El Salvador sees greener crypto-currency mining in its future

Energy-intensive cryptocurrency "mining" is done by computers, and has come under criticism from environmentalists as a big source of demand for mostly fossil fuel-derived electricity.

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Jack Dorsey Says Square Is Looking to Build a Bitcoin Mining System

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has said this fintech company Square is looking to build a Bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals as well as businesses.

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Amazon-owned Twitch says source code exposed in last week's data breach

Twitch said it was "confident" the incident affected only a small number of users and that it was contacting those who had been directly impacted. The platform has more than 30 million average daily visitors.

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Amazon-owned Twitch Says Source Code Exposed in Last Week's Data Breach

Twitch said on Friday that last week's data breach at the live streaming e-sports platform contained documents from its source code, but did not expose sensitive user data.

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Square CEO Jack Dorsey says looking to build a bitcoin mining system

This would add to Square's existing bitcoin-focused projects including a business to build an open developer platform, as well as a hardware wallet for the cryptocurrency.

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Signal Co-Founder Moxie Marlinspike Creates NFT That Renders as 'Poop' Emoji When You Buy It

Singal Co-Founder Moxie Marlinspike aims to highlight the fact that digital collectables could be at the mercy of file hosts who operate independently from the blockchain. To demonstrate, he has created an NFT that renders as a 'poop' emoji in people's digital wallets after they have bought it.

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Crypto ETFs explained

Reports and rumours that the US SEC was set to approve the launch of one or more bitcoin ETFs has sent prices of the cryptocurrency soaring. But, what exactly ate crypto ETFs?

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