-The second week of 2022 saw the price of BTC drop below $ 40,000 and the price of ETH drop below $3,000, at the same time BTC hashrate hit a new record.
- Canadian mining company Bitfarms said it bought an additional 1,000 bitcoins for $ 43.2 million in the first week of 2022. The company now holds 4,300 BTC.
- NBA players (Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala) announce that they will receive a portion of their salaries in Bitcoin.
- New version of Norton 360 antivirus would mine Ethereum by default, sometimes even without user consent, service commission is 15%. (BBC)
- The next step of the update to Ethereum 2.0 "The Merge" should take place in June and will be very energy efficient, without reducing costs.
- Bank of America (the 2nd largest bank in the United States) estimated in a report that the Solana blockchain could become the "Visa" of the world of digital assets due to its scalability, low transaction fees and of its ease of use. (CoinDesk)
- Cardano has partnered with Vertitree to plant a tree every time a TREE token is redeemed. The million mark has been crossed (CoinDesk)
- Elrond (see my post about ecosystem) acquires Utrust the leading crypto payments provider ready for Web3 in order to improve speed, cost and security of payments with blockchain technology (to celebrate this news, you can participate to the challenge to win $EGLD and $UTK here).
- Near protocol can count on an additional $150 million thanks to the participation of Three Arrows Capital, Dragonfly and a16z.
- The Dogecoin payment option is now available for the purchase of certain Tesla accessories.
- The mayor of Rio de Janeiro has said he plans to allocate 1% of the city's reserves to Bitcoin. It also opened up the possibility of offering a reduction of up to 10% to those who pay taxes in Bitcoin.
- The CEO of Binance CZ would have accumulated an estimated fortune of $96 billion excluding digital assets. (Bloomberg)
- China has added mining to the list of industries to be abandoned. The last miners will now leave the country.
- Tonga will copy El Salvador's bill making Bitcoin legal tender. In a decision "almost identical to El Salvador's bill," Lord Fusitu'a predicts that his country could adopt bitcoin by November.
