Oliver Bradford

The BLAKE2b chain locked out every SHA-256 rig in existence when it activated on 1 September. The one venue quoting the coin showed a 131.7 per cent bid-ask spread, and no major exchange has listed it at all.

The brokerage's platform runs on Avalanche and Hyperledger Besu, and targets the private-market assets that South Korea's first tokenisation phase will legalise on 4 February 2027.

Polymarket surrendered more than a third of its monthly volume. Kalshi gave up 7 per cent. The gap says more about the two platforms than the headline decline does.

The rewrite starts a fresh rulemaking after the agency withdrew its 2023 safeguarding proposal. Until then, US institutional crypto custody runs on a staff letter with no legal force.

The tokens reach a brokerage holding $12 trillion in client assets that still cannot offer crypto in New York or Louisiana, and Schwab has reserved the right to withdraw any of the three before a client trades one.

StarkWare's transaction is nonstandard under Bitcoin Core's relay rules, so MARA had to mine it directly. Hours of computation and up to $200 went into moving 10,000 satoshis.

Arcus's pTokens give the holder a pro-rata claim on a managed perpetuals account at a fixed leverage level, and they move like any other spot asset, lending markets included. The chain underneath them went live eight weeks ago.

The fund converts a nine-year-old Grayscale trust holding roughly 390,000 ZEC and charges 2.50% a year, with the fee revenue routed back into Zcash development.

A race condition in versions before 1.22.2 let a malicious dapp swap the payload the device signed for the one the user approved. Ledger fixed it quietly two weeks before a researcher went public.

The week ending Friday was the strongest for US spot bitcoin funds since October 2025. Fidelity took $293 million, VanEck's HODL bled $16 million.

The attacker bought a majority of a thinly held DAO token, then voted the vault contents to themselves. Term Labs shut down Meta Vault deposits and revoked governance roles in response.

The rename ends the fund's pure-miner definition and adds hyperscale data centres, AI semiconductors, power infrastructure, and quantum computing to its 80% allocation floor.

The exchange answered a Kremlin investigator with the passport scan, address and phone number of a customer who had sent $700 to Ukrainian military fundraisers. He has been in a Moscow jail awaiting trial for almost two years.

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority cleared Coinbase Onchain SPV Ltd. to issue certificates backed by real Apple shares, with dividends and voting rights routed through to wallet holders.

The 16-year lease at Tydal routes NVIDIA Rubin GPUs through Volta to an unnamed AI lab. JPMorgan and another top-tier bank stand behind about $1.3 billion of credit support.

Open interest on Hyperliquid's tokenised-equity and commodity markets crossed $4 billion for the first time last week. Grayscale has put the CME market-maker threshold at $5 billion.

The Swedish-listed treasury company added 2,455 bitcoin by issuing 790 million new shares to the sellers of NSD AS. No cash changed hands on either side of the deal.

The proposal ends stkSEAM staking, distributes the treasury to SEAM holders and leaves the Base lending contracts in a withdrawal-only state that no admin can touch.

Across Protocol, Hashflow, PIVX, Vulcan Forged PYR, Vanar and Viction all lose spot pairs, futures, margin and Earn products in a phased shutdown that starts on 7 August and ends with an October withdrawal deadline.

The Senate reserved Monday's roll call for the continuing resolution. Majority Leader Thune now only says he hopes to begin consideration of the bill before the August 8 recess.

Majority Leader John Thune said the crypto market-structure bill wouldn't reach the floor before the August 7 recess. Galaxy's Alex Thorn set the odds of 2026 passage at 30 per cent, down from 50 last month.

The bitcoin miner signed $2.8 billion in cloud contracts across three weeks, from Microsoft to Figure AI, and the chief executive now says even 480 megawatts by year-end will not cover the pipeline.

The third sweep, spanning Friday to Saturday, split roughly 208 BTC across 293 separate P2WSH vaults — a shape change that made it far harder to trace than the first two.

The unrealised loss reflects the gap between Strategy's $75,578 average cost and quarter-end bitcoin prices near $58,700. STRC preferred grew to $10.5 billion notional.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says onchain vaults may fall inside US securities law. Europe wrote that answer a year ago: curators making allocation calls over pooled deposits are asset managers, and MiCA already says so.

