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The developers of Dogecoin (DOGE) have made an update, which aims to respond to the recent influx of users. The enthusiasm around the canine altcoin doesn’t seem to be waning, but for how long?

Dogecoin (DOGE) is updating

According to a statement of developers , Dogecoin 1.14.3 Core “ is a minor update e which includes significant performance improvements“ . The most notable change is an improvement in sync speed , which makes the process of checking blocks easier. The second major update concerns the expiration time of transactions cached in the mempool. This goes from 336 hours to 24 hours.

This is the first Bitcoin Code update in years as the project has been more or less scrapped. Interest from new investors, however, prompted developers to return to work on the blockchain. According to Ross Nicoll , the main person in charge of maintaining the blockchain, it was a necessary step:

“ Because of this new interest, we were able to better understand the performance of the program we wrote, and it pushed us to improve what we can, both in the short term and in the long term. […] In 24 hours we have seen the number of nodes increase by more than 15 times , and it is in such moments that the least optimized elements appear. “

Dogecoin price holds for now

The price of the DOGE had exploded following the interest of WallStreetBets and Elon Musk, with two successive increases which had brought it towards 0.087 dollars. Since then, the price of DOGE has tended to fall again, but it is trading very well above the levels it experienced a few months ago. On March 1, 2020, a DOGE was worth $ 0.002. As of March 1, 2021, it is worth $ 0.048 :

Currently, the DOGE continues to sit 14th in the cryptocurrency ranking by capitalization, with a market cap exceeding $ 6 billion . Will this enougement last? If the developers take care of the network again, it will not be enough to create demand from investors. And the “ Elon effect” will not last forever. It will therefore take more than enthusiasm to sustain the price of Dogecoin.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a statement on Donald Trump’s social media ban on Twitter. In it he criticizes the tech giants going it alone and sees an attack on freedom of expression.

In a Twitter thread, Vitalik Buterin condemned Donald Trump’s ban on various social media platforms

The US president was initially banned from Twitter for twelve hours after the indirect call to storm the Capitol. Then the temporary ban became a permanent one. Other social networks such as YouTube, Reddit or Facebook followed Twitter’s example and also removed Trump from their platforms. Buterin is critical of this step. The uproar in Washington was terrible and people who still supported Donald Trump were crazy. Nevertheless, the Ethereum co-founder wants to get rid of a few things that „have not yet been addressed“.

He finds it frightening that people who would normally never support such corporate power are now cheering tech CEOs who defied democratically elected officials. This requires a certain amount of self-examination. According to Vitalik Buterin, the Twitter ban is an asset for the separation of powers, as two centers of power ensure that if one breaks, the other can step in for the failure. He was bothered by the fact that Jack Dorsey, who was not elected by vote, violated the principles of liberal democracy.

After Trump was blocked, Twitter published a statement in which the short message service justified its action. The Ethereum co-founder took this up and wrote:

There are huge flaws in jacktatorship today. A big one is: You (the measure, editor’s note) is not “legal” enough. The Twitter Safety Supreme Court opinion is frankly poorly argued and reads like an ex-post justification.

Credible neutrality as a solution?

As a solution, Vitalik linked Buterin to a website that proposes the concept of “credible neutrality”. According to this, a mechanism would try to treat all participants fairly, although this is not always easy as people’s needs are different. However, it is not enough just to have such a system. It is also crucial to convince people of the fairness of the mechanism.

Em 8 de janeiro de 2020, a Hive Blockchain Technologies Ltd., uma empresa de mineração de criptografia de capital aberto, ultrapassou US $ 1 bilhão em valor de mercado em meio a um mercado de criptomoeda ressurgente .

A Hive, que produz moedas digitais recém-cunhadas como BTC e ETH, viu suas ações explodirem nos últimos meses em meio à alta parabólica do bitcoin. As ações da startup de mineração com sede em Vancouver aumentaram mais de 2.500% em 2020.

A Hive atua como um elo da indústria de blockchain para os mercados de capital tradicionais e tem fornecido aos acionistas, de forma consistente, exposição às margens operacionais da criptomoeda.

