing Records
A sign at Talini’s Nursery advises customers that it is closing early due to the heatwave in … [+] Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. The National Weather Service reported the tem...
California avoids widespread rolling blackouts as heat strains grid
A temperature sign at an El Dorado Savings Bank during a heatwave in Sacramento, California, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images California has avoided ordering rol...
California Raises Energy Alert—Warning Of Rolling Blackouts Due To Historic Heat Wave
Topline California’s electrical grid operator issued an urgent warning asking residents to conserve energy Tuesday, raising its energy alert status to its highest level before moving to rolling ...
Repurposing Bitcoin mining heat can solve global energy crisis: Arcane
The flexibility behind running Bitcoin (BTC) mining operations can be vital to solving the real-world problems that stand in the way of the energy industry, suggests Arcane research. One of the bigges...
Shiba Inu: Assessing odds of SHIB gaining heat from the August burn
Shiba Inu [SHIB], one of the most popular Ethereum-based meme coins, registered a massive 9% decline in its seven-day performance. This sparked fear in the SHIB community. Recently, SHIBBURN, a Twitte...
Stablecoin wars heat up as USDC and USDT battle for market share
Since the Terra Luna crisis earlier this year, there has been a shake-up in the stablecoin ecosystem. At the time of its collapse, TerraUSD (UST) had a market cap of just over $18 billion, which was w...
Over 200k BTC Has Been Dumped By Institutions Since May In The Heat Of The Bear Market ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     The last three months have not been particularly favourable to the crypto markets – the Terra collapse amidst the steadfast Crypto Winter further exa...
Texas Is A Bitcoin ‘Hot Spot’ Even As Heat Waves Rise
Extreme heat won’t stop miners from setting up operations in Texas More sustainable practices may be required A number of miners in Texas had to cease operations entirely Record-breaking heat waves ar...
In Summer Of Record Heat, U.S. Power Grid Is Holding Up–So Far
High voltage transmission towers in Houston, Texas Getty Images Despite earlier warnings from grid operators and power grid reliability experts, this summer’s unprecedented heat waves have not caused ...
Is There Science Behind Why Teens Wear Hoodies In Summer Heat?
If you are the parent of a teenager (or perhaps a pre-teen) then you probably understand what is forthcoming in this essay. I have a fifteen-year-old son who wears long-sleeved hoodies in the middle o...
Despite Heat Wave, Bitcoin Miners Turn on Rigs As BTC Price Jumps
The recent price surge by Bitcoin over the last two weeks has forced BTC miners to turn on their rigs despite the ongoing heat wave in the west. Amid the Bitcoin price crossing $23,000, the BTC mining...
Riot Blockchain Mined 28% Less Bitcoin in July Due to Massive Heat Waves
One of the leading bitcoin mining companies – Riot Blockchain – mined 318 BTC in July – a 28% production decrease compared to June’s figures. The main reason for the crippled productivity was last mon...
These U.S. Cities Could See Record-Breaking Temperatures As A Heat Wave Hits The Northeast
Topline Cities across the Northeast U.S. are projected to either meet or break daily high-temperature records Thursday as a vicious heat wave engulfs the region and puts millions of people under heat ...
Lizzo Tops Hot 100 Again As Glass Animals’ ‘Heat Waves’ Breaks Chart Record
Topline Lizzo’s single “About Damn Time” topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the second week in a row, as the Glass Animals’ song “Heat Waves” became the third-longest charting song in history. Lizzo per...
Heat wave puts miners in serious trouble in Texas
A new heat wave hits Texas, and cryptocurrency miners are feeling all the negative effects. Texas summer doesn’t seem like a good place for cryptocurrency miners Mining requires a great deal of elect...
Polygon Price Feels The Heat As MATIC Retreats To $0.60
After its bullish shindig seen last week, Polygon (MATIC) price is now going the opposite direction as it continues to plunge to $0.60. MATIC is seen to have plummeted by more than 20% in comparison t...
Sunday Heat Wave Scorches These U.S. Cities From St. Louis To New York
Topline More than 85 million Americans live in areas under excessive heat warnings, the National Weather Service said Sunday, as an “extremely oppressive” heat wave across much of the southern and nor...
These Major Temperature Records Were Shattered In Scorching Heat Waves
Topline Record books across the world had to be rewritten this week as a series of intense heat waves gripped large sections of the northern hemisphere, headlined by a scorching European heat wave tha...
ZK Roll Up Wars Heat up, Matter Labs Announces Its Plans For ZkSync
Matter Labs, parent company of the zero-knowledge rollup zkSync, announced on blogging platform Medium on Wednesday, its plans to launch zkSync 2.0 to Ethereum’s mainnet in 100 days and included a pub...
Extreme Heat Leaves Parts Of Europe Engulfed In Forest Fires, No Respite Expected Today
Topline A severe heatwave is spanning parts of western Europe and the British Isles, sparking several destructive forest fires in some regions that have caused at least two deaths in Spain—experts say...
Europe suffers from deadly heat wave as wildfires displace thousands
Paramedics help a patient into an ambulance during a heat wave in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday, July 18, 2022. Angel Garcia | Bloomberg | Getty Images A deadly heat wave in western Europe has triggered...