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Gofundme Shuts Down Truckers’ Freedom Convoy Fundraiser, Move Highlights the Importance of Crypto Crowdfunding – Bitcoin News
This week the world has been watching the thousands of truckers in Canada protesting the vaccine mandates at the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa. The Freedom Convoy has received worldwide support and million...
Ahead of a Cold Blast, Texas’s Biggest Bitcoin Miner Shuts Down
The Whinstone mine cut power use or closed down completely for nearly eight days in February 2021, while winter storm Uri caused outages across the state. The factory reduces its power consumption or ...
Crypto miner in Texas shuts down 99% of operations as winter storm approaches
With Winter Storm Landon expected to hit parts of Texas this week, major crypto mining firms are powering down in anticipation of high demands on the state’s power grid. Speaking to Cointelegraph on W...
Mark Zuckerberg’s stablecoin project Diem officially shuts down
Meta, formerly branded as Facebook, has officially announced the closure of its digital currency project Diem after years of major efforts to move forward with the initiative. Announcing the news on M...
Scandal-Ridden DeFi Project Wonderland Shuts Down as Price Tanks
Alex Dovbnya The Wonderland community is not pleased with the decision Controversial decentralized finance protocol Wonderland has called it quits, according to co-founder Daniele Sestagalli. 1/Wonder...
Singapore Shuts down Crypto ATMs After Ban on Public Crypto Ads
All cryptocurrency ATMs in Singapore have been shut down by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, following the city-state’s prohibition of all crypto-related advertisements in public spaces. “To compl...
Billionaire Mark Cuban Shuts Down Dogecoin Critic
Alex Dovbnya Billionaire Mark Cuban continues to stand with the Dogecoin community Billionaire Mark Cuban has once again bucked heads with Pennsylvania-based entrepreneur and podcaster Preston Pysh on...
World’s 2nd biggest mining hub shuts down – Bitcoin doesn’t skip a beat
Chaos erupted in Kazakhstan this week and bitcoin mining was shut down as protests over fuel prices have sparked widespread unrest across the country. Kazakhstan, the Central Asian country of around 2...
Picard’ Crew Shuts Down Set
Topline Crew members filming Star Trek: Picard tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, leading to a halt in production of the show, a source familiar with the situation told Forbes, making it the late...
Kazakhstan Shuts Down Banks, Internet Amid Unrest That Threatens Bitcoin Mining, Hashrate – Mining Bitcoin News
Measures imposed by authorities to quell mass protests in mining hotspot Kazakhstan are affecting cryptocurrency markets and the Bitcoin network hashrate. To deal with the civil unrest caused by risin...
Kazakh government resigns, shuts down internet amid protests, causing Bitcoin network hash rate to tumble 13.4%
On Wednesday, Kazakhstan, the second-largest country in the world when it comes to Bitcoin (BTC) mining hash rate, experienced unprecedented political unrest due to a sharp rise in fuel prices. As a r...
Kazakhstan Government Shuts Down Internet As Bitcoin Hashrate Dips By 13%
Following the political unrest in the country that saw the sitting cabinet resigning, the Kazakhstan government has now shut down the nation’s internet with immediate effect. And while there is no tim...
CFTC Fines ‘Decentralized’ Prediction Market Platform Polymarket $1.4 Million, Shuts Down Noncompliant Markets – Regulation Bitcoin News
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered a “decentralized” prediction market platform to shut down non-compliant markets and pay a fine of $1.4 million. “Polymarket had been op...
CFTC Shuts Down Polymarket – Crypto Briefing
Key Takeaways Polymarket has been fined $1.4 million by the CFTC and will also be forced to shut down all of its markets. The prediction market service offered events contracts, something that only re...