• September 6, 2024

Bitcoin Taking Cue From Stocks Heading Into Pivotal US Jobs Data

(Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin and other major digital tokens are set to dance to the tune of the stock market’s reaction to a key US jobs report due later Friday, if a rising short-term correlation between crypto and equities is any guide.Most Read from BloombergWorld's Second-Tallest Tower Tests Malaysia's Appetite for More SkyscrapersThe Outsized Cost of Expanding US RoadsMadrid to Ban E-Scooter Rentals, Following Lead Set in ParisHow Air Conditioning Took Over the American OfficeHong Kong’s Arts Hub

  • September 5, 2024

Tackling the Maturity of The Bitcoin Mining Industry with Marko Tarman from NiceHash

While the process of mining itself has changed, becoming more centralized and being managed by large computer centers, companies such as NiceHash continue to serve small and big miners across the world. We sat with NiceHash’s Lead Mining Manager Marko Tarman to talk about how and why the process of mining has changed and how it can fit the current and future DeFi and crypto landscape.

  • September 5, 2024

A Crypto Project's Weird Marketing 'Hack' Riffed on Infamous 1987 Chicago TV Hijacking

The fake breach started with mocking tweets and crescendoed with a masked villain disrupting founder Illia Polosukhin to rip on the crypto "pipe dream" and telling viewers "there's nothing waiting for you in Thailand" (where NEAR's holding its hackathon in November). Reverse psychology aside, the marketing stunt makes callbacks to a decades-old character of early digital culture: Max Headroom. What really makes Max memorable today, and notable for the purposes of NEAR's rather cringey gambit, is the broadcast that wasn't supposed to be: the Max Headroom incident.