Bitcoin's upcoming halving is likely to impact miners and long-term holders differently, says Columbia professor.
BlockDrop Coin operates as a cutting-edge cryptocurrency that allocates mining rewards to token holders via weekly airdrops, simplifying access to the mining economy. Historically, the entry barriers to profitable Bitcoin mining have steadily increased, pushing individual miners and small operators to the periphery of the Bitcoin mining economy. This centralization of Bitcoin mining power raises […]
Popular onchain analyst Willy Woo has predicted a potential bitcoin price surge to $650,000 at the bull market’s peak. His prediction hinges on spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors fully deploying their assets based on recommendations from asset managers. “These are very conservative numbers. Bitcoin will beat gold cap when ETFs have completed their role,” […]
The Bitcoin roller coaster has had more peaks and valleys than usual over the past month. The price has soared to just under $72,000 and dipped asa low as $60,617, in a whiplash-inducing series of moves. Normally, that would be written off to the inherent volatility of cryptocurrencies, but this time around there’s a more solid reason: The Halving. Sounding like the name of a pretty graphic horror film, the halving is actually an event that occurs every four years in the crypto space. And...
Pietro Labriola secured a second term as CEO of Telecom Italia following an investor vote, in what appears to represent backing of his strategy to sell the operator's fixed network assets.
Like the Summer Olympics and the presidential election, bitcoin’s “halving” comes every four years. The latest halving — a preprogrammed event that cuts the amount of available coins to be mined in half — happened Friday (April 19) evening, according to multiple published reports. As noted here late last week, the halving is built in […]
Walmart is joining the ranks of retailers rethinking self-checkout, with the industry giant in the process of removing the self-service lanes at a store in Missouri.The return to registers staffed by humans at the Walmart store in Shrewsbury, a suburb of St. Louis, comes a month after Target announced only those buying 10 items or less could use the self-checkout lane at its stores, and Dollar General reduced self-checkout at thousands of its locations. The latter removed the option entirely at...
Binance Labs invests in BounceBit for Bitcoin restaking and CeDeFi innovations. BounceBit integrates CeFi and DeFi empowering BTC beyond traditional value storage. BounceBit’s dual-token system enhances security, transparency, and network utility for Bitcoin. In a strategic move aimed at expanding the utility of Bitcoin, Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has […]
While the Bitcoin community fixates on the upcoming halving and wavy interest in spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs), a looming threat could hinder its growth and adoption of the world’s most secure network: fragmentation of token standards. Token Issuing Standards On Bitcoin Fragmented In a post on X, one analyst pointed out the proliferation of competing token […]
With the advent of ETFs, this cycle could be the one where bitcoin's trend of diminishing post-halving returns reverses.
Yves Bennaïm, founder and chair of 2B4CH, a Swiss pro-Bitcoin think tank, is launching a popular initiative to amend the country’s constitution to allow its central bank to purchase and hold bitcoin. The initiative is also supported by Bitcoin Suisse President Luzius Meisser, who believes the bank should add bitcoin to its reserves. A Reform […]
A request to take a deep dive into serious or violent incidents in schools – which sparked more than an hour of trustee debate – was temporarily sidelined by red tape having to do with student privacy issues.