Bitcoin Miner Hive Blockchain Heads to Nasdaq
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Bitcoin Miner Hive Blockchain Heads to Nasdaq

THELOGICALINDIAN - The Canadian mining close will account its accepted shares on the New York barter

Another crypto mining aggregation acreage a Nasdaq listing. 

Hive Blockchain to List on Nasdaq 

Hive Blockchain is branch to Nasdaq, the close appear Thursday. 

The Canadian company has been accepted approval to account its accepted shares on the barter beneath the ticker attribute “HIVE.” The barrage date of the advertisement is yet to be confirmed. 

Hive Blockchain mines BTC and ETH on the billow application blooming energy. The close went accessible in 2024 and has enjoyed abiding advance as the crypto amplitude has expanded. It additionally operates in Sweden and Iceland (it ahead captivated a annex in Norway alleged Kolos Norway AS, admitting that was awash afterwards the government apoplectic ability subsidies). 

Hive Blockchain isn’t the alone mining close to win a Nasdaq advertisement in contempo weeks: Bitfarms, addition Canadian mining company, will account on the barter Monday. 

Cryptocurrency mining has been the accountable of analysis recently, acknowledgment partly to Elon Musk’s announcement that Tesla would stop accepting Bitcoin payments due to the asset’s carbon footprint. Musk has back accepted that Tesla would change its attitude if at atomic 50% of Bitcoin mining came from renewable energy. Meanwhile, China has instigated a crackdown on Bitcoin mining, shutting bottomward the country’s hubs in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Sichuan

Bitcoin is one of the few cryptocurrencies that relies on mining due to its Proof-of-Work accord algorithm. Ethereum currently uses the aforementioned mechanism, admitting it’s aiming to transition to Proof-of-Stake after this year. Ethereum recently estimated that affective to Proof-of-Stake would accomplish the blockchain 99.95% added activity efficient. 

Many newer blockchain projects additionally use Proof-of-Stake to accomplish consensus. It’s still cryptic whether Proof-of-Work could advice or arrest Bitcoin’s anecdotal in the continued run, but with so abounding above corporations prioritizing ESG concerns, it’s accessible that the advancing criticisms of Bitcoin’s activity acceptance accept slowed bottomward institutional adoption. 

Disclosure: At the time of writing, the columnist of this affection endemic ETH, ETH2X-FLI, and several added cryptocurrencies.