Attackers hit three cross-chain systems in a six-hour window. AFX Trade lost $24 million from a compromised USDC custody bridge; Verus and B² Network gave up another $11.4 million between them.

The 18 January 2027 effective date did not move when the deadline slipped, and any rule finalised after 20 September will lose the ability to shorten issuers' compliance runway.

HB 639 gives residents a self-custody right, exempts miners and validators from money-transmitter licensing, and creates a dedicated superior-court docket for blockchain disputes.

Bitcoin from the Farace and BTC-e wallets was laundered through fresh intermediary addresses before landing on the exchange, sixteen months after Trump's executive order told federal agencies not to sell.

The state's Digital Financial Assets Law took full effect on 1 July, forcing exchanges, custodians and wallet issuers to be licensed or face cease-and-desist orders and $100,000-per-day penalties.

The $289 million transaction consolidates a fragmented Japanese market ahead of a reclassification that would push digital assets under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act as early as fiscal 2027.

Open Standard, an independent issuer backed by Stripe, Coinbase, BlackRock, Visa and Mastercard, will hand almost all reserve yield to the partners that distribute it — a direct assault on Circle's economics.

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Schwab and Cboe will launch S&P 500-linked binary options for retail customers in the coming months. Schwab's 47 million accounts will sit one tab over from contracts Polymarket and Kalshi have spent three years building a category around.

Tether International took full control of the Bitcoin treasury company XXI after acquiring SoftBank's entire position, valued at roughly $679 million. SoftBank's directors stepped down at closing, leaving Tether and Cantor Fitzgerald as the principal backers of the 43,514-BTC vehicle.

Senator Elizabeth Warren has demanded that the OCC produce records by June 1 explaining its approval of national trust charters for nine crypto firms including Coinbase, Ripple, Paxos, Circle, BitGo, Fidelity, Crypto.com, Protego, and Stripe's Bridge subsidiary.

An attacker minted roughly 1,000 unbacked eBTC worth $76.7 million on Echo Protocol's Monad deployment by compromising a single admin key, though the realised loss was around $816,000 after the team regained control and burned the remaining tokens.

Kraken's deal with MoneyGram puts crypto-to-cash withdrawals in roughly 500,000 retail locations across more than 100 countries, weeks before the exchange's planned Nasdaq listing.

Senators Cynthia Lummis and Thom Tillis publicly stood behind the stablecoin yield language in the CLARITY Act on Monday after a coalition of five banking trade groups attacked the compromise as inadequate. The next two weeks will decide whether the deal holds.

Robinhood's crypto trading revenue collapsed 47 per cent year-on-year to $134 million in Q1, but CEO Vlad Tenev used the earnings call to reframe the entire business around tokenisation and a new public testnet of Robinhood Chain.

The CFTC handed Gemini's clearing affiliate a Derivatives Clearing Organization licence, giving the Winklevoss-run exchange the right to clear and settle every futures, options and prediction-market trade it routes through its US marketplace in house.

The Senate Banking Committee will not mark up the CLARITY Act before its early-May recess after Senator Thom Tillis asked Chair Tim Scott for additional negotiating time. Galaxy Digital now puts the odds of 2026 passage at 50-50.

The Colombia-born lending protocol on Rootstock told users on April 27 they have three months to withdraw before the web interface goes dark, blaming a 2021 architecture that cannot be fixed without redeploying.

The EU's 20th sanctions package against Russia includes a total ban on crypto transactions with Russian-based providers, the bloc's most comprehensive crypto-specific enforcement action to date.

The exchange's new KuCard converts USDC to Australian dollars at the point of sale through Mastercard's global network, with support for Apple Pay and Google Pay, turning any of 37 supported trading pairs into spendable funds at 90 million merchant locations.

Ben Zhou told CoinDesk that MiCA covers only spot trading, which doesn't generate enough revenue to sustain an exchange. Derivatives, tokenised assets, and stablecoin services require MiFID II and Electronic Money Institution licences that most crypto firms haven't even started pursuing.

Bitmine moved roughly $320 million worth of ether into staking over 48 hours, putting more than 70 per cent of its nearly five million ETH hoard to work generating yield — and positioning itself to earn $330 million a year from validator rewards alone.

The crypto trading firm's new Crypto Core3 ETF — ticker BESO — charges a 1 per cent fee, rebalances weekly, and earns staking rewards on Ethereum and Solana holdings.

