Opinion:
Gold and precious metal mining is very hazardous for the environment, but nobody teally talks about that ever!
Just some of the impacts of mining precious metals are:
• Deforestation
• Water pollution
• Soil contamination
• Air pollution
• Biodiversity loss
• Waste generation
• Cyanide heap leaching
• Acid mine drainage
• Landscape alteration
🇺🇸 St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank 🇺🇸 releases an article on why a gold standard wouldn’t work, listing gold’s lack of a fixed supply as a “significant problem”.
"Ummmm.... #bitcoin?"
Solo #bitcoin miner does it again!, garnering a block reward of 3.329 BTC.
CK Solo Mining Pool, also known as CKPool, is a solo mining service that allows miners to attempt to find Bitcoin blocks individually without needing to run a full Bitcoin node or download the blockchain. It charges a 2% fee and allows miners to keep 98% of the block reward plus transaction fees directly in their Bitcoin wallet. For this miner, the situation is not much different to winning the lotto.
View the block:
BlackRock has recently surpassed 400,000 BTC in holdings. Collectively, all Bitcoin ETFs hold roughly 1 million BTC, which accounts for about 4% of the total Bitcoin supply. From this, we can deduce that BlackRock owns less than 2% of the total Bitcoin supply.
"Bitcoin is the people's asset."
🇺🇸 Emory University of Atlanta Georgia 🇺🇸 disclosed in SEC filings that it owns over $15 million in Grayscale’s mini Bitcoin ETF, making it the first university to buy #bitcoin.