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On January 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto mined the Genesis Block on a small server in Helsinki, Finland, and received a reward of 50 bitcoins, which marks the beginning of crypto mining.
From CPU to ASIC
In Satoshi Nakamoto’s initial vision, mining could be performed using CPUs installed on PCs. During its infancy, Bitcoin remained obscure and offered no value.
It wasn’t until 2010…
Report: Biden Administration 'Crypto Tsar' Says DOJ will Target Digital Asset Exchange Platforms
May 17, 2023
According to Eun Young Choi, the head of the crypto unit at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the United States has resolved to target digital platforms because they are making it easy for criminals and money launderers. Choi said the DOJ hopes taking action against…
Quick Charge Podcast: May 16, 2023
May 17, 2023
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Tesla gave an update on its humanoid robot program, which is known as Tesla Bot or Optimus. New images of prototypes were quite impressive – making the project look less like a sideshow and increasingly like a potentially real product.
When Elon Musk first announced the Tesla Bot, many laughed it off as a sideshow or distraction to Tesla’s more important mission to accelerate the advent of…
Tesla co-founder and former CTO JB Straubel is officially joining the company’s board of directors following a shareholder vote.
JB Straubel was a co-founder at Tesla and the company’s longtime chief technology officer until he left in 2019 to launch Redwood Materials…
Here's how North America's first utility-scale solar recycling plant is ramping up for the clean energy boom
May 17, 2023
We Recycle Solar is deploying new machinery and technology to quadruple its processing capacity to 522 million pounds per year by 2028.
We Recycle Solar, which is permitted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to handle hazardous secondary materials that come…
Tesla is planning to finish the design and engineering of the next-generation Tesla Roadster by the end of this year and “hopefully” put the vehicle into production next year, according to CEO Elon Musk at Tesla’s shareholder meeting today.
The next-generation Roadster was originally announced by surprise in 2017 at the Tesla Semi Unveiling event. At the time, Tesla said that the car would…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company is going to “try advertising” after years of resisting the idea and even saying that he “hates advertising.”
For years, Musk has famously said that he despises advertising. He said that Tesla doesn’t pay or provide…
Tesla has teased its next electric car with a new image of the silhouette, and Elon Musk says it is already being built.
Today, Tesla held its annual shareholder meeting. While CEO Elon Musk said that the meeting was not the right place to make a new product announcement…
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight to Fly by Earth
May 17, 2023
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight mission to the Moon has ended, but the briefcase-size spacecraft will soon fly past Earth before heading into deep space. On Tuesday, May 16, at 9:44 p.m. PDT (Wednesday, May 17, at 12:44 a.m. EDT), the CubeSat will pass about 40,000 miles (65,000 kilometers) from our planet’s surface.
NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System 3D visualization tool will track the tiny…
