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Bitcoin’s Hashrate Slides 15% in 10 Days, Price and Difficulty Puts Pressure on BTC Miners

The price of bitcoin has been on a long losing streak since November 10, 2021, when the leading crypto asset tapped an all-time high at $69K per unit. During the last two weeks, bitcoin has shed more than 19% in value, and the network’s hashrate has dropped from over 200 exahash per second (EH/s) to 174 EH/s losing roughly 15% in ten days. Civil Unrest in Kazakhstan Leads to Hashrate Loss Speculation, Kazakhstan’s Bitcoin Miners Say Issues Did Not Affect Them This week the civil unrest in Kazakhstan caused a

Polkadot Passes Bitcoin Cash as 6th Largest Crypto

Polkadot and its native cryptocurrency, DOT, have overtaken Bitcoin Cash (BCH) as the sixth largest cryptocurrency by market cap. According to CoinGecko, a cryptocurrency market capitalization aggregator, Polkadot has a market cap of $7.63 billion. It now ranks sixth by market cap, compared to Bitcoin Cash’s $6.35 billion market cap. What has many impressed is the short time frame it took for Polkadot to reach this level. Polkadot is less than a year old. While Polkadot was hitting this milestone, co-founder Gavin Wood released an updated road map for the