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Jupiter, the Solana DeFi Exchange, Receives Approval for Airdrops Following Failed $1.7 Billion Vote

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Solana decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator Jupiter is set to airdrop JUP tokens to its community over the next two Januaries after the Jupiter DAO—the collective of JUP token holders—approved a revised airdrop proposal following a failed first try to hand out $1.7 billion worth of tokens.

More than 87% of votes were in favor of the second proposal, which made a few key changes from the first that only received 58% votes in support late last month, below the required 70% to pass the proposal…

Bitcoin Mining Has Become More Challenging than Ever Before—16 Years Since Satoshi’s Inception

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It’s Bitcoin’s birthday: The very first Bitcoin block was mined 16 years ago today. 
And the network is stronger than ever, with mining difficulty reaching a new all-time high mark as the biggest cryptocurrency rides into the new year. 
Data from Bitinfocharts shows that Bitcoin difficulty hit a new all-time high of 109.78 trillion hashes as of Monday—the highest ever seen for the original blockchain network. That means it takes that huge amount of hashes to mine a new block.

Hashing is the com…