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Getting a grid connection for $BTC mining got hard. Two or three years ago it wasn't.
Filmed at a GoMining site in West Texas, Jared (CEO of GoMining North America Division) makes the point: the competition now is hyperscalers. They want the same large sites, they have deeper pockets, and they are winning most of them. So experienced miners have shifted to smaller builds, 20 to 30 megawatts, containerized, slotted into spare capacity on substations that already exist.
Worth sitting with for anyone who has considered buying an ASIC miner. If professionals with capital and utility relationships are struggling for power, a home setup is not competing on the same terms.
That work is already done behind every GoMining digital miner. The power and the site are sorted before you ever log in.
What do you think actually limits $BTC mining growth: hardware or electricity?
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Trade routes are moving. Settlement rails mostly aren't.
That gap is what A7 International went after at its launch this week. The founders' thesis in one line: "The market belongs to those who come first with a working solution."
What "working" looks like in their version:
• payer settles a foreign invoice in USDT
• recipient gets SWIFT in USD, yuan or dirhams, the currencies of the new routes
• payment network across 150+ countries, no local offices
• 15,000+ businesses already using the group's rails
• 0.3% fee, from one business day
The currency choice is the tell: dollar, yuan, dirham. That's where trade is going.
Early days for the product. Watching whether the rails keep up with the routes: A7.biz
#crypto #A7
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Ask anyone who sends money abroad what annoys them most. It's rarely the fee. It's the fee they didn't know about.
A7 International made a point of this at its launch: the price is known before you pay, and it doesn't change afterwards.
What they committed to on stage:
• 0.3% fee, flat, stated upfront
• no hidden extras, no "correspondent bank charges" surprise
• no unexplained freezes of funds along the way
• USDT from you, SWIFT in USD, CNY or AED to the recipient
• from one business day to delivery
Fradkov described the market's real demand as "a few clicks from a smartphone, without paperwork, hidden fees or frozen money."
Everyone promises that. Few deliver it at 2,000+ payments a day. Following to see if they do: A7.biz
#crypto #A7
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Most B2B payment products quietly exclude you if you're not a company.
A7 International said on its launch stream that the new product is for both: companies and individuals paying abroad.
The flow is the same for either:
• register on a7.biz, upload the invoice
• system reads the amount and the bank details automatically
• recipient's registration certificate goes through verification
• confirm one USDT transaction from your wallet
• recipient gets SWIFT in USD, CNY or AED, from one business day
Fee is 0.3%, fixed. Only the payer needs a wallet; the other side never touches crypto.
Shor's point: "If your partner specifically needs to receive funds via SWIFT, now you have that option."
Opening this to individuals is the part I didn't expect. Following to see how it's used: A7.biz
#crypto #A7
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Crypto payments usually break at the accountant's desk, not at the blockchain.
No invoice match, no bank confirmation, nothing to file. A7 International showed a flow at its launch that seems designed for that desk:
• you upload the actual invoice, the system reads the details
• the recipient company's registration certificate goes through verification
• the counterparty receives a regular SWIFT transfer in the invoice currency
• you get a document confirming the payment was executed
• 0.3% fee, from one business day
The payer uses USDT. The paper trail looks like a normal international transfer.
Shor's framing: "We make complex financial operations understandable again."
If the documents hold up in a real audit, this is the interesting part. Following: A7.biz
#crypto #A7
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2024: a cross-border payments company for one market.
2026: a launch on an open stage in Moscow, pitching a product to the whole world.
A7 International's founders used the stream to show what happened in between:
• 150+ countries connected to their payment network
• 15,000+ business clients
• 10 trillion rubles in payments last year
• 2,000+ transactions a day, half of them processed by AI
• market leader in Russian cross-border payments with a 19% share
The new product sits on top of that: pay a foreign invoice in USDT, recipient gets SWIFT in USD, CNY or AED, 0.3% fee, from one business day.
Fradkov's words: "We have outgrown this framework."
Fast growth is easy to announce and hard to sustain. Curious which way this goes: A7.biz
#crypto #A7
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Most crypto payment pitches die at the same question: "ok, but how does my counterparty get paid?"
A7 International answered it on a stage in front of the Kremlin: he gets a regular SWIFT transfer. In his currency. On his bank account.
What caught my attention in the numbers:
• 150+ countries covered by their own payment network
• 15,000+ businesses onboarded in two years
• 2,000+ transactions per day, 50% processed by AI
• 0.3% fee, delivery from one business day
Founders Petr Fradkov and Ilan Shor framed it simply: you do business, we do the cross-border part.
Big claim. The next few months will show if the rails hold. Keeping an eye on it: A7.biz
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USDT in, SWIFT out. A7 International will present a way to pay foreign invoices in USDT, with recipients receiving a bank transfer in their required currency. Fixed fee: 0.3%.
13 October, 10:13 UTC. Watch: a7.biz/live
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Cross-border payments are the focus of A7 International: settle an overseas invoice in USDT, then deliver funds by SWIFT in the needed currency. The fee stays at 0.3%.
Petr Fradkov and Ilan Shor present it on 13 October, 10:13 UTC. a7.biz/live
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USDT for the payer, SWIFT for the recipient: A7 International will present that approach to foreign-invoice payments today. The announced fixed fee is 0.3%.
13 October, 10:13 UTC: a7.biz/live
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Foreign trade still needs bank rails. A7 International is presenting a service where you pay an invoice in USDT and the recipient gets a SWIFT transfer in the required currency. Announced fee: 0.3%.
13 October, 10:13 UTC: a7.biz/live
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Every rise in hashrate is thousands of miners betting real energy on Bitcoin's future. That is the strongest vote of confidence there is.
Rising hashrate makes the network harder to attack and more expensive to mine, which is exactly why it tracks Bitcoin's long-term value.
The best part: you can be one of them without running a single machine.
Are you mining Bitcoin yet, or still just watching the chart? 👇
Bitcoin hashrate shows an increase trend again
“An increase in hashrate means a rise in the mining cost, which signifies an increase in the value of BTC.” – By @CW8900
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NULLMASK - AMA with Tomas Krnak teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/1nxnRBNla…
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Every paid calls group sells itself the same way: a screenshot of their best trade and a link to pay.
Anyone can crop a screenshot. On Cherry, people see your actual trading history before they subscribe, so the ones who pay already know what they're paying for.
Charge for the room or keep it to people holding your token. Either way, when you post a call, members open the chart and buy right there in the chat.
Start your own community today → chat.cherry.fun/@trenches
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Join us Wednesday for a Solana DeFi special, celebrating @onrefinance's year of growth.
Hear from @kamino, @exponent, @FWDind, @onrefinance, and @RockawayX on how they add liquidity, utility, products, and ways to access ONyc.
Live on Solana's X @ 11AM ET, August 19
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1/ 🇮🇳 Aamchi Mumbai!
Devcon 8 is heading to one of the most electric cities in the world, and our Mumbai travel guide is officially live!
Where to stay, how to get around, what to eat, what to see, and everything you need to start planning your trip.
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Happy to appear on the Fault Tolerant Frenz podcast next week to present our new Cadence protocol! Let me know if you have any topics/questions you'd like to hear discussed (or ask them live during the session). Sign up here: luma.com/eihv3lvd
Episode 7 of FTF Consensus sessions is happening Monday in 2 weeks (August 10th)!
@TobiasKlenze from Category Labs (@monad) will be presenting their new Multiple Concurrent Proposer protocol Cadence.