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Worldcoin spreads across Europe with Austria digital ID launch
2.8.2024
Worldcoin expands its digital ID verification technology to Austria, offering residents in Vienna access to the World ID system with multiple locations throughout the city
Worldcoin spreads across Europe with Austria digital ID launch
2.8.2024
Worldcoin expands its digital ID verification technology to Austria, offering residents in Vienna access to the World ID system with multiple locations throughout the city
Austria’s RLB NÖ-Wien Bank Allows Crypto Trading Using Bitpanda Tech
25.1.2024
Austrian cooperative bank Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien (RLB NÖ-Wien) is allowing clients to trade digital assets using their banking apps using Bitpanda infrastructure starting from today. Bitpanda says that a large traditional bank such as RLB NÖ-Wien embracing digital assets is...
Vienna-Based Raiffeisen Bank Expands Services to Include Crypto Trading
23.11.2023
Raiffeisen Bank. Source: Adobe / Cristi Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank is set to launch crypto trading services in 2024, joining a slew of European banks breaking into the digital asset custody business. The 130-year-old bank announced plans for the service in April upon signing a letter of intent...
Ukraine officials get training on crypto and virtual assets investigation
17.11.2023
The officials from Ukraine were trained in tracing crypto transactions over different blockchains using specialized analytics software
Choise.com announced a partnership deal with Vienna Vikings
5.7.2023
Crypto platform Choise.com recently announced a sponsorship deal with the Vienna Vikings, defending champions of the European League of Football (ELF). Choise.com is a gateway crypto platform that brings together the best of traditional and decentralized finance, including interest accounts, access...
Researchers demonstrate ‘unconditionally secure’ quantum digital payments
4.7.2023
The research represents a possible breakthrough in quantum communications and, potentially, the onset of the era of quantum fintech
Alleged Admin of Darknet Marketplace Monopoly Market Extradited to US
29.6.2023
The suspected administrator of the Monopoly Market darknet marketplace has been extradited from Austria to face charges in the U.S. The man, a citizen of Serbia and Croatia who was arrested in Vienna last November, has been accused of facilitating $18 million in illegal drug transactions using...
Vienna-Based Trality Announces Free Worldwide Trading Competition With Over 60,000 USDT in Prizes
4.3.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Trality, a leading FinTech company headquartered in Vienna, Austria, is organizing a worldwide coding competition. Now in its second year, the Trality Trading Competition is fast becoming the premiere proving ground for expert Python trading bot programmers. Top Prizes for the...
Vienna Stock Exchange will list crypto ETPs from ETC Group
18.8.2021
According to the ETC Group, the ETPs are “100% physically backed and central counterparty cleared.”
Bitpanda Raises $263 Million in Series C Finance Round, Firm Aims to ‘Double Down on Technology’
18.8.2021
Vienna-based crypto platform Bitpanda has announced the firm has secured $263 million in a Series C funding round. The financing was led by Valar Ventures and Leadblock Partners, Jump Capital, Alan Howard, and Redo Ventures joined the investment round. The latest financing gives Bitpanda an overall...
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis Released 15 Years Ago Today And I Still Want A Sequel
23.5.2021
A lot of people are currently waiting on Rockstar Games to announce the next Grand Theft Auto. And look, I’m excited about a new GTA game. But I also know it will happen one day. I’m far less certain we will ever get a sequel to Rockstar’s amazing table tennis game. 15 years later, I’m still...
Tim Draper’s Venture Studio to Triple-Down on Blockchain Projects With a $25M Fund
6.10.2020
At the LA Blockchain Summit, the blockchain and fintech venture studio Draper Goren Holm announced the launch of a $25 million blockchain fund called “Fund 1.” According to the announcement the money will be used for promising blockchain and fintech startups in Series A and seed...
Vienna and Singapore stock exchanges embrace Bitcoin and Ethereum
2.9.2020
The Vienna Stock Exchange and the Singapore Exchange are warming up to cryptocurrency
Leading Stock Exchanges in Switzerland, Germany, Austria Now List Bitcoin ETP
1.9.2020
A bitcoin exchange-traded product by 21Shares is now listed on leading stock exchanges in three countries: Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. The company offers 11 cryptocurrency exchange-traded investment products in total. Growing Number of Stock Exchanges List Bitcoin Products Zug-based 21Shares...
FATF AML Regulation: Can the Crypto Industry Adapt to the Travel Rule?
10.10.2019
Bitpanda Exchange CEO said the crypto industry will face up to the FATF’s travel rule: “The effects on the industry will be immense, but the industry will cope with that and adopt”
Washington Elite Announces Summit in Vienna
23.9.2019
The Austrian capital hosts some of the world’s brightest minds in smart city, crypto, M&A and renewable energy October 11 - 12 during the Washington Elite AI and Blockchain Summit – Smart City Edition in Vienna, Austria.
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Hayek’s 1984: Rediscovered Footage Shows Austrian Economist Predicting Bitcoin
20.7.2019
Born in 1899 in Vienna, Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek is a legend of sorts in voluntaryist, libertarian, and crypto-economic circles. Freshly rediscovered video footage of the Austrian School philosopher and social theorist from 1984 is now making the rounds on crypto Twitter. In...
Blockchain as Key to Vienna’s Digital Future — Interview with Ulrike Huemer, CIO of Vienna, Austria
18.5.2019
For Austria, blockchain is more than just a means of crypto-trading. Ulrike Huemer, the CIO of the capital city of Vienna, gave us an in-depth look at how the country seizes the potential of the nascent technology in order to provide public services and to help transform Vienna into a “smart city”