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NiceHash spot marketplace lets miners “take it when needed” originally appeared on TheStreet. In an interview with TheStreet Roundtable, Filip Primec, chief legal officer at NiceHash, highlighted the platform’s decade of innovation and its contract-free model. “NiceHash has been around for ten years already,” he said — “we’re like a dinosaur from the industry with, let’s say, a platform at the core of our business that provides a hash rate marketplace.” Unlike traditional pools that operate their own rigs, NiceHash connects sellers of computing power directly with buyers, routing hash rate to pools chosen by clients. How the spot marketplace works Primec stressed that flexibility is the key advantage. “You don’t sign any contracts...

In an interview with TheStreet Roundtable, Simple Mining director of research and marketing Billy Boone argued that buying Bitcoin outright may not be the most efficient way to gain exposure to the cryptocurrency and that mining could be a smarter alternative. Boone traced Simple Mining’s roots to 2021, when the team pivoted from cell-phone repairs to unlocking ASIC miner passwords. “Simple mining started in 2021. We originally came from a cell phone repair background and we started getting a lot of requests to fix ASIC passwords,” he said. Spotting Bitcoin’s staying power, Simple Mining deployed its first container of 50 machines at a utility site in Iowa that November. Since then, Boone says the firm has grown to operate seven sites...

O, EPR, and STAG: The Top-Tier REITs Paying Hefty Monthly Dividends There’s only one thing better than receiving a quarterly dividend payment: receiving a monthly one. A growing number of companies now provide this feature, with the real estate investment trust (REIT) sector standing out as a particularly rich source. Confident Investing Starts Here: REITs are publicly traded real estate companies that are required to distribute a significant portion of their income to shareholders, making them ideal for income-focused portfolios. Currently, three compelling REITs—Realty Income (O), EPR Properties (EPR), and Stag Industrial (STAG) stand out as prime contenders in the monthly dividend space, with above-average yields to boot. Realty...

Source: US BTC Spot ETF, SoSoValue BlackRock's Larry Fink Responds to Exit Rumors BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) CEO Larry Fink has addressed rumors of his departure from the company, firmly dismissing them. Fink, who co-founded BlackRock in 1988, clarified these speculations during his speech at the firm's annual investor day in New York City on June 12. BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, overseeing $11.5 trillion in assets as of 2024. It has been a pioneer among Wall Street giants in offering crypto-linked funds. Under Fink's guidance, the asset manager launched a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) named the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) in January 2024. The IBIT held $72.55 billion in net assets as of June 11...

GoMining wants to make Bitcoin mining liquid, tradable, and rig-free GoMining lets users mine Bitcoin without ever touching a rig. Instead of buying physical hardware, users purchase digital miners—NFTs backed by real hash power from GoMining’s data centers. Each miner is unique, customizable by efficiency and size, and fully owned on-chain. By using NFTs rather than traditional tokens, GoMining gives miners the ability to upgrade, trade, and scale their assets—transforming what was once a static process into something dynamic and liquid. “Most people think NFT, they think it's a JPEG,” says Jeremy Dreier, Chief Business Development Officer at GoMining. “But it’s the underlying technology that allows each individual miner to have...

Image source: Getty Images. Key Points Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) was no one's idea of a pet cryptocurrency on Thursday. The bellwether meme coin had a rough day on the market, and in late afternoon action, was trading down by nearly 7% as of 4 p.m. ET. That fall was largely because of a decision -- or rather, something of a non-decision -- by a top regulator. A new delay for the dog A clutch of crypto news sites reported that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has again delayed rendering a decision on approving an exchange-traded fund (ETF), Bitwise Dogecoin ETF. That was part of a general delay affecting other altcoin ETFs that have applied to be publicly traded, namely the Grayscale Hedera Trust and the VanEck...

Coinbase to Launch Bitcoin Rewards Card With Amex, While Eyeing U.S. Futures Expansion Crypto exchange Coinbase is planning to launch a credit card that offers bitcoin BTC cashback, the company said on Thursday. The Coinbase One Card, issued in partnership with American Express, includes perks such as earning 4% in BTC after purchases, boosted rewards on USDC stablecoin holdings, and higher staking rewards and transaction credits on Base, the Ethereum layer-2 network developed by the exchange, according to the card's website. The card's rollout is expected this fall. The move comes as more crypto platforms and exchanges are rolling out payment cards to enable users to spend their blockchain-based token stash on everyday purchases...

