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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Another Ethereum mining pool forced to close due to China crackdown

Beepool, the fourth largest Ethereum mining pool will shut down operations following Beijing’s anti crypto posture.

BeePool, the fourth largest Ethereum mining pool, is closing amid China's crypto crackdown.

The China-based Ethereum mining pool announced on Tuesday it will suspend operations "in response to the latest regulatory policies."

Effective immediately, the registration of new users and the addition of sub-accounts for existing users will be discontinued, and all mining access servers are expected to stop operating by October 15.

The announcement comes just a day after news broke that SparkPool, the second largest Ethereum mining pool, will suspend operations by the end of the month for similar reasons.

Between them, BeePool and SparkPool account for more than one quarter of Ethereum’s hashrate.

Following a lull in its crypto crackdown, late last week it became clear the People’s Bank of China was ramping up a suite of new measures and promoting stronger inter-departmental coordination to suppress crypto activity. The measures aim to cut off payment channels, dispose of relevant websites and mobile applications in accordance with the law.

The mining crackdown has focused for months on Bitcoin mining which saw a major exodus of mining operations from the country. Now, the Chinese government’s focus appears to have shifted to Ethereum.

On Monday the Guangming media outlet reported that authorities in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia had seized 10,000 Ether mining machines from a warehouse after a tip-off. The miners were consuming 1,104 kWh of electricity.

According to the publication Inner Mongolian authorities have shut down 45 virtual currency mining projects so far, reportedly saving 6.58 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, which the outlets claims is equivalent to two million tons of standard coal.

The mining crackdown has contributed to the ETH price dropping below $3,000 yesterday and it is currently trading at $2,863.71 according to CoinGecko.

BeePool has been operating for four years and the mining pool currently accounts for 6.7% of the Ethereum mining share with over 3,000 blocks mined in the last week.

Related: Alibaba to ban crypto miner sales amid Chinese crackdown

While mining is profitable now, the introduction of fee burning on the Ethereum London hard fork has reduced profits as miners receive fewer rewards for each block.

The next stage in the blockchain's ongoing upgrade to Eth2 was announced earlier today for October. Miners will be further sidelined by the shift to Proof-Of-Stake.

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