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BitMart Exchange, a premier global digital asset trading platform, recently announced their “Vote for Your Coin – Round 5” campaign. As before, BitMart is cooperating with Atlas Protocol [ATP] to provide a voting campaign utilizing blockchain interaction. 10 projects have been selected among hundreds of projects to participate in this ... read more

Having banned the exchanges where cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are traded, the Chinese government is now cracking down on the plants where such currencies are mined. The Yingjiang Administration Bureau for Industry and Commerce, which enforces enterprises and consumer protection laws, issued a notification to the Bitcoin mining facilities operating in ... read more

Some miners are relocating to places where the availability of hydroelectric power and cooler climates offer rock-bottom electricity prices. Others are exploring green options like solar panels and turbines to power their mining machines. And here the DMG blockchain has created their own electricity infrastructure to power their crypto mining ... read more

DMG Blockchain Solutions has announced that it has started generating up to 60 megawatts (MW) of electricity at an 85MW substation it owns in western Canada. It will use the substation to power its flagship cryptocurrency mining facility, which is one of the largest such sites in the country by power output.  ... read more

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Paraguay’s Itaipú Dam, one of the largest hydroelectric facilities in the world, is supporting bitcoin and ethereum mining in a city on the country’s border with Brazil and Argentina. These efforts have already spawned a number of new cryptocurrency businesses, creating multiple millionaires, but an ongoing reassessment of the dam’s developmental ... read more

A report published today has stated that mining $1 worth of Bitcoin requires more electricity than mining almost any material traditionally dug from the earth. The authors state that between three million and 15 million tons of carbon emissions have been caused by the sector over the last two years. ... read more

BTC is poised to make its Ethereum debut. An initiative involving several decentralized exchanges (DEXs) as well as crypto-custodians Bitgo will introduce ”BTC-backed” WBTC, with the W standing for “wrapped.” When WBTC launches in January 2019, it will enable ethereum-based ”bitcoin” to be traded on DEXs, boosting liquidity and opening ... read more