Bitcoin price flies solo? Institutional crypto push may be overrated
Bitcoin’s market cap broke the $1 trillion barrier without a final push from institutions — could their influence be overrated? In the history of financial markets, there are only a few tradable assets that have conquered this frontier. Currently, Bitcoin has the eighth-highest market cap among all tradable assets in the world, including equities and commodities. Among the top 10 exchange-tradable assets, it sits right above Tencent, which Bitcoin flipped on its eventual surge past the $1 trillion mark, below which stands Facebook, which was flipped earlier this month.Bitcoin is only one....
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PRESS RELEASE. IMCoin, known as the first Hybridcoin, closes a week with a record price increase in its history reaching a value of 1.83 USD per token. The IMC price is the result of the number of tokens sold divided by the balance of the audited reserve fund, which already has 417 days of history. This week IMC reached a total of 19,028,319 tokens sold and a reserve or underlying fund of $34,777,399. The goal of IMC is to reach the end of the year with a value of 2 USD and to continue at this rate seems an achievable goal. The objective of IMCoin is to be the first Hybridcoin on the....
The American economist and member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Christopher Waller, believes blockchain technology is “totally overrated,” even though the U.S. central bank “put a lot of resources into understanding digital currencies and the blockchain.” On Friday, Waller spoke during a panel that discussed central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and said that CBDC white papers were similar to “infomercials.” Fed Governor Insists: ‘These Things Aren’t Payment Instruments at All’ On Friday, a virtual panel made up....
A solo Bitcoin miner has struck gold after successfully claiming a $200,000 block reward. The considerable achievement has captured the attention of fellow miners and crypto enthusiasts, highlighting the potential for lone miners to effectively compete with larger mining operations Lone Bitcoin Miner Hits Jackpot On October 28, a software engineer of Bitcoin CGMiner and an admin of Solo Ckpool, Dr. Con Kolivas congratulated a lone Bitcoin miner in an X (formerly Twitter) post for accomplishing a rare milestone by solving the 278th solo block at Solo Ckpool. Related Reading: Crypto....
Mining bitcoin without any help from a larger pool has become an increasingly-improbable feat over the last decade. Another Bitcoin (BTC) miner from the Solo CK mining pool has solo mined a new block on the Bitcoin blockchain, earning a block reward of 6.25 BTC (over $220,000 at current prices) as a result. The event took place on Monday at a block height of 720,175.Solo mining consists of attempting to validate blocks by a single miner, without teaming efforts with other miners on a mining pool, and running a full blockchain node. Without significant hashing capabilities, the odds of....
Small-time bitcoin miners are making headlines for essentially hitting the jackpot by mining full blocks all on their own. In what has become a modern-day ‘gold rush’, bitcoin enthusiasts are now taking to booting up small USB miners will tiny hash rates to try their luck in what is eerily similar to buying lottery tickets. Among the miners who have rushed to this, a few have hit the ultimate prize. Solo Bitcoin Miner Gets Full Block In an unlikely event, a solo miner was able to mine a full bitcoin block with a low hash rate. This was made public by Dr. Kolivas, a software engineer that....