• Blockseer mining pool censor
    Is a mining pool filtering out "nefarious" transactions on Bitcoin's blockchain a threat or a step forward? (Photo: Pixabay/Gerd Altmann)
    Bitcoin,  Technology

    Blockseer’s new mining pool: Compliance or censorship?

    DMG Blockchain Solutions is creating a mining pool that will filter out “nefarious” transactions using tools like the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control’s BTC address blacklist

    November 11, 2020 /

    Former Monero lead maintainer Riccardo Spagni—who has 117,000 followers on his @Fluffypony Twitter account—called out Blockseer’s new mining pool for “advertising that it censors transactions as a key selling point.”

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  • DMG energy export license
    Washington state's Grand Coulee Dam—the largest hydroelectric producer in the U.S.—could soon be powering DMG's Bitcoin mining (Photo: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation)
    Bitcoin,  Technology

    U.S. grants energy export license to crypto mining firm DMG

    The license from the Department of Energy will allow the Canadian firm to mine crypto more profitably, cut into China’s mining dominance

    September 24, 2020 /

    According to an announcement, DMG Blockchain Solutions will leverage the license to acquire the cheapest electrical energy from within the U.S. and Canada to power its mining and computing efforts.

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