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Several headlines recently described a 25% drop in bitcoin network difficulty during Winter Storm Finn in January. Most attributed this drop to curtailment activity in Texas. While Texas does represent 17% of the…
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After years of mostly unkind words for the crypto industry, 2023 was the year that U.S. regulators took out the sticks and stones. Following the collapse of criminally mismanaged crypto brand FTX in…