Marathon CEO Fred Thiel tells CoinDesk in an interview that he wants to make sure development and maintenance of the open-source Bitcoin Core client software are "properly funded."
The average transaction fee on Bitcoin has shot above $7, pushing total fees up nearly fivefold in two weeks, thanks to a surge in Ethereum-style “BRC-20” tokens and NFT-like “inscriptions” on the increasingly popular Ordinals project.
Two aspects of the crypto world, blockchain tech companies and exchanges and crypto miners, reveal that M&A activity is strong and that crypto-related companies have converged with the rest of tech, a sign that the digital-asset industry is maturing.
La presión de compra continúa siendo al contado, pero los precios se mueven con facilidad por su relativa baja liquidez, dijeron analistas de Bitfinex.
Algunos mineros se han aferrado al bitcoin que minaron y optaron, en su lugar, por financiar operaciones con deudas y otro capital, algo que funciona muy bien hasta que deja de hacerlo.
A cash crunch and high energy costs are hitting miners. That story and other news shaping the cryptocurrency world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."