DigitalBTC Dissolves Bitcoin Mining Agreement with CloudHashing
Australian bitcoin company digitalBTC has dissolved a supply agreement with cloud mining service CloudHashing. Under the agreement, which was finalised in March, CloudHashing was to run digitalBTC hardware in data centres in Iceland and Texas to mine bitcoins. Today, however, digitalBTC announced that it was pulling out of the deal, filing an announcement with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that stated the companies had agreed to dissolve the supply deal. Under the settlement, CloudHashing's shares in digitalBTC are to be cancelled. The announcement states: "The settlement....
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