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Today, Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) and Core Scientific (Nasdaq: CORZ) have announced a new partnership focused on further decentralizing mining hardware. This collaboration introduces Block’s advanced 3 nanometer (3nm) mining ASICs, created by…
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Coinbase has joined Andreessen Horowitz and Ripple in donating $25 million to the crypto-focused super PAC ahead of the United States elections. Source link
![House Republicans urge tighter export controls on advanced chips House Republicans urge tighter export controls on advanced chips](https://images.cointelegraph.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=840/https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/2023-10/241ce89d-fd56-4fe2-8446-e27cf814e53a.jpg)
On Friday, Oct. 6, two senior Republican members of the United States House of Representatives urged the Biden administration to strengthen the enforcement of export controls on advanced semiconductors to China. In a…