Bitget's Gracy Chen believed in Ethereum when no one did When Ethereum was stuck around $1,800, Gracy Chen still believed in it. It was during Token2049 in early May when the Bitget CEO expressed her thoughts on Ethereum. ETH was trading sideways, Bitcoin had already crossed $100K, and the entire market had seemingly crowned BTC as the one true asset. Ethereum, meanwhile, had gone quiet. But not for Gracy. “There’s still possibility for an altcoin season and also for the ETH/BTC trading pair to go much higher than it is today. But I just don’t know when that might happen.” At the time, Ether had been stuck in the $1,500 to $2,000 range for months. Even now, it’s hovering around $2,755, as per Kraken's price feeds, which is up from...

Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary forecasts a trillion-dollar Wall Street influx Kevin O'Leary, well-known for his appearance as a judge on the popular TV reality show "Shark Tank," frequently shares his fiery takes on the markets. Now, he expects further crypto regulation to make way for an inflow of a trillion dollars into the market. Once Congress passes the GENIUS Act to regulate stablecoins and the crypto market structure bill to distinguish securities from commodities, then he believes: O'Leary made the observation while speaking to Moneywise in May. The serial investor, who is also known as "Mr. Wonderful," added that though there has been some progress on crypto regulation, more needs to be done on this front because most...

This startup is redesigning Bitcoin mining for a greener future In a market dominated by high-wattage rigs and heat-choked data centers, Auradine is taking a different path—designing Bitcoin mining infrastructure with energy efficiency, environmental adaptability, and long-term sustainability at its core. Founded three years ago, the Silicon Valley startup is rethinking how—and where—Bitcoin gets mined, with an eye toward both technical performance and ecological impact. “To really effectively mine Bitcoin, you need very specialized, leading-edge silicon technology,” said Auradine CEO and co-founder Rajiv Khemani in an interview with TheStreet's Alp Gasimov. “But just as important is how responsibly that energy is used.” While...

Coinbase to launch CFTC-compliant perpetual futures trading in US Coinbase plans to launch perpetual futures trading in the United States, with the offering set to comply with regulatory standards outlined by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a top executive at the crypto exchange said on Thursday. With crypto markets buoyed by hopes of lighter regulation and a renewed risk appetite, exchanges are racing to capitalize on the frenzy by rolling out complex products that were once used primarily by seasoned traders. "We recently launched first-of-its-kind 24/7 futures trading, and I'm excited to share that we'll soon be launching CFTC-compliant perpetual futures trading in the U.S. as well," Max Branzburg, Coinbase's...

AMD Gains on Nvidia? Lisa Su Reveals New Chips in Heated AI Inference Race Advanced Micro Devices Inc made an aggressive bid for dominance in AI inference at its Advancing AI event, unveiling new chips that directly challenge NVIDIA Corporation’s supremacy in the data center GPU market. AMD claims its latest Instinct MI355X accelerators surpass Nvidia’s most advanced Blackwell GPUs in inference performance while offering a significant cost advantage, a critical selling point as hyperscalers look to scale generative AI services affordably. The MI355X, which has just begun volume shipments, delivers a 35-fold generational leap in inference performance and, according to AMD, up to 40% more tokens-per-dollar compared to Nvidia’s flagship...

Trump-linked stablecoin lands on the project launched by his wealthiest VIP guest Justin Sun, the Chinese-born billionaire founder of the TRON blockchain, revealed on X on 11 June that the first USD1 stablecoin has officially been minted on TRON. Sun called the development significant. A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency that, unlike usually volatile cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, aims to maintain a stable value. Pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar, USD1 is a stablecoin launched by World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance (DeFi) project linked to the Trump family. While President Donald Trump himself acts as the chief crypto advocate at the project, his sons Donald Jr., Eric, and Barron act as its ambassadors. The family...

