Blockchain Bites: Sustainability and Uncertainty as Crypto Crosses $1T Benchmark

Bitcoin crossed the $11,000 threshold, central banks enumerate "core principles" for a CBDC, Coinbase sees 60 employees walk.

Bitcoin’s price keeps climbing amid election uncertainty. A Russia power provider looks to crypto mining. Coinbase eyes Japan.

ALSO: ShapeShift delists three privacy coins citing regulatory uncertainty and $3 billion in blockchain bonds come to market on Friday.

This special edition of Blockchain Bites covers everything you need to know from invest: ethereum economy and the news from elsewhere in the cryptoverse.

Hass McCook is a chartered engineer and freshly minted Oxford MBA. He has been researching bitcoin over the past several months and recently joined the Lifeboat Foundation's New Money Systems advisory board. Here, in the first in a series of articles on bitcoin's sustainability, he seeks to analyse the economic and environmental factors involved in the process of bitcoin mining. There has been a lot of uncertainty surrounding the sustainability of the bitcoin network, with this fascinating nascent technology facing several unsubstantiated claims that it is highly unsustainable from a....