Best in the Business: Energy Efficiency Proving Major Drawcard for Fantom

One of the fastest-growing blockchain platforms utilized by crypto traders is leading the world in terms of energy efficiency, bringing some of the lowest kWh used per transaction available anywhere on the globe today.

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ConsenSys Launches NFT Ecosystem With 99% More Energy Efficiency Than PoW

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Inner Mongolia Shutting Down Crypto Mining Operations to Reach Higher Energy Efficiency

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China’s Inner Mongolia Plans to Shut Down Bitcoin Mining Operations by April This Year

Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region in northern China, is planning to shut down all cryptocurrency mining activities in the area by April 2021, as part of efforts to improve energy efficiency. Regulating the Electrical Consumption in Inner Mongolia The government of Inner Mongolia will also stop approving new projects in energy-intensive industries such as steel […]

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China’s Inner Mongolia to shut down crypto mining farms by April

Inner Mongolia drew the ire of Beijing after failing to meet energy efficiency goals.

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Fantom and Afghanistan Energy Giant DABS Collaborate to Boost Efficiency

Blockchain network Fantom has entered an agreement with a leading energy company in Afghanistan, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS). The partnership will see the two companies launch a blockchain pilot towards achieving this goal.

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Apple Co-Founder launches new Ethereum Token, Efforce

Blockchain and crytocurrency adoption in the mainstream is getting loud and clear, with the latest news that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is launching a new Ethereum token. The token, called Efforce, will be facilitating investments in energy efficiency projects via blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.

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Apple Co-Founder Wozniak’s New Venture Lists Token to Help Fund Energy Efficiency Projects

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has launched Efforce, a company that facilitates investments in energy efficiency projects via cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

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Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak Opens Blockchain Firm

Steve Wozniak is now taking aim at the $241 billion energy efficiency market. The Apple co-founder announced the public launch of Efforce, a blockchain-driven energy saving platform. Efforce will raise funds for energy-saving projects through token sales.

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Money Reimagined: Climate-Friendlier Crypto

How Bitcoin can improve its energy efficiency, reduce its climate impact and help manage the electricity grid.

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Bitcoin Halving 2020: The ‘Arms Race’ for Miner Efficiency Intensifies

In the lead-up to the next bitcoin halving event in May, some bitcoin miners are looking at leveraging what some describe as “surplus energy” to make operations even more cost-effective.

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Following BTC hashrate, Bitcoin’s energy consumption is on the rise

Despite the efficiency improvements that BTC mining hardware has experienced over the years, Bitcoin’s electricity consumption is on the rise, according to a recent report. Bitcoin’s energy consumption ‘is on par with Czech Republic’ Bitcoin miners are usually described as the backbone of the Bitcoin network.

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IOTA Use Cases Rapidly Expanding: Tangle To Solve World’s Waste Problem

The Biota team wants to use IOTA technology to tackle the waste problem. The Tangle will help develop a deposit system that rewards people for collecting plastic waste. IOTA technology for waste separation Decentralised technologies are not necessarily perceived by the public to be the best in terms of energy efficiency and CO2 emissions.

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Spring Labs To Create Blockchain Registry For $5.6B Energy Loans Market

Spring Labs, a blockchain-centered startup has acquired a license to track the liens registry in the $5.6 billion energy-efficiency loan market using DLT, reported Bloomberg. The main goal of the startup would be streamlining the loaning process using the decentralized tech to cut frauds and increase overall efficiency. As per the deal, four lenders under […]

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Crypto Miners in Republic of Uzbekistan Slammed with 3x Taxes on Electricity

On Friday, September 27, 2019, the government of the Republic of Uzbekistan has decided to triple taxes on electricity for crypto miners. Approved by the Cabinet of Ministers and embedded in, “On Accelerated Measures to Improve Energy Efficiency in Economic and Social Sectors, Implementation Energy Saving Technologies and the Development of Renewable Energy Sources,” the […]

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TRON Launches Version 1.0 Code of SUN Network

TRON (TRX), a leading distributed ledger technology (DLT) project that’s home to a vast array of decentralized applications (dApps) has officially launched the version 1. 0 code of SUN Network, a scaling solution that enables dApps to run without consuming massive amount of energy, while also operating with high efficiency, and water-tight security on the TRONRead MoreRead More.

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Вышел релиз Sun Network, призванный улучшить производительность сети TRON

Разработчики криптовалютного проекта TRON объявили о релизе первой версии кодовой базы Sun Network. Among #SUNNetwork, #DAppChain is a side chain scaling project designed to provide unlimited scaling capacity for the TRON MainNet, enabling #DApps to run with lower #Energy consumption, higher security and efficiency on #TRON.

