
This additional financing will allow the company to further grow their miner count and expand infrastructure, they added. Bitfarms, a Canadian listed BTC mining operation, said it raised CAD 40m (USD 30m) in a private placement in the United States.The machines arrive after two years of planning and legal obstacles that slowed the exchange’s progress. One is located in the flagship branch of the Excelsior Gama chain in the La Trinidad district, with the other in the 2dóce store, in Las Mercedes, one of Latin America’s biggest shopping and leisure districts. In a YouTube video posted to its channel, Cryptobuyer explained that the ATMs had been installed in supermarkets in the capital. The Panama-based crypto exchange Cryptobuyer has expanded the scope of its fast-growing reach in Venezuela by unveilings its first BTC ATM in Caracas.( Learn more: Bitcoin Mining in 2021: Growth, Consolidation, Renewables, and Regulation) Bitcoin mining difficulty, the measure that shows how hard it is to compete for mining rewards, has reached a new all-time high of 21.43 T on February 6, having gone up 2.9%.According to the analyst, Apple could also consider adding bitcoin (BTC) or another digital currency to its balance sheet: "This would send even more users to 'Apple Exchange'."

US tech giant Apple could create for itself "a clear multi-billion dollar opportunity" if it were to develop its Apple Wallet into a crypto exchange, Mitch Steves, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, suggested, as reported by Bloomberg.Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
