When we say bitcoin miners face squeeze as hash price nears break-even levels, we are referring to the pressure on mining operations caused by a combination of factors: declining revenue per hash, rising input costs (electricity, hardware depreciation, maintenance), and increasing competition (higher network hashrate and difficulty). In mining lingo, “hash price” is defined as the expected daily revenue a miner can earn per terahash/s (TH/s) or petahash/s (PH/s) of computing power. In recent months, the hash price for Bitcoin has plunged to near-multi-month or even multi-year lows. Reports show figures around US$43 per PH/s/day, levels unseen since April for…
Author: Mubeen Mukhtar
When we talk about scam metaverse style, we refer to advertising strategies that borrow from the visionary promise of the metaverse—immersive experiences, avatar-driven interaction, virtual assets and alternate realities—to package and promote fraudulent schemes. These are no longer simple banner ads promising quick cash; they are narratives built around virtual land, NFTs, fake digital currencies, avatar influencers and immersive platforms. The metaverse aesthetic enables scammers to lend legitimacy to hollow offerings, to bypass critical user scepticism and to piggy-back on the hype surrounding virtual worlds. The reason this term matters is two-fold. First, it alerts us to the evolution of…