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Finance

Former Wyoming Banking Commissioner Goes Web 3

Albert Forkner has joined crypto infrastructure company Fortress Blockchain Technologies.

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Tech

Bitcoin Miner Argo Blockchain 'Leans Toward' Designing Custom Miners With Intel Chips

Custom bitcoin mining rigs will allow miners to design their own machines instead of having to settle for ready-made ones from a duopoly of manufacturers.

Bitcoin mining ASICs submerged in immersion cooling liquid at a facility in South Spain. (Eliza Gkritsi)

Policy

Environmental Groups Call on US Government to Implement Stringent Bitcoin Mining Regulations

Local and national activists are banding together to limit what they consider are the industry's adverse effects on the environment.

Power plant in New York (2020 Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Finance

Cipher Raises Year Hashrate View While Cutting Power Guidance

The stock of the miner lost almost 50% of its value in one day.

Bitcoin mining rigs at Kryptovault's facility in Hønefoss, Norway. (Image credit: Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Policy

US, EU Members Among 60 Nations Calling for Open, Global Internet

The "Declaration for the Future of the Internet" calls for the network to return to its decentralized roots, and warns against Russia peeling off to form its own network.

The U.S. and EU members are among the 60 nations calling for an open internet. (E4C/Getty Images)

Policy

CFTC Sets May Roundtable to Weigh Ideas Sparked by FTX’s Derivatives Push

The May 25 discussion will consider direct clearing of derivatives as pitched by FTX.US.

Rostin Behnam, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

US Treasury Sanctions More North Korea-Linked ETH Wallets Over $600M Ronin Hack

The three new wallets join an Ethereum address added to the sanctions list last week.

(CoinDesk)

Finance

OpenSea Suspends Trading of Sand Vegas Casino Club NFTs

Gambling Apes NFTs promised a cut of the profits from casinos built on metaverse platforms and Web 2.

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