Bitcoin miners can prove green potential by undergoing ESG ratings check
Bitcoin miners may opt for ESG ratings to prove “greenness” as environmental concerns loom over the entire crypto industry. Environmental concerns regarding the energy-intensive, proof-of-work (PoW) mechanism that Bitcoin (BTC) uses to produce new coins and verify transactions have been front and center lately. Debates regarding Bitcoin’s energy use particularly surged following a tweet sent out by Tesla CEO Elon Musk in May saying that his company would no longer accept Bitcoin payments due to the network’s “increasingly rapid use of fossil fuels.”Since then, a number of ways Bitcoin....
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Gryphon has doled out $48 million to buy Bitmain’s latest Bitcoin mining hardware set for release in the summer. Gryphon Digital Mining has signed a purchase agreement with Bitcoin (BTC) mining equipment maker Bitmain to purchase 7,200 Antminer S19J Pro mining rigs.According to a release issued on Thursday, the entire outlay for the mining inventory amounts to about $48 million. Starting in August 2021, Bitmain will deliver 600 mining rigs to Gryphon each month as part of the deal. The Antminer S19J Pro is the latest iteration of Bitmain’s Bitcoin mining hardware slated for release into....
Is El Salvador ’s decision to use Bitcoin as legal tender a risky proposition? Probably so. And now, we have the expert opinion of credit rating provider Fitch Ratings to prove it. To be fair, most of what they say is true. Bitcoin is volatile. At first, all businesses will probably exchange the BTC they […]
The Credora Network announced its collaboration with Morpho, an Ethereum-built decentralized lending protocol, to bring third-party risk ratings to the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) landscape. Related Reading: Taiwan Outlines Crypto Regulations: Seeks Public Feedback On ‘Virtual Asset Service Act’ Draft Credora Network’s Risk Ratings Arrive At Morpho On Thursday, the Credora Network launched Risk Ratings on […]
On-chain shows Bitcoin miners have been in a phase of distribution recently, a sign that could prove to be bearish for the price of the crypto. Bitcoin Miner Reserve Observes Downtrend As Miners Look To Dump As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the latest selling from BTC miners may force the […]
The crypto exchange and finance platform said it got high ratings for privacy and security using standards developed by a U.S. government agency.