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The Aspiring Answers to Bitcoin’s Enormous Energy Footprint

Following a tweet from Elon Musk highlighting Tesla’s suspension of bitcoin payment acceptance due to sky-high energy needs, the industry quickly responded by highlighting the capable solutions that already address this drawback. Musk’s Comments Conveniently Ignore Reality of Blockchain Innovation Ever the commentator on all things crypto, Elon Musk took to Twitter on May 13th […]

Elon Musk and BTC

So obviously the problem here is not the energy that bitcoin uses. Everybody knows about the terrible life of lithium miners (often children), the environmental impact that batteries have ecc. Probably he found out that bitcoin is actually not the best crypto to invest in it. More likely, i am convinced that elon musk has…
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Setting up mining PC.

Hey All, I've got my mind set to mining some ravencoin but i need some help setting up. I have an old obsolete win 10 PC and a NVIDIA Quadro 6000. Fist of all let me say i know the quadro's are severely bottlenecked and i'm not in for the proffit just for making a…
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Proof of Work VS Proof of Stake

Which will win in the future ? With recent Musk tweet, it seems like more people might vouch for the proof of stake Cryptos rather than proof of work. It also helps that proof of stake cryptos will help and will be more biased towards the Financial Behemoths much more so that they can profit…
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Official Remittances to Nigeria Plummet by Almost 40% in a Year When Crypto Use Surged

According to the latest data from the World Bank, international money transfers into Nigeria dropped by nearly 40% from $23.8 billion recorded in 2019 to $17.2 billion in the past year. Yet despite this fall, remittances, which account for 4% of the country’s GDP, still remain an important source of foreign exchange for the oil-rich […]

Dear newbies, are you confused about trading pairs on exchanges? I got you covered.

Today alone, I've seen two posts from newbies asking about why there are multiple trading pairs for a coin they are interestede i and which one they should chose. I completely understand that, I was confused about that in the beginning as well. Let me try to explain. On exchanges like Binance, for some coins…
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Mining pool and rewards plan with the difficulty going down ?

I have a gtx 1650 and i mine using T-rex on ravenminer with pps payout. I get about 10 rvn per day. I wonder if with the difficulty going down should i switch to pplns and which mining pool should i use with my 1650. I got 8.15 mh/s with the power set to 70%…
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Bitcoin 'held up very well' despite biggest exchange inflow since March 2020 crash

Bitcoin saw a real test of its market composition on Thursday amid a sea of liquidations reminiscent of the events from last year.

Scalability roadmap cheat sheet

There seems to be a lot of confusion about Ethereum's scalability going forward, partly due to evolving roadmaps and inconsistent communication by the distributed research and development teams. The biggest misconception I often see is that some magical thing called "Eth 2.0" will release and see gas prices plummet overnight on a given date –…
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Roast of the Top Coins

BTC – In the short span of just 50 years, we should be able to get everyone an opening LN transaction! ETH – Decentalized cumswaps and shiba moons. Basically the lottery all over again, but for millenials. BNB – Paid CEX is dirty, but it feels slightly less dirty if you use a BNB token…
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