The world this weekJul 3rd 2021 edition Jul 1st 2021 This article appeared in the The world this week section of the print edition under the headline «KAL’s cartoon» The Economist Today Hand-picked stories, in your inbox A daily email with the best of our journalism
A medida que el mes de junio llega a su fin, los comerciantes le están pidiendo a Magic 8-Ball respuestas a la pregunta de dónde irá el precio de Bitcoin a continuación.
La represión de China contra la minería de Bitcoin ha hecho que la tasa de hash caiga en picado y ha servido además para resaltar los aspectos ambientales perjudiciales de la criptomoneda más popular del mundo. Pero las consecuencias no se han abordado adecuadamente, según un académico británico de alto nivel. Pete Howson, profesor titular …
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MATIC, SUSHI y CAKE se disparan después de que los toros de Bitcoin finalmente presionan el precio por encima de la resistencia de $ 35,000.
Investors are worried about the environmental impact of Bitcoin—and it’s partly down to Twitter loudmouth and tech billionaire Elon Musk. That’s according to a new report from financial news website Investing.com. The site surveyed 1,103 investors in early June, and about a third said they only learned about the effects of Bitcoin mining on the …
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The investment bank reported owning a significant stake in GBTC as of April 30, according to a recent filing with the SEC.
The price of SafeDollar, a DeFi stablecoin built on the Polygon blockchain, plummeted to $0 today after an attacker exploited a vulnerability in its liquidity pool. The team is yet to conclude its post-mortem of the attack. SushiSwap core developer Mudit Gupta said that the attackers looted about $250,000 worth of stablecoins from the platform’s …
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A successful Wyckoff culmination could see BTC price action target levels north of $40,000 again, one analysts says.
The average transaction fee on Ethereum is $2.15, data from BitInfoCharts shows. This is the lowest average fee since December 20, 2020, when the average fee was $2.00. Transaction fees did not exceed $2 for most of 2020, but things took a turn for the crazy as soon as Bitcoin’s bull run ramped into top …
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Amid growing concerns about the damaging environmental impact of Bitcoin mining, crypto exchange Gemini has launched “Gemini Green,” a new long-term initiative to offset the carbon emissions created by the cryptocurrency in the exchange’s custody. To accomplish the goal, Gemini has partnered with Climate Vault, a non-profit organization run by the University of Chicago. In …
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