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The concept of a bitcoin mining death spiral has been around for many years. The basic idea is a large number of bitcoin miners may stop mining at nearly the same time because their activity is no longer profitable. Due to the way the…

Cryptopia homepage, January 16, 2019 New Zealand police are investigating the hack of cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia, which resulted in “significant losses” that some estimate could amount to more than US$3.5 million.    Christchurch…

Over the past week or two, a story about Russia adding bitcoin to their foreign currency reserves has been reported in a variety of media outlets such as The Daily Telegraph, Fortune, and ZeroHedge. All of these stories cite Vladislav…

While the Lightning Network is mostly known as a way to make Bitcoin payments instant and practically free, another often-touted aspect of the layer-two protocol has been its ability to enable a sort of decentralized exchange as a side…

Image: Cliche Hacker and Binary Code, Wikipedia After being removed from Twitter and Reddit, the Dark Overlord Hacking group’s account has been taken off of Steemit. It is unclear at this time if the decision came from Steemit or the…

The end of 2018 wrapped up what has been one of the worst year’s for the crypto market, with Bitcoin dropping to its lowest levels for the year. But as we enter the first full working week of 2019, what can the market expect throughout the…

In a recent video posted to The Rubin Report YouTube channel, host Dave Rubin and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson announced they would both be leaving Patreon on January 15th. Throughout the thirty-minute video, Rubin and Peterson…

Today mark’s the 10th anniversary of Bitcoin’s Genesis block, signalling the launch of what has become the number one cryptocurrency. On the 3rd January, 2009, the network began with what is known as the Genesis block or block 0. To…

Finding reliable metrics in the cryptocurrency market is hard. This was the main talking point during a trio of talks at November’s Consensus Invest conference around strategies related to measuring and comparing various crypto assets. “We…

In October, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a speech regarding the need to fight back against the “data industrial complex” and create new federal regulations in the United States for protecting consumers’ digital privacy. During this speech, Cook…