Zack Voell

Zack Voell is a financial writer with extensive experience in cryptocurrency research and technical writing. He has previously worked with leading cryptocurrency data and technology firms, including Messari and Blockstream. His work (and tweets) has appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, The Independent and more. He owns bitcoin.

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Markets

Nearly $360M in Bitcoin Moved to Ethereum in October Despite DeFi Cool-Off

October’s growth is less than half of September’s 68,000 newly tokenized bitcoins.

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Riot Blockchain Mined 222 Bitcoins in Q3

Riot reported a current mining capacity of 556 petahash per second.

Bitcoins mined per quarter by Riot since Q2 2018

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Spot Markets, Not Leverage, Fuel Bitcoin's Price Rally Amid Mild Derivative Liquidations

Derivatives' role in bitcoin's rally is "muted" this time, said one trader.

Bitcoin price and futures daily liquidated positions on BitMEX since January 2020.

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Hive Blockchain Buys, Deploys 1,240 Bitcoin Mining Machines, Nearly Doubling Hash Power

The Vancouver firm is targeting 1,000 PH/s in the next 12 months.

Hive Blockchain ASIC purchases in 2020

Markets

DeFi Sell-Off Continues as Index Futures Retrace to June Levels

DeFi indices on FTX and Binance continue to plummet.

DeFi index futures on FTX and Binance

Tech

Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Sees Largest Percentage Drop in 9 Years

Bitcoin's mining difficulty just recorded its largest percentage decrease since the advent of ASIC mining machines in late 2012.

Negative difficulty adjustments in Bitcoin's history

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Decentralized Exchange Volume Dropped 25% in October

A steeper decline was avoided by one record day for Uniswap and Curve.

Monthly decentralized exchange volume since Jan. 2019

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Bitcoin Mining Firm Hut 8 Appoints Jaime Leverton as CEO

Interim CEO Jimmy Vaiopoulos will return to his role as CFO.

Jaime Leverton (Hut 8)

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Bitcoin Miners Saw 8% Revenue Increase in October

12% of revenue came from fees, the highest percentage since January 2018.

Bitcoin fees as a percentage of monthly miner revenue since Jan. 2016

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Hxro, FTX Target Retail Crypto Traders With Simplified Options Product

Hxro and FTX have partnered to make options trading more accessible for retail traders.

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