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As bitcoin trades at $81,626—just shy of the $82,000 mark—disparities in mining costs among leading public firms expose striking operational differences, with some companies extracting bitcoin at a fraction of the network’s estimated average. Mining Bitcoin for Profit? It Depends on Who’s Paying the Power Bill On March 11, 2025, bitcoin’s spot price settled at a low of $81,626, bringing mining profitability into focus. Data provider Macromicro.me placed the average cost to mine one BTC at $85,233 as of March 9, a figure based on electricity consumption models. However, this estimate stands in stark contrast to the self-reported expenditures of…

A newly released roadmap of the Stellar Foundation highlights the need to significantly improve on three key areas – Real-World Assets, monthly active addresses, and Decentralized Finance. Stellar seeks to reach a Total Value Locked (TVL) of $1.5 billion in 2025 while supporting lending, saving, and borrowing protocols. The Stellar Foundation has officially unveiled its 2025 roadmap. According to the report shared on X, its operation for the year would be based on three primary objectives bordered around open participation, everyday financial services, trust, and results-driven execution. Source: Denelle Dixon Delving into the Roadmap In the report, the Stellar Foundation…

The team behind Shiba Inu metaverse project, SHIB: The Metaverse, has introduced a mini-game centered around fishing. In an X post on Monday, Shiba Inu’s Marketing Lead, Lucie, highlighted the game, calling the community’s attention to the fishing game set to launch in SHIB: The Metaverse. She emphasized that the game’s purpose is not just for recreational activity but serves as the foundation of a broader in-game economy within the metaverse project. Notably, it requires players to utilize precision and skills to progress through different ranks and eventually become master anglers. Features of SHIB: The Metaverse Fishing Game The mini-game…

Solana is currently a blockchain ecosystem consumed with heightened memecoin activity and market speculation. The platform’s technical advantages, including sub-second finality and low transaction fees, have attracted a surge of speculative projects, prompting comparisons to the BNB Chain, which experienced a similar trajectory during the memecoin boom. Solana-based tokens have driven high-frequency trading activity, echoing the early days of BNB Chain when low fees and Binance’s infrastructure fueled rapid retail adoption. BNB Chain, which rose to prominence in 2021, capitalized on low transaction costs and strong integration with Binance. Projects such as SafeMoon and Baby DogeCoin spurred retail interest, eventually…

Bitcoin has suffered another blow as U.S.-based spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net outflows surging to $365 million. Alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum ETFs also faced a net outflow of $13 million, though BTC’s losses remain the dominant story. Following the significant ETF outflows, Bitcoin’s price has struggled to maintain key support levels. At the time of writing, BTC is hovering near $98,000, consolidating after a sharp decline from recent highs. The asset is currently testing an important support zone around $94,000, which, if broken, could trigger further downside toward $85,000. The negative ETF flows are indicative of investor caution, particularly among institutional…

Zug – Backed Finance has made a bold move in the world of decentralized finance, launching its tokenized version of Coinbase stock ($bCOIN) on the Base network. Available for seamless trading on CoW Swap and supported by a dedicated pool on Aerodrome, this milestone brings traditional financial assets into the decentralized era, offering 24/7 access to tokenized equities on the blockchain.—Backed’s $bCOIN provides a legally compliant, 1:1 backed representation of Coinbase stock, designed for easy transferability and trading without intermediaries. This is a pivotal moment for on-chain finance, demonstrating Backed’s ability to lead the way in the evolving landscape of…

Pi Network, the smartphone mining project that claims to have 60 million users, released its native PI token Thursday giving traders a roller-coaster ride that saw the price rise 18% in minutes before tumbling 50% over the next two hours. PI debuted at $1.70 at 09:00 UTC, rising to as high as $2.00. It was recently trading at $0.97. The initial surge sent the fully diluted value (FDV) to as high as $195 billion — almost double the value of the Solana blockchain’s SOL. The FDV is based on the maximum supply of a token, 100 billion in this case.…

Renowned investor Robert Kiyosaki, also known for authoring a popular book on finance management titled “Rich Dad Poor Dad”, has published yet another “giant crash” prediction and highlighted his firm belief in Bitcoin as a key asset in the market. According to a recent tweet, the popular author and podcaster also revealed his “after-the-crash plan”—he intends to buy more Bitcoin. Over the past 24 hours, the world’s primary cryptocurrency has added 1.65%, recovering from $96,870 to $98,540, where it is changing hands at the time of writing this. Kiyosaki will not sell his Bitcoin if BTC crashes Financial guru Kiyosaki…

Shares of bitcoin (BTC) miner Core Scientific (CORZ) were down 15% in pre-market on Thursday after reports that Microsoft (MSFT) has pulled back from some agreements with soon to listed cloud computing firm CoreWeave. Last month, Core Scientific said it was planning a $1.2 billion data center expansion with CoreWeave. This week, CoreWeave filed for an intital public offering, hoping to raise $4 billion at a $35 billion valuation. According to an FT article, CoreWeave, which supplies artificial intelligence (AI) computing power to Microsoft, was facing delivery issues and missed deadlines, causing the tech giant to reduce its commitments, though…

A major Solana ($SOL) investor has been making big moves. In just two days, the whale staked 134,482 SOL, worth $22.85 million. Lookonchain reports that the investor pulled $7.98 million worth of 47,154 SOL from Binance just few hours before. The staking process followed after the investment of the entire funds. This whale withdrew another 47,154 $SOL($7.98M) from #Binance 10 hours ago and staked it.In the past 3 days, this whale has withdrawn a total of 134,482 $SOL($22.85M) from #Binance and staked it.https://t.co/jPXp5mjB5n pic.twitter.com/QBZZb1S9pJ — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) February 20, 2025 SOL Whale Withdrawals Strengthen Market Sentiment This whale has withdrawn…