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How the average cost of bitcoin mining has changed, how US trade duties affect mining, and what the market's prospects are in the next few years
Mining bitcoin is getting more expensive. The largest Western mining companies, whose shares are traded on the stock exchange, spent an average of $82,162 to produce one bitcoin in the fourth quarter of 2024. This is according to a new report from research company CoinShares. By comparison, just a quarter earlier, the average cash cost was $55,950. Thus

Crypto industry and banking representatives are beginning to expand into each other's niches
A number of cryptocurrency companies are planning to apply for banking licenses in the United States, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. At the same time, several large banks are studying the possibility of entering the crypto industry.
Some U.S. cryptocurrencies are interested in becoming a national trust or industrial bank, which would allow them to operate

What stimulus the crypto market needs for altcoins. Bitcoin holds its position better than other cryptocurrencies, but alternative digital coins need liquidity
There are no conditions for altcoins to start growing now, Matrixport analysts believe. They published a market review under the title “Altcoins Come and Go - Only Bitcoin Remains” (Altcoins Come and Go - Only Bitcoin Remains). According to their assessment, alternative cryptocurrencies to bitcoin will not be able to start growing until n

What is tokenomics. What basic elements the economic model of cryptoprojects includes
Before making investment decisions, you should consider many different factors that can affect the value of a cryptocurrency asset. A fundamental element of almost any cryptocurrency is tokenomics, a term that refers to the economic model of the project.
What is tokenomics
Tokenomics (token and economics) is an economic model of a token that takes into account the interests of project participants, including th

Tether has allowed the issuance of a separate stablecoin in the US
Tether is studying the possibility of launching a new stablecoin for institutional clients in the U.S., the company's head Paolo Ardoino told Bloomberg in an interview. He explained the idea of launching a token different from USDT for US companies by the request of the local market.
Ardoino estimates that 40% of all USDT holders in the world use the token as a savings instrument. In emerging markets, in countries where local cur

The spaceship will fly over the poles of the Earth for the first time, one of the goals of the flight was to be able to observe the polar lights from space
Cryptomillionaire Chun Wang has funded and led SpaceX's space mission called Fram2. The Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying a civilian crew was launched into Earth's orbit on the evening of March 31.
“Today we ranked 681st among those who flew over the Kármán line and 626th among those who circled the Earth,” Chun wrote in X.
 The Kármán line in

Why the crypto market is following US stocks, what investors predict and what investors fear in April
US macroeconomic factors continue to affect the crypto market and bitcoin ($BTC ), particularly due to investors categorizing cryptocurrencies as risky assets. Experts from 10x Research attributed this to investors' anticipation of new U.S. trade duties, which are scheduled to be imposed starting April 2. In addition to the duties, analysts noted the impact of investors' concerns about rising in

Top managers of the media business owned by the US president intend to raise hundreds of millions to buy cryptocurrency companies
Executives at Trump Media, owned by U.S. President Donald Trump, have created a special purpose entity (SPAC) with the goal of acquiring cryptocurrency or blockchain companies. According to Forbes, Renatus, which is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, plans to raise at least $179 million through an initial public and private placement.
Renatus' management team, which

Expectations around the US cryptocurrency reserve failed to materialize and the market reacted with a decline, but the long-term consequences of this move could be much more significant
The creation of the US cryptocurrency reserve raised expectations in the market, but did not lead to a rise in prices - on the contrary, bitcoin and other assets continued to fall. Why this happened and how to look at it in the long term, our analysts analyze.
The US President did sign an executive order to creat

What will change for Ethereum users and what the major innovations will be as part of the major Pectra update
In April 2025, the Ethereum blockchain network is slated for one of the largest upgrades in recent years, dubbed Pectra. The implementation includes mechanisms to increase scalability, reduce transaction fees, improve staking rewards for node operators, and make the network easier for end users to use.
On March 5, developers successfully activated the Pectra update on the Sepolia test ne

