Winter storm Fern has triggered widespread power outages across the US, prompting Bitcoin miners to curtail operations to ease grid strain.

Major changes to the Bitcoin protocol should be well-thought-out and rare, Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor previously said.

The Tallinn protocol upgrade marks Tezos' 20th major update since launching in 2018, and was implemented without a network fork.

Crypto sales are taxable under current United States policy, but lawmakers have proposed tax exemptions for small transactions.

The Nietzschean Penguin (PENGUIN) memecoin had a market capitalization of about $387,000 before the US White House published its post.

The Bitcoin proposal caps arbitrary data in an attempt to combat spam from non-monetary transactions on the Bitcoin network.