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Состоялся релиз решения Sun Network для «неограниченного» масштабирования сети TRON

Разработчики криптовалютного проекта TRON объявили о релизе первой версии кодовой базы Sun Network. Among #SUNNetwork, #DAppChain is a side chain scaling project designed to provide unlimited scaling capacity for the TRON MainNet, enabling #DApps to run with lower #Energy consumption, higher security and efficiency on #TRON.

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Steve Wozniak Co-Founds Efforce to Enhance Energy Efficiency through Blockchain in Malta

Coinspeaker Steve Wozniak Co-Founds Efforce to Enhance Energy Efficiency through Blockchain in MaltaThe Co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, has gone to Malta and co-founded Efforce, a blockchain-based cost-effective company, to increase energy supply while reducing the impact on the environment.

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NEM blockchain venture arm invests in tokenized smart meter energy app

NEM Ventures, the venture capital and investment arm of the NEM blockchain ecosystem, has announced an investment in Ample, which uses distributed ledger technology to tokenize energy consumption rights at the user level, creating a new economy for energy efficiency.

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Wasted Naysayers Continue to Flog Wasteful Energy-Consuming Bitcoin

By CCN Markets: Here we go again. Yet another article has surfaced taking potshots at the perceived threat of Bitcoin’s energy consumption. A recent article out of MIT Technology Review claims that: Mining Bitcoin is a hugely wasteful process.

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SOLISMEA ICO

SOLISMEA is a brand new service on the market, offering a solution for a low energy cost and eco-friendly way of mining cryptocurrency. We are working with the latest technologies available to keep carbon footprint on a minimum while maximizing efficiency.

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Rise of Mining Efficiency

The problem of improving the energy efficiency of mining has already matured in 2015, becoming by 2019 an acute problem of the industry, which cast doubt on any prospects for further development. The share of mining cryptocurrency in global power consumption by 2019 represents a percentage of global power consumption.

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BitDeer.com Antminer S17 Mining Plans Now on Sale

Singapore – BitDeer. com, the leading computing power-sharing platform, has just kicked off the presale of S17 mining plans deploying the recently revealed Antminer S17 series miners. BitDeer’s S17 plans support BTC/BCH mining, and will be offered in 120-day, 180-day, 240-day, and 360-day durations.

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Elrond – Infrastructure for the New Digital Economy

It’s well established now that decentralized cryptocurrencies and smart contracts provide dependable, secure solutions for sending money and receiving electronic payments. They can be used for creating decentralized applications (dApps) and also ultimately as digital store of value.

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Bitmain Reveals Specifications for Its ‘Profitable’ Antminer 17 Series

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Chloe Jiang. Bitmain, the world’s largest bitcoin miner manufacturer, has announced specifications for its Antminer 17 series machines, which will be globally available on April 9, 2019.

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Bitmain announces global release date of new Antminer S17; claims it has improved energy efficiency

Bitmain, the Chinese mining giant, recently announced that its Antminer S17 will be globally released on 9 April 2019. Earlier this month, the mining giant had revealed the new model of its Antminer 17 series machines to mine Equihash-powered Proof-of-Work coins.

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Bitmain Announces Antminer s17 Date: Can It Turn the Company’s Fortunes Around?

Cryptomining manufacturer Bitmain has revealed the release date for its next-generation Antminer S17 series. The S17 set of miners includes the Antminer S17 Pro, Antminer S17 and the Antminer T17.

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PR: Bitcoin.com Partners With Jeju Blockchain Smartcity Association to Spread BCH Adoption

Roger Ver, CEO of Bitcoin. com has agreed to help the Jeju Blockchain Smartcity Association grow the BCH ecosystem. On March 25th, Roger Ver agreed to collaborate with the Jeju Blockchain Smarcity Association in Korea.

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AI can help fight climate change by optimizing energy efficiency

Man-made climate change is an undeniable fact, and the need to mitigate its damage is all too real. We need to make drastic changes in the next 12 years to prevent climate disasters and reach our goal of restricting an increase in global temperature to 1.

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Bitmain Launches New Energy-Efficient 7nm ASIC Chip for Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash

Bitmain, the largest mining hardware manufacturer in the world, has launched a new 7nm ASIC mining chip which achieves new levels of performance, chip size, and energy efficiency for mining Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

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Bitmain launches new 7nm ASIC chip for bitcoin mining

Bitmain, the crypto, blockchain, and AI development company, today announced its next-generation 7nm ASIC chip, BM1397, which achieves new benchmarks in performance, chip area and energy efficiency for mining cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), that use the SHA256 algorithm... Source

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Bitmain Unveils Its Latest Energy-Efficient Mining Chip for Bitcoin

China-based mining giant Bitmain has announced a new mining rig that uses less power. The hardware mining manufacturer has launched a 7nm application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) processor dubbed the BM1397.

