Not a minor adjustment: Bitcoin mining difficulty soars 13.5% to new ATH
There is no bear market for the builders of the Bitcoin network as more and more Bitcoin miners are joining the network, driving up the difficulty.
Subjecting workers to webcam monitoring violates privacy, Dutch court rules
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Florida-headquartered company has been ordered to pay about €75,000 (around $73,000) in compensation and other fees after firing a Netherlands-based remote worker who refused to keep their webcam on all day, NL Times reports. The company, Chetu, said the unnamed employee was required to attend a virtual … Read more
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Surges to All-Time High, Putting Additional Squeeze on Miners
Bitcoin mining difficult has soared by 13.55% to 35.6 trillion, its largest one-day rise since May, 2021, according to data from btc.com.
First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Stable Around $19K as Inflation, Earnings Haunt Traditional Markets
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Oct. 7, 2022. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
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Transit Finance Hacker Returns $2.74M to Victims, Sends $686K to Tornado Cash
A hacker that swindled cross-bridge DeFi Protocol Transit Finance out of $28.9 million has agreed to return $2.74 million to victims.
Trendsi secures $25M to help sellers and manufacturers predict demand
In the traditional business-to-business world, sellers often don’t know how much of a product they should order. Even at well-run companies, anywhere from 20% to 30% of inventory is either dead (i.e. doesn’t sell) or obsolete, according to one source. The impact on profitability can be quite severe. Dead stock costs sellers and manufacturers as … Read more
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Crypto and Payments Firm MobileCoin Launches New Stablecoin – ‘Electronic Dollars’
The company says Electronic Dollars (eUSD) will be “the first data-protecting stablecoin.”
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Samsung seeks smart TV growth with first Tizen OS licensing deals
Samsung has confirmed the first third-party smart TV makers to ship with its Tizen operating system (OS), with several manufacturers preparing to launch Tizen-powered TVs this year across Europe and Australasia. Tizen, for the uninitiated, is a Linux-based OS hosted by the Linux Foundation for more than a decade, though Samsung has been the primary … Read more
Upcoming Call of Duty has annoying phone number verification requirement
Modern Warfare II releases October 28th. | Image: Activision Blizzard Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II will require players to register with a phone number on Battle.net to play the game, in order to make players responsible for their actions. The game is set for release later this month on October 28th. It’s a repeat … Read more
UAE Web3 ecosystem houses almost 1.5K active organizations: Report
A new report shows that 65% of the 1,450 Web3 organizations are based on native blockchain technology, while 35% of the organizations are based on non-native technology.
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Back to Square One? Circle’s USDC Market Cap Drops Below $50B for First Time Since Terra’s Collapse
USDC’s utility has taken a hit in the wake of Binance’s decision to consolidate order books and Circle’s decision to freeze addresses associated with Tornado Cash.
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Google removes The OG App from the Play Store as founders think about next steps
Almost a week after Apple removed The OG App from the App Store, an Instagram client that promised to provide an ad-free and suggestion-free feed, Google followed the suit and booted the app off the Play Store. In a Twitter thread, co-founders of Un1feed, the company that published The OG App, said that the startup … Read more
How to learn Web3 development for beginners
One can learn Web3 development by joining a Web3 developer DAO, participating in a Web3 hackathon or enrolling in blockchain-related courses.
Turkey works hard to make İstanbul home to global blockchain hype
The Turkish crypto and blockchain ecosystem is working hard to build during the bear market, according to local experts.
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Biggest mining difficulty spike in 14 months — 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week
Macro forces are brewing, while Bitcoin network fundamentals defy the bears — which side will win out when it comes to BTC price action?