CleanSpark’s Bitcoin mining production rose more than 9% in May, bringing its treasury to 12,502 BTC, double the amount it held at the same time last year. According to its monthly report, the company mined 9.4% more Bitcoin (BTC) in May, producing 694 coins compared to 633 in April. CleanSpark also achieved a 45.6 exahash…
Bitcoin trading at or about record highs hasn’t proven to be much of a benefit to the roughed up the BTC miners, but perhaps the growing energy needs of the AI sector could prove to be the industry’s salvation. Social media giant Meta (META) on Tuesday inked a 20-year deal with a nuclear power plant…
US Senator Cynthia Lummis has indicated that certain divisions within the American military are backing the idea of a national Bitcoin reserve to address threats from economic wars. During a Bloomberg interview on June 3, Lummis said that some US generals, especially those based in Southeast Asia, support the idea of storing BTC as part…
On the eve of a U.S. House of Representatives hearing to scrutinize a bill to establish rules for the crypto markets, Democrats said they’ve been stymied from seeking technical information about its effects from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to staffers. Regulatory agencies such as the SEC routinely give technical analysis to lawmakers,…
Bitcoin mining company Cango produced nearly $100.5 million worth of Bitcoin in the two months following its full pivot to crypto mining, the company announced on June 3. Cango mined 954.5 Bitcoin (BTC) after going all-in on mining. Of the total haul, 470 BTC were mined in April and 484.5 BTC in May. This follows…
Pump.fun is planning to raise $1 billion in a token sale at a $4 billion fully diluted valuation (FDV), according to Blockworks, which added that it was unable to confirm timing nor whether the new token would be issued on pump.fun. The platform, which allows any and all to freely create their own tokens on…
Key points: Bitcoin seeks to take liquidity around $106,000 as traders hope for a sustained price recovery. Significant support is in place down to $97,000, boosting the odds of price holding. Profit-taking is underway but lacks the intensity of classic cycle tops, research says. Bitcoin (BTC) retargeted $106,000 after the June 3 Wall Street open…
The U.S. Senate may be fast approaching a final vote on regulating stablecoins, which would be a high-water mark for crypto legislation in Congress, but Representative French Hill said the Senate’s bill has some key differences with a similar effort in the House of Representatives, and those would need to be ironed out before it…
Tokenized short-term funds, a new class of digital financial products bridging traditional and decentralized finance, have grown to reach $5.7 billion in assets since 2021, according to a new Moody’s report. The credit rating service sees growing interest from traditional asset managers, insurers, and brokerages looking to offer clients access between fiat and digital markets….
A representative of the Trump Organization said the group “knows nothing” about a crypto wallet project called the “$TRUMP Wallet,” despite the app’s branding and claims being tied to the U.S. president. “The Trump Organization knows nothing about this project,” a spokesperson for the Trump Organization told CoinDesk. The app, according to its sparse but…