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Finance

Binance's Crypto Mining Pool Adds Ravencoin Support

Former Ethereum miners have been drawn to alternative coins like ravencoin after they had to leave the Ethereum network post-merge.

Many Ethereum miners have yet to resettle into mining a different crypto token. (Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum Software Firm ConsenSys Co-Launches Ethereum Climate Platform

The initiative aims to address Ethereum’s excess energy consumption before it went through the Merge.

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Finance

Ex-Ethereum Miners Token Hop to Stay Alive After the Merge

Following the Ethereum Merge, only 20% of miners have switched to other proof-of-work networks.

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Vitalik Buterin's 'Proof of Stake': The CoinDesk Megareview

What a decade of essays – covering everything from Soulbound tokens to superrational DAOs – says about Ethereum and crypto.

DENVER, CO - FEBRUARY 18: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin speaks at ETHDenver on February 18, 2022 in Denver, Colorado. ETHDenver is the largest and longest running Ethereum Blockchain event in the world with more than 15,000 cryptocurrency devotees attending the weeklong meetup. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Videos

PoS Is a Better Hedge Against Inflation: Umee CEO

"In many ways, [proof-of-stake] is a better hedge against inflation," says Umee Founder and CEO Brent Xu. He adds that the argument for bitcoin as a hedge has been "disproven" in this high interest rate environment. He joins "First Mover" live from I.D.E.A.S. in New York City.

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Markets

Ethereum Miners’ $319M Crypto Hoard Hangs Over Market After Merge

Miners dumped over 16,000 ETH, worth more than $20 million, in the past week, on-chain data showed. The Ethereum miners still have about 245,000 ETH left – and no longer any business affiliation with the blockchain network.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Videos

Miner Chandler Guo Makes the Case for Backing Ethereum’s Fork

SEC’s plans for proof-of-stake regulation make Ethereum’s PoW fork even more attractive, says Chandler Guo. This story and other news shaping the cryptocurrency world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

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Tech

Evaluating Ethereum: 1 Week After the Merge

From validators to issuance to fees, here’s what Ethereum looks like now that the post-Merge dust is settling.

Más de 41.000 personas asistieron a la fiesta virtual de la Fundación Ethereum para hacer la cuenta regresiva y ser testigos de la fusión. (Canal de YouTube de la Fundación Ethereum)

Videos

Celo Co-Founder Predicts PoW Blockchains Will Get Phased Out

Ethereum and previous proof-of-stake networks have shown "that you can build secure, robust and scalable networks," Celo co-founder Marek Olszewski says. "Why keep proof-of-work?"

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