O valor de mercado da mineradora atingiu agora US $ 1,17 bilhão , com 345 milhões de ações em circulação. Esse crescimento vem com o aumento da demanda por criptografia, à medida que o desempenho da economia mundial é inferior devido à pandemia de Covid-19.

Crypto Mining Companies lucram com o BTC Rally

A Hive tem se posicionado para explorar o crescente mercado de mineração no ano passado, aumentando amplamente sua capacidade de mineração BTC.

Em novembro de 2020, a empresa anunciou a compra e hashing imediato de 1.240 mineiros MicroBT WhatsMiner M30S, quase dobrando seu poder de hash. A gigante da mineração adicionou mais de 3.000 novas máquinas de mineração às suas operações de mineração em 2020 e pretende atingir uma potência operacional total de 1.000 PH / s até o final de 2021.

O setor de mineração de criptografia se beneficiou do aumento dos preços do BTC, com dados da Glassnode estimando que a receita total da mineradora está agora em mais de US $ 13 bilhões. Essas margens de lucro elevadas tornam a mineração uma indústria de peso no setor de criptografia.

Alimentados pela recente corrida em alta da criptografia, os preços das ações de empresas relacionadas à mineração de criptografia têm registrado ganhos massivos desde as últimas semanas de 2020.

Antes de Hive, outras startups de mineração importantes, como Riot Blockchain (RIOT) e Marathon Patent Group (MARA), também ultrapassaram o valor de mercado de US $ 1 bilhão no mês passado.

BTC Mining Returns alcança máximos em 2019

Os mineiros também estão aproveitando o aumento da atividade no blockchain bitcoin para obter lucros maciços. De acordo com dados recentes da Glassnode , os mineradores BTC estão ganhando $ 1 milhão por hora, o que é um aumento de aproximadamente 185% desde que a terceira redução das recompensas aconteceu em meados de maio.

A última vez que a receita de mineração por hora esteve perto do nível atual foi em julho de 2019, quando as recompensas em bloco foram duas vezes maiores do que hoje. Como resultado desses retornos lucrativos, o mercado de máquinas de mineração de bitcoin está esquentando. De acordo com John Lee Quigley do Hashr8 , o aumento da demanda por BTC em meio a uma alta astronômica de preços reflete o preço do hardware de mineração. As mineradoras Microbt e Bitmain estão supostamente esgotadas até maio de 2021, o que elevou o custo dos equipamentos de mineração de última geração em 35% nos últimos dois meses.

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• Brad Garlinghouse, administrerende direktør i Ripple, dukket nylig opp på CNN for å diskutere operasjoner, tilbakeslag og fremtidsutsikter.
• Han bemerker mangelen på klarhet om brukbarheten til XRP av styrende organer som SEC.
• Garlinghouse mener at regulatorisk usikkerhet gjør det til en ganske stor utfordring å jobbe i USA.

Brad Garlinghouse, administrerende direktør i Ripple, dukket nylig opp på CNN med anker Julia Chatterley for å diskutere Ripples virksomhet, tilbakeslag og fremtidsutsikter.

XRP har vært en av de største kryptovalutaene som økte i verdi sammen med økningen av bitcoin.

XRPs samlede markedsverdi økte med nesten 300% de siste tre månedene, men det er ikke på grunn av firmaets engasjement i USA.

Regulatoriske bekymringer

Selv om Ripple fremdeles er et USA-basert selskap, kommer de aller fleste Ripple-kunder fra utenfor USA. Firmaet planlegger å flytte hovedkvarteret til et annet land med mer lempelige kryptokurrencyregler.

Garlinghouse uttalte at rundt 95% av Ripples kunder bor utenfor USA, ettersom det fremdeles er for mye usikkerhet i regulering når det gjelder de fleste kryptovalutaer i landet.

Garlinghouse forklarte at mange amerikanske selskaper ikke er villige til å bli involvert i Ripple ennå, ettersom det ikke er noen klarhet om brukbarheten av XRP i juridiske termer av styrende organer som SEC.

For mange år siden ga Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) avklarende uttalelser angående de to største kryptovalutaene i rommet, Bitcoin og Ethereum, men har ikke kommet med noen klare uttalelser om andre.

