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Hive Blockchain's ethereum mining facility in Boden, Sweden (Sandali Handagama).
To Unplug or Double Down? Crypto Mining in Crypto Winter
Tough market conditions are forcing miners to make tough decisions. Jeff Wilser checks in with Econoalchemist, a longtime pseudonymous miner.
Hive Blockchain's ethereum mining facility in Boden, Sweden (Sandali Handagama).

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Ledger's Vault Scores $150 Million in Crypto Insurance From Lloyd's Syndicate
The move is another sign that the insurance industry is gradually becoming comfortable writing coverage for digital assets.
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You Can Now Prove a Whole Blockchain With One Math Problem – Really
According to Electric Coin Company research, you can prove the whole bitcoin blockchain in less space than a bitcoin blockhead, only 80-bytes of data.
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Facebook's Libra Lacks Foundational Components for Crypto Key Security
After a review of documentation for the Libra protocol and its planned ecosystem, Steven Sprague believes Facebook left out key security components.
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Bitcoin and Blockchain: The Tangled History of Two Tech Buzzwords
The word "blockchain" isn't used in the bitcoin white paper, the document that started it all. So, how did the term take off as a buzzword?
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About That Orange B... The History of Bitcoin’s Logos
Can a logo symbolize the ethos of a project? An industry? An entire movement? Bitcoin's might have come close.
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Is It Time for a Blockchain Brexit?
The U.K. is on the brink of a previously unthinkable 'hard Brexit' from the European Union. A solution could be found in the capabilities of blockchain.
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How Lightning Makes Bitcoin Great Again (for Payments)
Lightning Labs' Alex Bosworth talks about how the lightning network provides bitcoin's best hope for becoming the payments network of the future.
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I Got the Mark of the Beast – And It Will Hold My Bitcoin
There's a lot of overlap between bitcoiners and body hackers. CoinDesk editor Bailey Reutzel traveled to Austin, Texas to explore that crossroads and become a bitcoin holding...
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The Virtuous Circle of Market Data
The growth of data analytics is about more than extracting insights from bits and bytes – it’s about the role of markets, argues Noelle Acheson.
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