President Biden plans to issue an executive order next week that will require government agencies to begin assessing cryptocurrency and other digital assets. Additionally, the order mentions looking into the creation of a central bank digital currency. These assessments will provide a framework for the Biden Administration’s goal of

Hut 8 Mining Corporation Highlights for January 2022  * 2.36 EH/s hash rate * 308 BTC mined, with an average production rate of 9.93 BTC per day   * 5,826 total BTC held  Hut 8 Mining Corp recently released its January 2022 mining results along with its monthly update. Compared

Core Scientific January highlights * 1,077 bitcoin produced  * 6,373 total bitcoin held as of 1/31 * 7.5 EH/s with over 75,000 active miners Core Scientific, Inc released their monthly mining report showcasing a triple-digit increase over the year prior. The company mined a total of 1,

Fidelity International has recently announced the launch of a Bitcoin exchange traded product (ETP) to be listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and Germany’s Xetra digital stock exchange.   ETPs are similar to stocks but carry a much smaller financial price point than other options such as mutual funds. The

On Wednesday’s episode of “On the Margin,” Blockworks co-founder Michael Ippolito sat down with Greg Foss, Jeff Booth, and Alex Gladstein to discuss Bitcoin’s role in the ongoing Canadian Freedom Convoy protests. Throughout the episode, they discuss financial censorship, concentration of government power, and Bitcoin as a nonpartisan

Eun Young Choi is a seasoned prosecutor serving nearly a decade in multiple departments, primarily as a Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General. During the announcement Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division said that the NCET will focus on crime involving

De Beukelaer was the first European politician to convert his entire salary in 2022 while he puts his entire 5,500 monthly salary into Bitcoin on the first of every month. This move was in hope to raise awareness about Bitcoin and alternative monetary models, financial education and to get

The Verkhovna Rada (Supreme Council of Ukraine) passed a virtual assets law on February 17th, 2022 that allows the country’s citizens to trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Out of the 450 deputies, 272 voted to pass the law.  In a prior bill from October of 2021, President Volodymyr Zelensky