On March 20, 2022, the New York Times published a 14,000-word puff piece on cryptocurrencies, both online and as an entire section of the Sunday print edition. Though its author, Kevin Roose, wrote that it aimed to be a “sober, dispassionate explanation of what crypto actually is”, it was a Read more…
Exxon Mobil is running a pilot program using excess natural gas that would otherwise be burned off from North Dakota oil wells to power cryptocurrency-mining operations and is considering doing the same at other sites around the globe, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The oil giant Read more…
A 20-year-old Ukrainian man named “Fadey” managed to escape the war and cross into Poland with 40% of his life savings in bitcoin contained on a USB stick. His experience starts with the invasion and the realization that he would soon have to flee his homeland, for which he needed Read more…
After much speculation, Nvidia today at its March 2022 GTC event announced the Hopper GPU architecture, a line of graphics cards that the company says will accelerate the types of algorithms commonly used in data science. Named for Grace Hopper, the pioneering U.S. computer scientist, the new architecture succeeds Nvidia’s Read more…
Non-fungible tokens have risen in interest and value over the last year, with Bored Ape Yacht Club among the most popular and valuable collections. Here’s what one of the Ethereum co-founders had to say about the Bored Ape Yacht Club. The rise of NFTs has led to a rise in Read more…
Spotify may be the latest service to adopt NFTs. According to the Financial Times, the company is “drawing up plans to add blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens to its streaming service, fueling excitement in the crypto and music industries about the potential of NFTs to boost artists’ earnings.” It comes Read more…
Motherboard found old footage from one of the first major Bitcoin conferences: Bitcoin 2013 in San Jose. They filmed at the conference — where Bitcoin cost $118 at the time — and in the basement of the organizer and founder of BitInstant, Charlie Shrem [who would later get arrested and Read more…