After a difficulty adjustment lower last week, miners seem to be back in the game, with Bitcoin’s hash rate nearing an all-time high again. It could mean that the miner capitulation is over, setting possibly the stage for long-term growth to continue. 🚀
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A crypto nightmare come true
A record Ethereum transaction fee has been paid today: $2.6 million to transfer $134. The user probably mixed up the fields on the value of the transfer and the fee, paying 10,668 ETH in fees, or $2.6 million, on a transaction mined by Sparkpool.
Buy Coke with
Bitcoin
Over 2,000 Coca-Cola vending machines in Australia and New Zealand have started accepting Bitcoin, thanks to an agreement between Coca-Cola
Amatil and Centrapay. Coca-Cola Amatil is a major bottler and distributor in the Asia Pacific, supporting 140 brands. Let’s hope they will introduce the new payment solution to the rest of the world.
Trump’s new banking regulator is a Bitcoin bull
The new Comptroller, Brian Brooks, had just become the new top banking regulator for the Trump administration. Previously he worked as a general counsel to crypto powerhouse Coinbase. Trump’s new acting Comptroller of the Currency says blockchain is not the problem — blockchain is the solution to our problems.
Two-thirds of traders would leave Coinbase due to mounting privacy concerns
66% of traders who use Coinbase are willing to leave the platform following reports that the U.S. exchange plans to sell user data to two government agencies for $250,000. What's your opinion on this?
