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800k Bitcoin Miners Recently Shut Down

F2pool, believes that anywhere from 600k to 800k bitcoin miners have shut down since mid-November as the bitcoin network’s hashrate - <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/600k-bitcoin-miners-shut-down-in-last-2-weeks-f2pool-founder-estimates" target="_blank">and the cryptocurrency’s price - have declined.</a>Ripple has released the latest version of its <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/ripple-is-making-it-easier-for-customers-to-integrate-xrp-they-arent-yet" target="_blank">most popular product, xCurrent. </a>Porn startup SpankChain raised $6 million <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/spankchain-eth-crypto-porn-camgirl" target="_blank">in an initial coin offering in 2017.</a>Ohio has officially become the <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/ohio-becomes-first-us-state-to-allow-taxes-to-be-paid-in-bitcoin" target="_blank">first US state to accept bitcoin for taxes.</a> Late Confirmation is a CoinDesk production. For more information,<a href="http://www.coindesk.com" target="_blank"> visit www.CoinDesk.com</a>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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