No more cheap electricity for Inner Mongolian crypto miners, officials say

The halcyon days of state subsidized electricity are over. Officials from Inner Mongolia are mulling an electrical policy that would prevent cryptocurrency miners from using inexpensive, state-subsidized electricity. Per the Inner Mongolia Electric Power Group Co, the region expects to recover around 6.732 billion yuan ($977 million) in taxes and fees thanks to these new […]

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MasterCard Asia files patent for Tangle-based device billing system

Blockchain could help shared device merchants avoid credit card fees, MasterCard says. MasterCard’s Singapore-based subsidiary filed a patent with the U.S. Patent Office detailing a payment system for using hardware devices that specifically mentions Iota’s (MIOTA) Tangle technology.  The patent claim, published on Aug. 20, proposes a pay-as-you-go system that uses a “transparent data storage […]

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Becoming an ‘accredited investor’ in the US is no longer just about being rich

The SEC has relaxed rules that once prioritized net worth over financial sophistication. The Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, is now amending its definition of an “accredited investor” to relax the purely wealth-based requirements, after announcing such plans in December 2019. Accredited investors in the U.S. enjoy special privileges with the SEC — namely […]

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