MARA has announced its plan to acquire a wind farm in Hansford County, Texas, with 240 MW of interconnection capacity and 114 MW of wind generation. This acquisition aims to power a data center using the wind farm’s renewable energy, significantly reducing electricity costs. The project is part of MARA’s Advanced ASIC Retirement Initiative, which ...
President Vladimir Putin has signed a new law aimed at regulating cryptocurrency mining and transactions in Russia. This law acknowledges digital currencies as property and amends the country’s Tax Code. While cryptocurrency mining and sales will not incur value-added tax, operators must report their activities or face fines. Cryptocurrency trading will attract a 13% income ...
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed a year-long software supply chain attack on the npm package registry, initiated by the seemingly harmless library @0xengine/xmlrpc. This package, which originally functioned as a JavaScript XML-RPC server for Node.js, was compromised shortly after its launch to include malicious code capable of stealing sensitive information and mining cryptocurrency. The malicious features ...
