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Tehran Stock Exchange CEO resigns following discovery of Bitcoin miners in basement

Iranian authorities have conducted many raids on crypto miners in abandoned factories, homes, and small businesses — nothing quite as high profile as the country's largest stock exchange.

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Salvadoran President Shares Video of Volcano-Powered Bitcoin Mining Facility

On Tuesday, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele shared a video of a bitcoin mine operating adjacent to a volcano. Bukele discussed the volcano-powered bitcoin mining on June 9 when he talked…

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El Salvador President Shares Images of What Seems To Be Its Volcano-Powered Bitcoin Mining Facility

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele may be receiving a wave of criticism due to his hasty decision to declare Bitcoin as legal tender in his country, but that is not…

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23,250 ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ Spent in 2021: This Year Old School Miners Moved $1 Billion in BTC From 2010-2013

On Bitcoin’s 12th anniversary, a mystery miner from the early days spent 1,000 decade-old bitcoins that were mined in 2010. The strange miner was not the only entity that spent…

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Northern Data AG Acquires Bitcoin Miner Bitfield — 33,000 Miners Gained in Stock-for-Stock Deal

On Monday, the high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure provider and bitcoin mining firm Northern Data AG announced the acquisition of the bitcoin mining operation Bitfield N.V. in a stock-for-stock deal. Northern…

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Trading and Mining Crackdown in China Escalates: Bitcoin Plunges $3K

The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) published a document reminding that digital assets are banned within the country and added that operating with exchanges will also be prohibited. As a…

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