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Computing power directed at Binance Pool has fallen from 26 EH/s in December to about 9 EH/s. Its remaining miners must choose another provider before a Nov. 10 cutoff. Crypto exchange Binance is shutting the bitcoin mining pool it launched in April 2020, with the computing power directed at the service down nearly two-thirds from the end of last year. Binance Pool had an estimated 26 exahashes per second, or.

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Bets on an October Fed rate hike briefly spiked to nearly 50% after Wednesday’s inflation report, but have since cooled. Bitcoin BTC$81,499.86 is under pressure as Wednesday’s U.S. inflation data revived concerns that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates this month. The largest cryptocurrency by market value was trading just below $81,000 early Thursday, down nearly 1% since midnight UTC. Prices came close to $80,000 on Wednesday before a.

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CEO Tarek Mansour said he feels "pretty good" about the pending outcome of the current legal fight over who has the right to regulate prediction markets. ARLINGTON, Va. — The CEO of Kalshi, the company at the center of a high-profile legal battle over the future of prediction markets in the U.S., said the clash won't ultimately decide whether the rapidly growing industry is overseen by states or a federal.

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U.S.-linked wallets account for just over 88% of tracked AI model payments, dwarfing China’s 0.1% share, according to new Chainalysis research. Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are no longer just talking to each other. They are paying for services, buying data and even purchasing access to tokens the AI models, with more than 138 million transactions recorded through the x402 protocol on Coinbase’s Base blockchain, according to a Chainalysis’ Inside North.

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The blockchain and AI developer platform has completed two years of audits and wants its shares available onchain from the first day of trading. EasyA, a platform that helps developers build blockchain and artificial intelligence applications, reached a $1.1 billion valuation as it prepares to go public in the first half of next year, co-founder and CEO Philip Kwok told CoinDesk in an interview Tuesday. The platform, which was founded.