How BTCST Provides In-demand Exit Options for Bitcoin Miners
The world is in search of yield. As central banks continue to print more and more fiat currency, people are being forced to look to alternative assets in the name of wealth preservation and growth. Nowhere is this more true than in the cryptocurrency space, where DeFi projects built on top of Ethereum have exploded […]
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BTCST earnings per staked token increased after China cracked down on Bitcoin miners and the network’s hashrate dropped. China’s ongoing crackdown on Bitcoin (BTC) mining resulted in a mass relocation of mining operations out of the country and it has led to a more than fifty percent drawdown in the Bitcoin network hashrate from an all-time high of 197.9 exahash per second (ehash/s) on April 15 to its current rate at 97 ehash/s. Bitcoin network mean hash rate. Source: GlassnodeOne token that was hit especially hard by the hashrate drop was the Bitcoin Standard Hashrate Token (BTCST), a....
Trendon Shavers, the man who the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said was running a bitcoin Ponzi scheme, has been ordered to pay a $40 million dollar fine by U. S. Magistrate Judge Amos L. Mazzant for his founding of the "Bitcoin Savings and Trust (BTCST)" organization, which was nothing more than a scam for its users. From a complaint filed by the SEC last year (as noted by Inside Bitcoins): From at least September 2011 to September 2012, Shavers, operating under the Internet name "pirateat40," offered and sold BTCST investments over the Internet, raising more than 700,000 BTC....
Standard Hashrate is launching TAU, an algorithmic asset protocol backed by Bitcoin hash rate. A group of Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies have put their weight behind Standard Hashrate and its recently launched TAU Protocol, a synthetic asset platform using hashrate derivatives for its peg mechanism.Announced on Friday, the TAU project aims to create algorithmic versions of Bitcoin and other Proof-of-Work assets through a revisited rebase mechanism. The basic concept is similar to simple rebase coins, including the synthetic Bitcoin offered by Badger. The TAU protocol, however, adds a....
A judge in Texas has ruled that bitcoin is a currency or form of money, which gives the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) the go-ahead to sue Ponzi scheme operator Trendon Shavers. A document signed by US magistrate judge Amos L. Mazzant details the SEC's case against Shavers, founder and operator of Bitcoin Savings and Trust (BTCST), formerly known as First Pirate Savings & Trust. Shavers enticed people to invest in BTCST with the promise of 1% interest per day. Some investors suffered losses, totalling 263,104 BTC, which equates to around $25 million, based on current exchange....
A Texas man charged with defrauding consumers through an illicit investment vehicle has been ordered to pay more than $40m in fines by a federal judge. The Thursday ruling brought to close a case launched last July that drew headlines at a time when many in the mainstream US media were only first learning about bitcoin and its related technology. Trendon Shavers, the founder and operator of Bitcoin Savings and Trust (BTCST) had reportedly accrued more than 700,000 BTC in customer funds, worth roughly $64m at the time of his arrest. US Magistrate Judge Amos Mazzant wrote: "The uncontested....