Michael Saylor's Strategy bought 34,164 bitcoin last week for $2.54 billion, vaulting past BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust to become the largest institutional holder of the cryptocurrency.

The Ministry of Economy and Finance will pilot blockchain-based deposit tokens for government procurement in Sejong City during Q4, part of a broader plan to digitise a quarter of all treasury fund executions by 2030.

The hardware wallet maker appointed Ian Rogers as its first 'Chief Human Agency Officer' and unveiled a phased AI security roadmap — a bet that autonomous crypto agents will need physical hardware to keep humans in the loop.

Perpetual futures funding rates on Binance have stayed below zero since early March, matching a pattern last seen in late 2022 that preceded a sustained price recovery.

A counterfeit Ledger Live application bypassed Apple's review process, stole seed phrases from more than 50 victims across five blockchains, and funnelled the proceeds through KuCoin deposit addresses before being removed.

The SEC's Division of Trading and Markets issued a no-action letter giving crypto wallet interfaces and DeFi front-ends a five-year window to operate without broker-dealer registration, subject to strict rules on fees, routing, and disclosure.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has staffed its new Innovation Task Force with five senior advisors drawn from private practice and the agency's own ranks, moving from policy blueprint to drafting actual rules for crypto, AI systems and prediction markets.

Three Democratic senators have opened a formal probe into the 25 April Mar-a-Lago event that sells access to President Trump based on holdings of his personal memecoin, demanding documents from promoter Fight Fight Fight LLC by 21 April.

The confidential settlement ends a four-year legal battle that produced the first federal ruling confirming NFTs qualify as goods under US trademark law, with Ripps required to surrender all RR/BAYC smart contracts and domains within 10 days.

Olaoluwa Osuntokun's prototype lets users prove wallet ownership without a digital signature, solving the collateral damage problem in Bitcoin's most likely response to quantum computing threats.

America's largest bitcoin ATM operator revealed that attackers stole 50.9 BTC from its corporate settlement wallets in late March after compromising internal credentials, prompting an FBI investigation and a material event filing with the SEC.

The $1.5 trillion asset manager will run active crypto strategies under a new Franklin Crypto unit, with part of the acquisition settled in tokenised money-fund shares — a first for traditional finance M&A.

The approval, granted a week after Australia passed its first comprehensive digital-asset law, gives Coinbase a regulatory head start to offer derivatives, equities, and payments from a single app.

The FDIC board voted on 7 April to advance a comprehensive prudential framework governing how federally supervised banks can issue, back, and redeem payment stablecoins, including a two-business-day redemption requirement.

Vivek Ramaswamy's bitcoin treasury firm now holds 13,741 BTC purchased at an average cost well above current market prices, raising questions about the sustainability of the corporate bitcoin accumulation model beyond Strategy's dominance.

Tokens linked to decentralised AI infrastructure have surged since NVIDIA's GTC conference, with TAO up 60 percent, FET up 66 percent and NEAR gaining more than 10 percent in a single session.

Europe's biggest digital asset manager has secured a US public listing through a SPAC deal with Vine Hill Capital, creating a $1.2 billion entity trading under the ticker CSHR.

The state's Department of Financial Protection and Innovation has begun accepting licence applications under DFAL, the most comprehensive state-level crypto regulatory framework in the United States.

The prediction market platform announces CTF Exchange V2, a rebuilt matching engine, and Polymarket USD — a USDC-backed collateral token designed to eliminate bridge-related risk on Polygon.

Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin Trust is expected to begin trading on NYSE Arca under the ticker MSBT as early as this week, with a 0.14 percent annual fee that undercuts BlackRock's market-leading fund and marks the first spot Bitcoin ETF issued directly by a major US bank.

The International Monetary Fund has cautioned that moving trading infrastructure onto blockchain-based systems could accelerate financial crises beyond regulators' ability to respond, identifying four systemic risk categories in a landmark report.

Polymarket and Kalshi have drawn more than $200 million in wagers on Iran conflict outcomes in 2026, but a series of controversies — from bets on downed pilots to suspected insider trading netting nearly $1 million — has triggered congressional action and raised existential questions about the industry's ethical boundaries.

Paris-based Lightning Stock Exchange will admit French aerospace manufacturer ST Group on 9 April 2026 in the first initial public offering conducted entirely on blockchain infrastructure under the EU's DLT Pilot Regime, merging issuance, trading, and settlement into a single on-chain system.