The developers of the popular cryptocurrency wallet MetaMask announced that it will support bitcoin, as well as tokens and applications of the Solana ecosystem.
According to the updated roadmap, $SOL integration is scheduled for May, and bitcoin compatibility is scheduled for the third quarter of 2025. The developers announced plans to add bitcoin a year ago.
MetaMask has more than 100 million users worldwide, according to the service. Since 2021, more than 5 billion transactions have been condu

Token sniping is a race for milliseconds. Bots instantly buy up assets, selling them at a profit while regular traders remain at a loss. Let's find out how it works and what risks are hidden behind this tactic
The launch of a new token on decentralized exchanges (DEX) is always a volatile event. In the first seconds after the start of trading, the price can rise thousands of times, attracting the attention of traders. However, behind this excitement are often automated strategies of large player

James Howells, who 12 years ago threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins, is considering buying a city dump after the municipality refused to help him find it
Briton James Howells, who threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 $BTC in 2013, is considering buying the entire city dump to search for the device, The Guardian reports. Previously, the Newport city administration refused to help him, and the court sided with the officials, but Howells has not given up hope of finding his savin

In February 2025, several important updates to several popular crypto projects and the launch of new parties of tokens are scheduled for the market
Movement (MOVE): Starting the main network
The Movement Labs project is actively working on integrating the MoveVM virtual machine into the Ethereum ecosystem. A test network was launched in December 2024 and the main developer network was launched on January 28, allowing select partners to begin implementing MoveVM-based decentralized finance (DeFi)

Trump signed an executive order to regulate the crypto market. The document is designed to strengthen US leadership in digital finance
Donald Trump signed an executive order to regulate the crypto market and consider creating a cryptocurrency reserve. The executive order on “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology” is published on the White House website.
The document initiates the creation of a working group to develop a “federal regulatory framework for digital assets

On January 17, two airdrops from major cryptoprojects became publicly known at once. The SoSoValue platform and the Orbiter blockchain bridge will release and distribute their tokens. Let's break it down in more detail.
SoSoValue
SoSoValue, a cryptocurrency market data provider best known as an aggregator of information on cryptocurrency exchange traded fund (ETF) shares, has announced that it is giving away 49 million SOSO tokens. The project will release its token next week on the Ethereum blo

In total, about 10 million new bitcoin addresses were created over the past 2024. The balance of 56 thousand of them exceeded $1 million
Throughout 2024, an average of 154 addresses with bitcoin balances worth more than $1 million were created every day, according to Finbold's research. The total number of such addresses increased by about 56,000 over the past year.
On December 31, 2023, their number was just under 97 thousand, and on the last day of 2024 - just over 153 thousand, i.e. an increa

Grayscale analysts have identified promising cryptocurrencies for the first quarter of 2025. Which cryptoprojects have the greatest potential
One of the oldest cryptocurrency companies - Grayscale - has published a quarterly report on the cryptocurrency market, in which it has revised its list of 20 promising cryptocurrency projects for the first three months of 2025.
Once a quarter, Grayscale Research analysts research hundreds of cryptoassets to evaluate and rebalance the company's proprietary

The crypto market expects the actions of US President-elect Donald Trump's administration to have a positive impact on the entire blockchain industry.
In addition, part of the community expects the fulfillment of election promises to include bitcoin in the national reserve. Experts believe that the emergence of a national bitcoin reserve in 2025 is unlikely, but in the coming year they expect the trend of adding the main cryptocurrency for the reserves of individual companies to strengthen.
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How it is possible to increase max BTC supply and what consequences it may have
BlackRock has questioned one of the main distinguishing features of bitcoin from other assets and currencies - a hard limit of 21 million bitcoin coins. We talk about how the number of bitcoins could be increased and the implications for the major cryptocurrency if this happens.
On the website of iShares, a company owned by BlackRock that manages dozens of its exchange-traded funds (ETFs), a three-minute instructiona