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Homepage > News > Tech > China still dominates BTC mining despite blanket ban China still dominates BTC block reward mining despite banning the sector and a spirited campaign by the U.S. to take over from its bitter economic rival. Data from CryptoQuant shows that China accounts for 55% of the BTC mining pool hash rate. The U.S. is second …

Homepage > News > Tech > TypeScript SDK opens up BSV blockchain to more developers Developers with TypeScript experience can bring their ideas closer to reality, thanks to BSV’s TypeScript SDK. Released in mid-2024, it was the first in a series of language-specific SDKs for blockchain from the BSV Association. The BSV Association also invited developers to make their own …

Homepage > News > Tech > nChain boosts trust in AI with on-chain ZK Proofs Blockchain research and development leader nChain says its technology could play a big part in ensuring artificial intelligence (AI) models are secure and trustworthy.  In September, the firm successfully demonstrated a way to cryptographically prove that an AI model is trained on a certain dataset and that …

Homepage > News > Tech > BTC mining profitability in free fall, noise complaints rise BTC mining profitability continues to tumble despite the token’s price increasing, while communities living near mining sites are losing sleep and losing patience. JPMorgan (NASDAQ: JPM) analysts issued a report this week noting that block reward miners’ daily revenue and gross profit both fell 6% in September, the …

Homepage > News > Tech > BTC miner Hut 8 pivots to AI as BTC profits dry up As BTC block reward mining profits dry up, miners are pivoting to artificial intelligence (AI) to ride the wave back to profitability. The latest is Hut 8 (NASDAQ: HUT), one of the largest United States miners, now offering AI clients GPU-as-a-Service. Hut 8 recently …

Homepage > News > Interviews > Treechat resurrects archives from Twetch and Hodlocker What’s the point of putting social media posts on a blockchain? Treechat has answered that question, resurrecting archives from Twetch and Hodlocker. Those archives are now searchable and quotable on Treechat’s posting network, much to the delight of past users who feared their musings could be lost to history. …

Homepage > News > Tech > Russia allows block reward miners have surplus electricity At the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on September 5, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said the Ministry he oversees is ready to allow digital currency miners to access surplus energy. Delving deeper, Tsivelev said that while fostering the mining industry is not a priority for …

Homepage > News > Tech > WhatsOnChain gets own UTXO endpoints for BSV blockchain services Keeping track of unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) just got faster for services running on the BSV blockchain. WhatsOnChain is implementing a new UTXO set of application programming interface (API) endpoints it developed in-house, replacing the older ElectrumX it described as being “the gold standard for tracking UTXOs on …

Homepage > News > Tech > Blockchain enables autonomous AI agents to learn Solving one of the biggest problems in artificial intelligence (AI) is no small feat; this week, a team of Belgian scientists did just that. Utilizing blockchain technology, the team enabled autonomous AI agents to both learn and communicate securely. The autonomous agents were able to learn from each other, …

Homepage > News > Tech > Norwegians celebrate as noisy BTC miners shut down Not long ago, CoinGeek reported on how Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that BTC miners were causing blackouts in certain regions. Russia responded to residents’ complaints by regulating mining and offering miners first dibs on excess energy in other areas. Now, residents of Stokmarknes in Norway …