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Mining industry

Bitcoin

On 2022–11–20, the Bitcoin network saw its new ATH on mining difficulty, after a 0.51% gain.

With the market seriously affected by the FTX collapse, and a continuingly high level of hashrate, the mining unit revenue drops to $0.06 per 1 TH/s, this is a record low over the past 5 years.

Many mainstream BTC machines are now running below their break-even BTC price if their cost rate is at $0.08/kWh or higher level. In the table above, you may have a general look at miners’ electricity cost rates, at the condition of different BTC prices.

Litecoin and Dogecoin

Litecoin hashrate recorded its new ATH on 2022–11–16, at 585 TH/s, as its price hit a new 5-month high. Contrary to BTC mining’s tough situation, LTC miners are now operating in a safe zone with a relatively good margin. In addition to its Dogecoin mining rewards which have become the main proportion of the Scrypt machines, the Top 10 miners, are running with positive revenues.

Other coins

No matters its ethash coins, or other GPU coins, machines are mining at loss with GPUs for a price of $0.06/kWh or higher electricity cost. This leads to drops in hashrate scales to some extent.

ETC hashrate has not been affected since it is mainly occupied by ASICs that can still mine it with a good profit.

Development and network

Hathor

Hathor releases its v0.52.1, which includes Sync V2 upgrade, an upgrade of the OpenSSL library to its latest version.Hathor also released some other useful improvements as well. Learn more here.

Decred

In the October updates of Decred, main tech progress, such as releases of Decred Core software v1.7.5 and DCRDEX v0.5.4 patches, was recorded.

Ethereum Classic

The ETC Cooperative has announced the launch of the Safe Multisignature Wallet app on the Ethereum Classic network.

The Safe Multisig App was created by Gnosis, it was originally a prediction market dapp on the Ethereum network. Safe works on Ethereum and other smart contracts networks, and now it is compatible with ETC as well.

Application and adoption

Bitcoin and Cryptos

As FTX has collapsed and there is a big challenge on users’ funds, hardware wallet sales volumes either gain significantly or reach ATHs. Now more and more crypto holders are seriously looking into self-custodial to own their coins.

Horizen

NFTs are now available on TokenMint mainnet. The new NFT functionality is currently in the Alpha version.

Community and more

Dogecoin

The Dogecoin Foundation’s Dogeathon from 2022-11-15 to 2022-11-19 has wrapped up, with the Much Wow Award being announced. Individuals and teams joined from anywhere online or in person with key Dogecoin Devs in Australia.

Hathor

The Hathor Labs Q3 report is out, with an insight into Hathor’s operations and milestones for Q3 2022.

Dash

Dash has released their October updates, with highlights from the tech and marketing teams.

Ergo

Elaborating on the theme of Mining and Minting, Ergo is hosting a Mini Summit on 2022-11-26, stay tuned.

Nervos

Nervos Networks community celebrated the 3rd anniversary of the Nervos mainnet. Over the past years, The Nervos Network has reached around 1.5 Millions unique addresses.

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