Tag: Winter
Argo Blockchain mines 25% less Bitcoin due to winter storm at Helios
Publicly-listed Bitcoin (BTC) mining company Argo Blockchain saw a significant drop in mining activity in December due to a winter storm in Texas.On J [...]
SuperRare cuts 30% of staff as growth slows during crypto winter
Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace SuperRare has announced a 30% staff-member cut as CEO John Crain explained that the firm mistakenly over-hired du [...]
Warm winter may lower energy bills later this year
Forecasts suggest bills for households may drop later in the year, although a rise in April remains certain.
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Natural Gas Slipping Below $4, As Warm Winter Keeps Downtrend On
Oil and Gas prices surged higher in spring this year as the conflict in Ukraine surged and the sentiment turned negative. Gas approached the $10 level [...]
‘Crypto winter’ won’t end in 2023 — Bitcoin advocate David Marcus
Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto will need until at least 2024 to "recover from the abuse of unscrupulous players," says one of the industry's best-known name [...]
Bitcoin Miners Got Crushed by Crypto Winter. 2023 May Bring More Pain
As margins continue to compress, miners will have to look at how they can participate in “demand response programs,” meaning selling power back to the [...]
Despite the Frost of Crypto Winter, The Wrapture Holders Kept Their Cool
Part social experiment, part community building exercise, holders of the project were given a set of rules that would ultimately determine their NFT's [...]
Bitcoin Drifts Lower as Crypto Winter Continues
In a CoinDesk TV First Mover interview, Martin Leinweber, digital asset product strategist at Market Vector Indexes, noted bitcoin's strength relative [...]
What caused power blackouts for millions in winter storm Elliott
Two-thirds of the US population faced snowstorms, high winds, or frigid winter weather over the Christmas holiday weekend, leading to at least 52 d [...]
Near Project’s Octopus Network lays off 40% of its staff amid crypto winter
Octopus Network, a decentralized app chain network natively built on NEAR Protocol, has announced that it will be “refactoring” to adapt to current ma [...]
Bitcoin Miners Powered Off as Winter Storm Battered North America
The practice, known as curtailment, is touted as a way for miners to help electricity grids. They miners' steady demand that ensures power producers a [...]
Crypto Winter Isn’t Chilling VCs From Investing in Web3, Says PitchBook Analyst
“You're gonna really see a bifurcation,” he said. “You know, over the last 18 months everyone was investing in the crypto space, whether it's crypto-n [...]
Biden administration makes at-home Covid tests available for free again this winter
Take home COVID-19 self testing kits provided by the District of Columbia government, which provides city residents four free take home tests per day, [...]
U.S. Will Offer Free At-Home Covid Tests as Part of Winter Plan
With cases on the rise, the Biden administration said it would restart a program that provided hundreds of millions of tests through the Postal Servic [...]
New OECD report takes lessons from crypto winter, faults ‘financial engineering’
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) analyzed the crypto winter in a new policy paper titled “Lessons from the crypto wint [...]