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The meme coin Bonk (BONK) has been on a strange journey in late 2023, having experienced several veritable price explosions that brought it as much as 10,000% in the green over the past 52 weeks. Despite this, and despite even briefly surpassing Dogecoin (DOGE) as the most-traded meme coin after getting listed on the largest publicly-traded cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), it still remains an underdog among cryptocurrencies. As a meme coin launched on the Solana (SOL) blockchain, it also benefited from the developments that saw SOL itself rise more than 800% in a year. Additionally, the recent surge in sales of the Solana Saga smartphone and the associated BONK airdrops, have spearheaded a recent increase in the demand for the meme coin. Given its significant volatility and impressive yet brief price surges, Finbold decided to consult the predictive artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms of CoinCodex on where Bonk might stand when the New Year rolls around in jus...

Bitcoin miner supplier Bitmain has released its brand-new Antminer T21, featuring a computing power of 190 TH/s and an energy efficiency ratio of 19 J/TH. Bitmain, a major global manufacturer of Bitcoin (BTC) application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), has officially released its new air-cooled BTC miner, Antminer T21. Bitmain took to Twitter on Oct. 26 to announce the world premiere of the new Antminer T21, the firm’s new air-cooling miner that can withstand ambient temperatures up to 45 degrees Celsius. According to Bitmain’s head of marketing, Xmei Lin, the Ant miner T21’s global release happened at the Blockchain Life 2023 Forum in Dubai, where Bitmain was a “diamond sponsor.” Bitmain’s brand-new mining device is expected to start shipping in January 2024, the company’s spokesperson told Cointelegraph. The air-cooling miner supports the SHA256 mining algorithm used for mining proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, as well as forked coins like Bitcoin Cash (BCH...

HashKey, along with OSL, received a major license upgrade on Aug.3 clearing their way to offer crypto trading services to retail customers. Asian cryptocurrency exchange HashKey is set to start offering Bitcoin and Ether crypto trading services to retail customers in Hong Kong starting on August 28, according to a local media report. Investors will only be allowed to invest up to 30% of their net worth into cryptocurrencies when using the platform HashKey became the first crypto exchange in Hong Kong to get regulatory clearance to offer crypto trading services to retail traders after upgrading two major licenses issued by the country’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). The first license known as Type 1, made way for HashKey to start a virtual asset trading platform under Hong Kong’s securities laws. The second license called Type 7, allows the crypto exchange to provide automated trading services to both institutional as well as retail users. Apart from HashKey, another ...