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El Salvador to Mine Bitcoin With Energy From Volcanoes: ‘100% Clean, 100% Renewable, 0 Emissions’

El Salvador has begun exploring bitcoin mining using energy from its volcanoes, President Nayib Bukele has revealed. “Our engineers just informed me that they dug a new well that will provide approximately 95MW of 100% clean, 0 emissions geothermal energy from our volcanos,” he detailed. Bitcoin Mining Using Volcanoes’ Energy El Salvador President Nayib Bukele […]

Online Pseudonym Parties fully implemented half a year ago, and game theory around “proof-of-unique-human”

In my own opinion, Ethereum project collapsed a bit when the majority of the validators chose to break the hash chain continuity in 2016, and chose to create something like a (very complicated) second genesis block on block number 1920000. And that since then, it's been whoever shouts the loudest that gets attention. This is…
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Google reversing crypto ads ban a testament to blockchain market maturity?

Since 2018, tech giant Google has been in an on-and-off relationship with crypto, but can the latest favorable outlook stick?

The global corporate tax rate: crypto savior or killer?

The newly proposed global tax rules will drastically influence all international companies, with crypto being a target as well.

Why do some projects like to have their liquidity staked?

Help me understand this. I provide liquidity for project X with an ETH pairing at 50:50 X/ETH on Uniswap. In return I receive LP-Tokens for 50:50 X/ETH that represent the value of my liquidity + fees earned. I will need these LP-Tokens to pull out my liquidity + fees earned at any given time and…
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USDT vs USDC: Which is better, trustworthy and more secure to have?

Hey there fellow ethereans, I have been hearing that Tether has regulatory issues quite often and is not secure. So, is USDC an alternative better choice? If not, which would be the best and most promising stablecoin? Please help. I'm looking for one which is on a scaled blockchain like Solana, etc. to reduce the…
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Pornhub just saved a lot of my crypto

So about 20 minutes ago, I got a "hey, did you fly to Germany overnight?" Unauthorized login email from pornhub. Checked it, sure enough someone logged in with my password. Don't give two shits about someone watching porn on my account, so I immediately went to work on the rest. I don't share passwords with…
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Bitcoin part of highest risk category in Basel's new bank capital plan

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision proposed tough requirements for banks that want to hold cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

Community Governance Proposal: Increase Karma Requirements for Commenting

This proposal is on behalf of u/that_one_indian_dude, you can see their original proposal and reasoning in r/CryptoCurrencyMeta here. ​ Currently we require 50 comment karma and a minimum account age of 30 days to comment in r/CryptoCurrency. In order to submit a post, we require 500 comment karma and an account age of at least…
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