Daniel is a data scientist who enjoys writing bitcoin and financial content. He is the co-founder of Green Candle Investments, a bitcoin and finance media company.
Former Chief Strategy Officer at Blockstream, Samson Mow, appeared on CNBC on Tuesday alongside Gabor Gurbacs of VanEck and Deirdre Bosa to discuss “The Role of Crypto During Geopolitical Unrest.” The trio discussed Bitcoin’s apolitical and censorship resistant nature and how it’s value proposition has become clear over
Ryan Petersen, CEO of global logistics platform Flexport, posted to Twitter on Monday that the company holds a non-zero amount of Bitcoin on their $1.6B balance sheet. The post was in response to a comment on an earlier thread asking what percentage of the portfolio was “hard money (aka
Information included in a recent SEC filing from Bitcoin mining company GRIID revealed details about Intel’s second generation “Bonanza Mine” Bitcoin miner. The mining system, referred to as BMZ2, apparently provides 135 TH/s at 3510W, with an efficiency of 26 J/THs. The miner is priced at nearly
Global self-mining Bitcoin company Bitfarms (NASDAQ: BITF) announced last week that they had entered into a $32M financing deal with crypto-financial services company BlockFi. Under the terms of the agreement, Bitfarms entered into a two-year, 14.5% interest rate, equipment loan for the purchase of 6,100 Bitmain S19j Pro
In a speech at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this week, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz came out unequivocally in favor of Bitcoin. In his speech, he claimed he was bullish, at least in part, because “it is decentralized and uncontrollable.” He added that political parties taking anti-Bitcoin
On Wednesday, German media outlet BTC-ECHO reported that the European Parliament (a legislative branch of the European Union) finalized a new draft of their Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCA) framework. According to the report, the new draft proposes a ban on “environmentally unsustainable consensus mechanisms” like the Proof-of-Work (PoW) protocol used
On Tuesday, the Bitfury Group - one of the world’s leading Bitcoin mining technology companies - announced that they were launching a new mining center in Sarnia, Ontario. The facility is already operational and is expected to reach a capacity of 16MW by the end of February and 28MW
In January, a title listed in the program for the 2022 International Solid State Circuit Conference caught a few eyes in the Bitcoin world. The title was “Bonanza Mine: An Ultra-Low-Voltage Energy-Efficient Bitcoin Mining ASIC,” and it caught a few eyes because it was being presented by technology giant, Intel.
