MEXC, the world’s leading cryptocurrency trading platform, announced the listing of the Berachain (BERA), scheduled for February 6, 2025, at 13:00 (UTC). The launch on MEXC will be accompanied by Airdrop+ rewards of 19,100 BERA and 50,000 USDT. Berachain began…
Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms (RIOT) finds itself a target of a second activist investor, with Reuters reporting investment management giant D.E. Shaw as having taken an unspecified stake. The move by D.E. Shaw, which manages $70 billion in assets, comes…
Bitcoin mining operations in Paducah, Kentucky, are drawing substantial electrical resources, per recent municipal disclosures. Local utility provider Paducah Power identifies two bitcoin mining firms among its 10 largest industrial electricity consumers. As detailed in a report by the West…
Digital Currency Group (DCG) is spinning off the self-mining unit of its Foundry subsidiary into a separate business called Fortitude Mining that will mine crypto across a range of digital assets, the company said Wednesday. What makes Fortitude Mining different…
Leading asset manager VanEck plans to boost its investments into Bitcoin miners amid President Donald Trump’s pro-crypto push. Throughout the run-up to the 2024 presidential elections and the days that have followed, President Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear…
MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor hinted at a potential strategic shift in a post on X on Wednesday, just a day after the company announced a temporary halt to its Bitcoin acquisition plans. Saylor posted on X on February 5, calling…
Updated Jan 31, 2025, 2:41 p.m. UTCPublished Feb 5, 2025, 8:55 a.m. UTC Blockstream, the crypto company co-founded by legendary bitcoin (BTC) developer Adam Back, is expanding its global presence with the opening of a new office in Tokyo, the company said…
Feb 4, 2025, 9:03 p.m. UTC Taproot Wizards has raised $30 million with which it plans to build an ecosystem of applications using the OP_CAT Bitcoin improvement proposal (BIP). OP_CAT is a feature that Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder Satoshi Nakamoto included in…
Feb 4, 2025, 6:09 p.m. UTC Solana-focused Canadian investment company Sol Strategies purchased 40,300 SOL between Jan. 19 and Jan. 31, for approximately $9.9 million at an average price of $246.53 per token. The Toronto-based company, which runs three mainnet Solana…
Healthcare technology firm Semler Scientific has expanded its Bitcoin holdings, acquiring 871 BTC for $88.5 million over the past few weeks. According to a Feb. 4 press release, Semler purchased Bitcoin between Jan. 11 and Feb. 3 at an average…