Billionaire Bitcoiner slams UK tax system, leaves for Swiss Bitcoin city: Report

The largest publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies produced nearly $800 million worth of Bitcoin in the first quarter of 2025, reflecting continued growth across the sector as Bitcoin prices held near record highs. According to publicly available data compiled by Cointelegraph, the top Bitcoin mining companies produced over 9,700 Bitcoin (BTC) in the first quarter.

Blockin, the parent company of one of popular Bitcoin (BTC) mining pools, Poolin, is launching a new block explorer on April 6. The explorer includes mempool statistics that would help users decide the correct fee to send their BTC payment.Blockin’s explorer provides many of the standard features shared with competing offerings, like block data, transaction…

Ethereum Classic gets a major upgrade in July. Here’s how it will save users on gas fees. 2263 Total views 3 Total shares On Monday, developers of the Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain announced a hard fork to implement the project’s latest version, now scheduled for launch in late July.The upgrade, which the community has dubbed…

Tech Mahindra, the IT subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Mahindra Group, has become the first Indian business to use R3’s blockchain-based Marco Polo Network for conducting cross-border transactions.It said the platform had resulted in faster reconciliation and ambiguity resolution, as well as the significant reduction of paperwork and time required for the entire transaction cycle.Tech Mahindra…

Bitcoin (BTC) critic and general manager at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Agustin Carstens advised against the issuance of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in a speech in Dublin on March 22. Bloomberg reported on the speech the same day.Per the report, Carstens explained that a CBDC could facilitate a bank run, enabling people…

Over the past week, altcoin Ripple’s (XRP) price has gone through the roof. It has seen an unprecedented 140 percent growth over the past seven days, up almost 63 percent in the past 24 hours alone, trading at around $0.61 at press time.XRP has gone as far as to beat Ethereum (ETH) to be ranked…

The service will simplify node infrastructure and onboarding for blockchain developers. 261 Total views 1 Total shares According to a new announcement on Thursday, tech-giant Google says it's launching an in-house Blockchain Node Engine (BNE) based on Google Cloud. As a node-hosting service, BNE enables Web 3.0 companies to relay transactions, deploy smart contracts, and…

Wednesday, Feb. 27 — most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting very slight gains and losses on the day by press time. Bitcoin (BTC) is approaching the $3,900 mark again, according to CoinMarketCap data.Market visualization from Coin360At press time, Bitcoin is up less than half a percent on the day, trading at around $3,859, according…