Korea's 'poop-coin' project got flushed in February, inventor reveals
There wasn't enough interest in the project, and it wasn't able to stand on its own, the Korean professor behind the Beevi project said. The South Korean government has put the lid on a science program that created toilets designed to turn human waste into electricity, heat, and digital currency.The Science Walden project was revealed in July 2021 to the amusement of the crypto community and the wider public alike — introducing the “BeeVi” toilet which turned human excrement into methane gas and rewarded its “depositors” with a digital currency called Ggool.Speaking to Cointelegraph,....
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Data shows the Bitcoin crash from a few days ago flushed out $5.4 billion from futures open interest within the matter of hours. Cascade Of Long Liquidations Lead To 24.5% Reduction In Futures Open Interest As per the latest weekly report from Glassnode, when the price of Bitcoin crashed down to $42k a few days […]
Crypto analytics provider Glassnode argues the late February BTC crash may have been a healthy reset that flushed excessive leverage out of the market. According to on-chain analytics provider, Glassnode, the late-February crypto market correction may have purged excessive leverage from the markets.On March 1, Glassnode published a report analyzing the recent crypto crash — which was only the second significant crypto correction since the markets pushed into new record highs in late 2020.Glassnode noted the crash peaked with a 25% fall from the local top of $58,300 to $43,343. As such, the....
In what has become a staple of the Inside Bitcoins conferences, leading Bitcoin experts will be judging the demos of five companies from South Korea in this year's Startup Competition. The event takes place at 3 p.m. Korea Standard Time on December 10. The companies taking part are Bitholla, KoreanBuddy, WageCan, Epsilon Technologies and Coin Trade. The judges are Simon Dixon, Andrew "Flip" Filipowski, Hans Lombardo and Roger Ver. As a whole, the South Korean bitcoin ecosystem is relatively small when compared to nearby countries such as China and Hong Kong. "Bitcoin exchange in South....