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Bitmain Unveils New 7nm ASIC Chip After Dismal 2018

Bitmain Technologies has announced a new iteration of its 7-nanometer Bitcoin mining chip. The cryptocurrency mining hardware behemoth says the new and improved 7-nm chip offers greater energy efficiency for mining operations.

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Op Ed: How Bitcoin’s Protocol of Peace Can End the Nuclear Age

Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people.

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Bitmain Announces New, More Efficient 7nm Bitcoin Mining Chip

Bitmain Technologies has announced a new 7nm bitcoin mining processor that it says offers a big boost in energy efficiency.

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Blockchain Technology Faces data Protection Restrictions in Green Energy Sector

As blockchain technology continues to widen in adoption, industries all over the world are beginning to integrate distributed ledger systems into their business operations to create more transparency and efficiency.

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Saiterm ICO

Our goal is to finance the development of the production and marketing of a physical, totally innovative product for high efficiency heating of environments, remaining independent and autonomous, financing via the blockchain, the creation of production and commercial facilities necessary for the production and distribution of the most efficient heating system in the world, a system already designed, patented, implemented and tested.

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Fujitsu Claims 40% Efficiency Boost for Blockchain Electricity Exchange

Japanese IT giant Fujitsu has developed a blockchain-based exchange system that it says produces a more stable energy supply at peak periods.

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Blockchain Tech and the Energy Industry: More Decentralization and Greater Efficiency

Blockchain is helping to make decentralized energy networks a reality

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The quiet threat inside ‘internet of things’ devices

As Americans increasingly buy and install smart devices in their homes, all those cheap interconnected devices create new security problems for individuals and society as a whole. The problem is compounded by businesses radically expanding the number of sensors and remote monitors it uses to manage overhead lights in corporate offices and detailed manufacturing processes in factories.

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Spanish Energy Supplier Iberdrola Uses Blockchain to Prove 100% Of Energy Supplied is Renewable

Iberdrola, a highly reputed Spanish energy company, in conjunction with Kutxabank and the Energy Web Foundation distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform, has reportedly used the tech to prove the renewability, transparency and cost efficiency of electricity it generates for users, reported Europa Press on Jan 14, 2019.

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Reliance Industries Invests $5 Million to Digitize Energy Trading

In a bid to accelerate its efficiency and productivity via blockchain technology, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), a Mumbai-based conglomerate holding firm that deals in petrochemicals, telecommunications.

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Abu Dhabi National Oil Firm Adopts IBM’s Blockchain Solution

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), a leading diversified energy and petrochemicals group that claims to produce roughly 3 million barrels of oil and 10. 5 cubic feet of natural gas daily, has joined forces with IBM  to enable it integrate distributed ledger technology (DLT) into its operations and reduce risks while fostering transparency and efficiency, according to a press.

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World’s First Blockchain-Based Oil Trading Platform Launched

VAKT, a blockchain-based consortium formed by leading oil and energy sector companies announced the launch of its commodity post-trade management platform through a press release dated November 29, 2018.

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Wide Energy ICO

Wide Energy tries hard to lead the world's transition from relying on traditional fuels to renewable and cleaner energy. Our goals is to make a better and cleaner energy at a lower price that will enable any entity, company and industry to shift its operations to become more environmental-friendly We are keen on new technologies, knowledge and innovations that can contribute to the efficiency of renewable energy generation and utilization.

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Bitmain’s New 7nm Chip Miners Are Available for Purchase Today

Chinese mining giant Bitmain's 7nm Bitcoin miners go on sale today, November 8, 2018. Announced in September of 2018, the miners allegedly offer considerably faster hash rates (though Bitmain didn’t disclose any specifications) and come in two separate Antminer models: the S15 and T15.

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Bitfury Secures $80M in Private Funding Round

Cryptocurrency mining firm Bitfury Group has closed a Series C, $80 million funding round led by EU-based Korelya Capital. The round also included crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital, Lian and Jabre Group, Dentsu Inc.

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Blockchain Brainiac Says Serenity Upgrade Will Give Ethereum 1,000x Increase In Transactions Per Second

Serenity Upgrade Will Give Ethereum Thousand Fold Increase In Transactions Per Second Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, told an audience in Prague that the network is preparing for the next upgrade to the second largest blockchain network.

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