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Ethereum’s major upgrade is coming. Should you be more bullish on it than bitcoin?
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Bitcoin Mining Stocks Look Cheap. Why Investors Are Still Skeptical.
Text size Costs per Bitcoin mined range from $4,500 to $16,000 across the industry. Dreamstime A recovery in the price of Bitcoin should fuel gains for mining companies that process transactions on th...
Riot Blockchain’s COO to Exit After One Year
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New Mexico Official Who Founded ‘Cowboys For Trump’ Found Guilty Over Role In Jan. 6 Riot
Topline A commissioner of Otero County, New Mexico, was convicted Tuesday of illegally entering U.S. Capitol grounds during the January 6 Capitol riot, after the second of what could be hundreds of tr...
Riot Blockchain sees 2022 as year of Consolidation
The Colorado-based miner beat analysts’ estimates for 2021 sales Sales hashrate and BTC Price accredited to such revenue numbers Riot began mining Bitcoin in 2018 from a 12 megawatt (MW) facility One ...
Largest cryptocurrencies mixed as Cardano rises
The largest cryptocurrencies were mixed during morning trading on Thursday, with Cardano ADAUSD, -0.12% seeing the biggest move, rallying 2.82% to 85 cents. Polkadot DOTUSD, +0.62% led the decreases w...
Riot Blockchain Sees 2022 as Year of Consolidation in Bitcoin Mining Sector
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Proud Boys Head Detained Pending Trial Over Capitol Riot
Topline A federal judge in Miami ordered that Enrique Tarrio, a former leader of the far-right Proud Boys, be held in jail without bail while he awaits trial on charges related to the January 6 Capito...
Pussy Riot Co-founder Launches DAO in Support of Women and LGBTQ+ Artists
Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova today announced the launch of UnicornDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization that calls itself “a feminist movement aiming to tackle patriarchy in ...
Pussy Riot Launches UnicornDAO to “Tackle Patriarchy” in Web3
Key Takeaways Feminist activist group Pussy Riot has partnered with some of the top creators in Web3 to launch UnicornDAO. UnicornDAO will be a community-led investment fund focused on NFT projects le...
Riot Blockchain Reports 189% Increase in BTC Production for February 2022
The recent dip in the price of Bitcoin is not impacting the mining activities across the BTC network. Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company, Riot Blockchain recently announced its production and operat...
January 6 Committee Subpoenas Kimberly Guilfoyle, Says She Helped Incite Capitol Riot
Topline The House committee investigating the Capitol riot Thursday subpoenaed Kimberly Guilfoyle—fiancée to Donald Trump Jr. and the 2020 Trump campaign’s fundraising chief—six days after she walked...
l’iniziativa di Pussy Riot, Trippy Labs e PleasrDao
Ukraine DAO è la nuova iniziativa di Pussy Riot, Trippy Labs e PleasrDao per raccogliere fondi tramite Ethereum NFT per sostenere l’Ucraina, dopo l’attacco della Russia. Ukraine DAO: Pussy Riot, Trip...
Pussy Riot Founder, Trippy Labs, PleasrDAO Members Launch ‘Ukraine DAO’
In the wake of Russia’s incursion into Ukraine, crypto users have taken it upon themselves to raise money in support of the beleaguered nation. To that end, decentralized autonomous organization...
Worldspark Studios Raises $3M for NFT Games From Riot, Bungie Veterans
In brief Worldspark Studios is a blockchain gaming startup that has veteran developers from Riot Games and more. The firm raised $3 million in seed funding and is developing a game called Edenbrawl th...
Marine Reservist charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot sold fake Covid cards, feds say
A stack of COVID-19 Vaccination Record Cards from the CDC. Ben Hasty | MediaNews Group | Getty Images A U.S. Marine Corps Reservist from New York who previously was arrested on charges related to part...
Republicans And Democrats Will Both Support Bitcoin: Here’s Why
CLEVELAND, OHIO – SEPTEMBER 29: U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe … [+] Biden participate in the first presidential debate moderated by Fox News anchor Ch...
Riot Blockchain Announces 458 Bitcoins Mined in January
Riot Blockchain, a Bitcoin Bitcoin Bitcoin is the world’s first digital currency that was created in 2009 by a mysterious entity named Satoshi Nakamoto. As a digital currency or cryptocurrency, Bi...
Tax season: does the IRS know if you trade crypto? Is your NFT sale or mining income taxable?
Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch. It is tax season in the U.S., and I’ll ...
Oath Keepers Leader Denied Bail Following Capitol Riot Sedition Charge
Topline Stewart Rhodes—leader of the Oath Keepers militia group—will remain in jail ahead of a trial on seditious conspiracy charges related to the January 6 Capitol riot, after a Texas federal judge ...
Capitol Riot Committee Subpoenas Trump Attorneys Giuliani And Powell
Topline Lawmakers investigating last year’s riot at the U.S. Capitol building issued subpoenas on Tuesday to four Trump campaign allies and attorneys who helped lead the former president’s fight to ov...
$500K BTC donation triggers a new probe into the Capitol Hill riot
Law enforcement and investigative agencies have opened new investigations to find the sources that funded Capitol Hill rioters. A report unveiled this news on January 14, noting that a $500,000.00 (£3...
$500,000 Bitcoin Donation Prompts Renewed Investigation Into Capitol Hill Riot: Report
Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are investigating the funding sources behind Capitol Hill rioters after a $500,000 transfer worth of Bitcoin has sparked renewed concern, per Yahoo News. Thi...
DOJ Charges Oath Keepers Leader, 10 Others In Latest Jan. 6 Case
Topline Stewart Rhodes — leader of the anti-government Oath Keepers — was charged Thursday with seditious conspiracy stemming from the Capitol riot, one of the highest-profile arrests in the Departmen...
Bitcoin and Other Cryptos Are Stabilizing. The Miners Look Like Value Plays.
Text size Dreamstime Bitcoin and other cryptos were trading higher on Tuesday, showing signs of stability after one of their longest losing streaks since 2018. Bitcoin was pricing around $42,900, up 2...
Russian protest group Pussy Riot seeks to tackle gender inequality in the NFT space
Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot is planning to launch a DAO for LBTQ+ and women artists. As the group’s co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova told Cointelegraph, the DAO will be working on reducing t...
Capitol Riot Committee Subpoenas Staffer Who Allegedly Helped Draft Trump’s Jan. 6 ‘Stop The Steal’ Speech
Topline The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot issued three more subpoenas Tuesday, requesting documents and deposition from a Trump official who allegedly helped draft the former pre...
Federal Judge Says Capitol Riot Defendant Can’t Travel To Jamaica While Awaiting Trial
Topline A Michigan man accused of storming the U.S. Capitol building on January 6 cannot fly to Jamaica for 10 days later this month, a federal judge said in a scathing order Thursday, exactly one yea...
One Year After Capitol Hill Riot, Far Right’s Love Affair With Bitcoin Persists
One year ago today, some Trump voters and members of the far right descended on Capitol Hill in Washington, attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election. They failed, but the r...
Jan. 6 Committee Asks Sean Hannity To Cooperate With Capitol Riot Investigation
Topline The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is planning to reach out to Fox News host Sean Hannity, turning to one of the most prominent conservative figures in ...
Corporations, groups gave over $8 million to GOP election objectors after Jan. 6 riot: Study
Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washing...