UBS, Société Générale and Banque de France move beyond pilots to deploy live repo operations on Ethereum's public blockchain, targeting settlement speed and transparency gains.

The world's largest asset manager has filed an amended S-1 with the SEC for a covered-call Bitcoin ETF that would generate income by writing options on its flagship IBIT holdings, signalling a new phase in institutional crypto product development.

CoinShares' Q1 2026 mining report reveals that production costs have surged to $80,000 per bitcoin while hash prices hit five-year lows, accelerating a historic pivot toward AI infrastructure that could see listed miners derive the majority of revenue from artificial intelligence by year-end.

Drift Protocol reveals its $285 million exploit was the culmination of a six-month social engineering campaign by a DPRK-linked group that posed as a quantitative trading firm.

A new Bank of Canada staff paper examines Aave V3's revenue model, margin trading behaviour, and liquidation dynamics, concluding that decentralised lending works but carries systemic risks that regulators should watch closely.

Prediction market platform Kalshi has appointed Democratic strategist Stephanie Cutter as a policy adviser, balancing its earlier hire of Donald Trump Jr., as the industry faces simultaneous legal challenges from US states and the federal government.

The Ethereum Foundation deposited 45,034 ETH into the Beacon Chain deposit contract on Thursday, bringing its total staked position to approximately 69,500 ETH and within reach of its stated 70,000 ETH goal.

Cambodia's National Assembly has unanimously approved the country's first law specifically targeting online scam compounds, imposing prison sentences of up to 20 years for ringleaders involved in human trafficking and torture alongside their fraud operations.

Decentralized finance total value locked exceeds $200 billion across all chains for the first time since the 2021 bull run, driven by stablecoin growth and Ethereum L2 adoption.

Lido launches institutional-grade staking vaults during 2025, targeting large capital providers with customized Ethereum staking and restaking solutions.

Aave governance community signals strong interest in expanding lending to Bitcoin Layer 2 networks, with discussions underway on integration pathways without requiring wrapped assets.

Hyperliquid decentralized exchange surpasses $1 billion in daily trading volume in early 2025, demonstrating institutional adoption of decentralized perpetual trading infrastructure.

Berachain launches mainnet on February 6, 2025, introducing Proof of Liquidity consensus mechanism rewarding vault liquidity providers through protocol-level incentives.

Sonic chain launches mainnet in January 2025 as rebranded Fantom, featuring enhanced DeFi vault incentive programs and infrastructure improvements.

Fluid Finance releases unified vault protocol combining lending and DEX liquidity, attempting to solve capital fragmentation by allowing single deposits to service both lending and trading simultaneously.

Russia formalized legal recognition of cryptocurrency mining on November 1, 2024, through federal legislation that establishes registration requirements, electricity limitations, and restrictions on foreign participation in mining activities.

Maple Finance launches institutional lending vaults 2.0 during late 2024, enabling sophisticated credit strategies and institutional capital deployment.

Jito introduces restaking vault infrastructure on Solana in 2024, enabling validators to earn additional yield from MEV-related services through vault mechanisms.

Ondo Finance dominates real-world asset tokenization vault infrastructure throughout 2024, accumulating billions in vault deposits for bond and credit strategies.

MakerDAO rebrand to Sky protocol on August 27, 2024, introducing USDS savings vault and SKY governance token as the protocol evolves beyond single-collateral mechanisms.

Babylon protocol launches Bitcoin staking mainnet on August 22, 2024, hitting its 1,000 BTC Phase 1 cap within 74 minutes as over 12,000 early stakers lock coins for security providers.

Kamino Finance establishes dominance across Solana lending vaults during 2024, accumulating billions through concentrated liquidity vault mechanisms.

EtherFi emerges as the largest liquid restaking vault protocol in 2024, accumulating billions in ETH deposits through streamlined vault architecture.

Compound governance faces attack through Proposal 289 on July 29, 2024, highlighting vulnerabilities in vault-based lending protocol governance mechanisms.

Michael Egorov's $96 million stablecoin debt against CRV collateral triggers a $140 million forced liquidation as the token drops 24% in 36 hours.