SEC gjorde det klart at det ikke betegner Bitcoin eller Ethereum som verdipapirer, noe som gir mye mer definerte regler for hvordan eiendelene kan behandles og brukes. Det samme har ikke blitt gjort for andre store kryptovalutaer ennå.

Ripple: Utfordrende å jobbe med amerikanske kunder

I dette intervjuet utdypet Garlinghouse hvordan det er å prøve å samarbeide med amerikanske kunder for å integrere Ripple-plattformen, og at usikkerhet i myndighetene gjør det til en ganske stor utfordring.

I følge Garlinghouse, selv om det er en rekke USA-baserte selskaper som er interessert i å integrere og bruke Ripple, vil de fleste selskaper ikke risikere integrering før det er en skikkelig juridisk ramme som gir denne klarheten.

Sammenlignet med andre land rundt om i verden ser Garlinghouse ikke denne typen nøling. Han forklarer at det er en klarere referanseramme for hvordan man håndterer denne typen digitale eiendeler fra et juridisk perspektiv.

Garlinghouse mener at XRP bør behandles på samme måte som Bitcoin og Ethereum av SEC, med andre ord, det bør ikke kategoriseres som en sikkerhet.

Han sa videre at han ikke er klar over noe annet marked globalt som vil behandle XRP som en sikkerhet. Inntil det er mer regulatorisk klarhet rundt hvordan Ripple og XRP kan behandles, kan de aller fleste Ripple-kunder fortsette å forbli utenfor USA.

Some people sometimes see Bitcoin mining as a wasteful and useless industry. Genesis Mining is launching a pilot project in which they go a step further than ‚converting electricity into hashes‘. They are going to link the mining of bitcoin to the cultivation of crops.

Bitcoin mining

To be more precise, they are going to use the heat for greenhouses in Boden, Sweden. The company announces this today in a press release. The cloud mining company has been working on this project for a year now. They want to decimate the waste when mining bitcoin.

The biggest cost item for bitcoin mining is electricity. Using special rigs, the so-called ASICs, miners convert this electricity into computing power. The compensation they receive for this is in the block reward, which consists of a subsidy (which is currently 6.25 BTC) and the sum of the transaction costs in the block.

But with that, for the time being, the profit was only within the ecosystem of the cryptomint itself. There are also initiatives to use illiquid energy (with gas flaring) for mining. But also here the end product was just new mined bitcoin.

With this initiative of Genesis Mining they also use the residual product of the mining, namely the heat that is released. Not only do they want to recycle this heat, they also want to help the local government to produce self-sufficient food in the greenhouses.

„A 1 MW data center can improve local self-sufficiency by up to 8% compared to competing products in the market.

MATTIAS VESTERLUND, RESEARCHER AT RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN (RISE)

Sustainable development

In addition to Genesis Mining and its philanthropic subsidiary Hashpower For Science, this project is also supported by Systemair, Lulea Technical University, RISE, Boden Business Agency and the local municipality (Boden).

„This project contributes to scaling up the food industry while achieving national energy efficiency targets. It is the first of many projects within the Energy Symbiosis, and hopefully the results will show that it is very possible to scale up to large commercial production“.

NILS LINDH, DIRECTOR OF DATA CENTER DEVELOPMENT AT BIDDING BUSINESS AGENCY

For the pilot, Genesis Mining made special customized Bitcoin mining containers with newly developed hot air extraction systems. All this is clearly documented on the website.

Green initiatives

According to calculations by the Technical University of Lulea, a mini container of 550 kW is more than enough to heat a 300 m2 greenhouse – even in the cold Swedish climate. However, according to a university lecturer, the potential is many times greater than that.

The news follows an initiative of Square. They are investing $10 million in the mining industry, committing to a green(er) sector with their Bitcoin Clean Energy Investment Initiative.

Hans Looman joked in our Hup Bitcoin podcast about heating his home in Canada with a mining rig as a (noisy) hobby project. Listen to his story about mining rigs at locations where they torch gas in exchange for free bitcoin.