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Renewable energy will not solve Bitcoin’s (BTC) sustainability problem according to a blockchain specialist at Big Four auditing company PwC, Alex de Vries. De Vries presented his argument in a study published in sustainable energy journal Cell on March 14.The research cites estimates from de Vries’ website, according to which Bitcoin consumed anywhere from 40…

JPMorgan's ChatGPT rival, IndexGPT, will be used across various business units, including advertising, business consulting and various finance-focused software as a service (SAAS) services among others. 724 Total views 36 Total shares Finserv giant JPMorgan Chase filed a trademark application for IndexGPT, marking its entry into the race to build a generative AI tool for…

The coronavirus pandemic is transforming the education sector as much as it is transforming various important aspects of our lives. The majority of teaching and learning has been transferred to digital platforms as many cities remain in quarantine or begin to ease lockdown restrictions. But the education sector will never be the same again.What is…

Most days, there is little love lost between the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the world of crypto. As the regulator of the world’s largest capital market, the commission’s continuing work to track down sales for tokens it considers unregistered securities has left a fair bit of the crypto market viewing the commission…

SiBAN president Obinna Iwuno stressed the necessity of establishing a forward-thinking regulatory framework to accelerate the infusion of blockchain technology into diverse sectors of the economy. 128 Total views 1 Total shares A stakeholder in the blockchain and fintech ecosystem has called on the federal government of Nigeria to implement regulations that will foster the

After having its banking ties slashed, crypto exchange Binance.US has revived its U.S. dollar on-ramp through a new partnership with MoonPay. 255 Total views 5 Total shares Two months after becoming a crypto-only platform, Binance.US has announced a new partnership with crypto payments firm MoonPay to allow users to buy the U.S. Dollar-pegged stablecoin Tether…

As much as $16 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) and ERC20 tokens were stolen in the recent hack of New Zealand exchange Cryptopia, according to an analysis from blockchain infrastructure firm Elementus, Jan. 20.Elementus’ findings and analysis were published under a week after Cryptopia first publicly announced its detection of the breach. As reported, the…

On Jan. 17, Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi, one of the largest players on the market, relaunched as a fully licensed platform in Japan after merging with the BitTrade exchange.Branching out to Japan, where compliance is valued and many regulatory measures are imposed for crypto players by domestic regulators, is a complex process. Here’s how Huobi…