Marathon Digital achieved approximately 30 exahashes per second of energized hashrate in mid-2024, representing over 30,000 operational mining devices and confirming the company's status as a leading North American mining operator.

Aave governance proposes a major v4 architecture overhaul consolidating liquidity through a unified hub-and-spoke model, targeting launch in mid-2025.

EigenLayer opens EIGEN token claims to 280,000 wallets, distributing 113 million tokens based on March snapshot, but locks transfers until community consensus forms.

Renzo's ezETH restaking vault token depegs from ETH in April 2024, triggering panic selling and broader concerns about liquid restaking vault security.

Pendle Finance's total value locked climbs beyond $5 billion in April 2024 as the protocol's yield tokenization vault mechanism attracts sophisticated DeFi traders and institutions.

Bitcoin miners generated record monthly revenue of $2.01 billion in March 2024 before the April halving reduced block rewards by 50 percent, forcing the industry to adapt to approximately $10 billion in annual revenue losses.

Ethena's synthetic dollar USDe reaches $2 billion in total supply within two months, delivering 27% APY from perpetual futures funding rates and Ethereum staking.

Uniswap Labs receives SEC Wells notice on April 10, 2024, indicating potential enforcement action against decentralized exchange operations and vault mechanisms.

Blast Layer 2 network launches mainnet on February 29, 2024, integrating native yield generation into vault infrastructure for Ethereum and stablecoin deposits.

Yearn Finance launches v3 vault architecture in February 2024, introducing modular strategy design enabling flexible yield optimization across DeFi protocols.

Morpho Blue launches permissionless lending vault protocol on Ethereum in January 2024, enabling arbitrary collateral-loan combinations with protocol-minimalist architecture.

A Vyper compiler bug allows attackers to drain $70M from Curve pools, sending CRV plummeting 30% and triggering margin calls on Curve founder Michael Egorov's positions.

EigenLayer's restaking protocol goes live on Ethereum mainnet, drawing $16 million in liquid staking tokens on day one as validators race to double-dip on yields.

MakerDAO deployed Spark Protocol to provide lending services and vault strategies, positioning the protocol to compete with Aave and recapture growth in the lending sector.

Attacker drains Euler Finance for $197 million using oracle-based flash loan exploit, then negotiates return of most funds as cryptocurrency enforcement tightens.

Lido Finance surpassed MakerDAO as the largest DeFi protocol by total value locked, reflecting explosive growth in staking demand following Ethereum's proof-of-stake transition.

Foundry USA, a Digital Currency Group subsidiary, captured dominant share of Bitcoin mining pool market following Chinese mining restrictions, commanding over 30 percent of network hashrate by early 2023.

Core Scientific, one of the largest bitcoin mining companies, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on December 21, 2022, citing liquidity crisis and debt pressures amid depressed bitcoin prices and unfavorable mining economics.

FTX's bankruptcy filing November 8 triggered panic withdrawals from DeFi protocols, draining approximately $4 billion in TVL within 72 hours and revealing liquidity shortfalls under extreme redemption pressure.

Avi Eisenberg exploited Mango Markets for $114 million by manipulating token prices and liquidating positions, later negotiating partial fund return.

Hackers compromise Curve's nameserver and redirect users to a cloned site, stealing $575K in approvals before the team regains control and directs users to curve.finance.

Aave's governance voted 99% in favor of GHO, a collateral-backed stablecoin designed to generate revenue for the protocol and reduce reliance on external stablecoin issuers.

Three Arrows Capital defaulted on loans across major DeFi platforms after losing billions in Terra vault exposure, triggering cascading defaults across the crypto lending ecosystem.

Celsius Network froze all user withdrawals, trapping billions in customer deposits in vaults and lending positions after Three Arrows Capital defaulted on loans.

Terra's UST stablecoin lost its dollar peg when Luna's price collapsed, wiping out $40 billion in user deposits and triggering widespread liquidations across DeFi.

Beanstalk Farms lost $182 million when attackers used flash loans to acquire governance voting power and drain protocol vaults through a malicious proposal.

Ronin Bridge suffered a $625 million theft when attackers compromised validator nodes, draining cryptocurrency vaults supporting the Axie Infinity gaming ecosystem.

Intel unveiled its Blockscale bitcoin mining ASIC chip through a technical presentation at ISSCC in February 2022, marking the semiconductor giant's official entry into the specialized mining hardware market with focus on energy efficiency.