Challenging Ethereum In an interview with TheStreet Roundtable, Alisia Painter, co-founder of Botanix Labs, outlined a plan to migrate decentralized finance from Ethereum onto Bitcoin — rebuilding Bitcoin’s full financial stack on-chain to support its evolution from peer-to-peer cash to a global reserve asset. Painter noted that most DeFi today lives on Ethereum, yet Bitcoin holders have long lacked comparable on-chain options. “Everything that we see in TradFi, we need to bring on-chain and we need to bring it to Bitcoin,” she said — framing Botanix’s mission as a direct challenge to Ethereum’s supremacy. She explained that institutions and everyday investors are eager both to hold and to earn yield on Bitcoin. “They do not want to...

Image source: Getty Images. 3 Long-Term Triggers That Could Double XRP By 2030 Key Points Most investors learn early that markets move when supply meets fresh demand. Right now, XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) changes hands near $2.25 per token. That doesn't scream excitement on its own. It does, however, set a remarkably low bar for upside if three key catalysts keep gathering steam. Each one of these developments builds XRP's core narrative in durable ways. If they converge over the next 5 years (and they look like they will), a 100% move to roughly $4.50 per coin becomes a stretch goal rather than a fantasy. What's more, the triggers are already visible on the blockchain, as well as in boardrooms. Let's examine these three catalysts, the...

Short-seller Chanos questions bitcoin-holding pioneer Strategy's valuation premium Prominent short-seller Jim Chanos has questioned Strategy's valuation premium over its bitcoin holdings, saying Chairman Michael Saylor's tactics to boost the company's returns are "financial gibberish." "...Mr. Saylor wants you to value his business based not only on the net value of his Bitcoin holdings (NAV) at market, but additionally with a multiple on the change in that NAV...," he said in a post on X on Tuesday. Also, in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Wednesday, Chanos said that Strategy's market value should not exceed the value of its bitcoin holdings. As of June 9, the company held 582,000 bitcoins, worth $62.27 billion, while its...

'First crypto president' Trump claims credit for ending Operation Choke Point 2.0 President Donald Trump claimed credit for ending Operation Choke Point 2.0 while speaking to the Coinbase State of Crypto Summit on June 12. Trump said he ended the Biden administration's war on crypto, and his administration unleashed American innovators to do what they do best — lead the world into new frontiers. Operation Choke Point 2.0 is a popular term within the crypto industry that refers to what the industry leaders call a covert effort by U.S. regulators such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to insulate crypto companies from the traditional banking system. The term draws upon the original Operation Choke Point, a 2013...

Trump Confirms China Deal, but Markets Stay Jittery Cryptocurrency markets were slightly optimistic Thursday as China announced it was confirming a trade deal with the United States, which lessened tensions between the two largest economies in the world. The global cryptocurrency market cap is at $3.49 trillion, down 4.1% in the past 24 hours. Bitcoin is down over 2% to $106,947.59, and Ethereum is down 1.4% to $2,732, as per Kraken. The agreement was reached following a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping last week, during which both leaders declared a temporary truce in the trade war. On Wednesday, Trump said on Truth Social, "Deal with China is done, subject to final approval with...

DeFi Adding $5B of Solana Buying Power With New Line of Credit DeFi Development (DFDV), the Nasdaq-listed firm pursuing a Solana (SOL) treasury strategy, is planning to get some more funding to boost its SOL stack. According to a recent press release, the company has secured a $5 billion equity line of credit with RK Capital Management. The agreement allows DeFi Development to sell shares at its discretion, provided it meets conditions like filing a resale registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company stated it plans to file the necessary paperwork soon. "We now have the flexibility and structure we need to scale," said Joseph Onorati, Chief Executive Officer. "This is a clean, strategic path to continue...

Harman introduces Neo QLED technology in Tata Harrier EV Harman has introduced what it claims to be the first in-vehicle display powered by Samsung's Neo QLED technology in the new Tata Harrier EV. This development aims to meet consumer demand for high-quality visual experiences in vehicles, similar to those found in premium televisions and personal devices. The new 14.53in floating Neo QLED display is designed to provide high-quality visuals in various lighting conditions. Key features include a cadmium-free Quantum Dot display with intelligent Blue Mini-LED control, which enhances sustainability and energy efficiency while delivering superior visual performance, according to the company. Harman stated that the display achieves a...