Wormhole bridge lost $320 million when attackers exploited a signature verification vulnerability, draining wrapped token vaults supporting Solana's cross-chain assets.

Bitcoin mining difficulty surged to an all-time high of 26.64 trillion on January 21, 2022, as Chinese miners who relocated following China's ban resumed operations across North America and other regions.

Badger DAO lost $120 million when attackers compromised its web interface, injecting malicious code that redirected user approvals to attacker-controlled addresses during fund transfers.

Lido Finance achieved $10 billion in staked Ethereum, establishing itself as the dominant liquid staking protocol and accounting for a significant portion of all ETH validators.

Cream Finance suffered a $37.5 million loss when attackers exploited the lending protocol's pricing oracle using flash loans, demonstrating continued vulnerability in DeFi price feeds.

Olympus DAO's (3,3) bonding mechanics went viral on social media, attracting retail investors seeking high yields through an unconventional protocol mechanism that required bonding cryptocurrency for OHM tokens.

Kazakhstan emerged as the world's second-largest bitcoin mining hub by summer 2021 after Chinese miners relocated operations following China's comprehensive ban, taking advantage of the country's cheap electricity and permissive regulatory environment.

Poly Network suffered a $611 million theft in the largest DeFi exploit to date, with attackers moving assets across multiple blockchain networks through cross-chain bridge vulnerabilities.

THORChain lost $8 million when attackers exploited a vulnerability in its cross-chain swap mechanism, revealing risks in nascent multichain DeFi infrastructure.

Compound Finance launched Compound Treasury, offering institutions institutional-grade access to DeFi vault strategies with simplified interfaces and enterprise security standards.

China's government initiated a comprehensive crackdown on cryptocurrency mining in June 2021, with provincial authorities ordering immediate cessation of mining operations and later implementing a nationwide ban through federal regulatory action.

Convex Finance launched to optimize yield farming strategies on Curve Finance, offering users enhanced returns through pooled voting power and automated vault management.

Aave deployed its lending protocol on Polygon, backed by a $40M liquidity mining program, to serve retail users priced out of Ethereum by soaring transaction costs.

Yearn Finance deployed its V2 vaults with a redesigned architecture offering improved capital efficiency and multi-strategy support for automated yield farming.

Marathon Patent Group announced an $23 million contract with Bitmain in August 2020 to purchase 10,500 Antminer S19 Pro mining devices as the company accelerated its bitcoin mining operations expansion.

Riot Blockchain commenced mining operations at its Rockdale facility in Texas in June 2020 and began construction on the massive Navarro County facility that would eventually support up to 1 gigawatt of mining capacity.

Chinese bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer Canaan Creative raised $90 million in its debut on Nasdaq on November 21, 2019, making it the first dedicated cryptocurrency mining company to achieve a U.S. public listing.

Heavy rainfall in Sichuan province during late June 2019 destroyed tens of thousands of mining rigs and disrupted up to 20 percent of the global Bitcoin hashrate, prompting miners to relocate operations to Xinjiang.

Cloud mining provider Genesis Mining announced in August 2018 that it would terminate unprofitable bitcoin contracts after miners' daily outputs fell below maintenance fee requirements during an extended cryptocurrency market downturn.

Leaked financial documents revealed that cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain generated $1.1 billion in net profit during the first quarter of 2018, with some sources reporting figures as high as $1.2 billion for the quarter.

Samsung confirmed in January 2018 that it had begun mass production of ASIC chips for bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining, entering the specialized hardware sector previously dominated by Bitmain and Canaan Creative.

The NiceHash mining marketplace suffered a major security breach in December 2017, with attackers stealing approximately 4,700 bitcoins worth $64 million through a sophisticated spear phishing attack that compromised company systems.

Bitfury began deploying its 16nm ASIC mining chip in mid-2016 with efficiency of 0.06 joules per gigahash and 40 gigahashes per second per chip, advancing mining hardware into a new generation of performance.

Swedish bitcoin mining company KnCMiner filed for bankruptcy after raising $32 million, citing high energy taxes, rising competition from Chinese miners, and the impending July 2016 bitcoin halving.

21 Inc unveiled the Bitcoin Computer, a Raspberry Pi-based device with an integrated mining chip, priced at $399 and designed to let developers earn bitcoin while selling digital services.