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Canada Joins Lebanon and Turkey in 'Bitcoin's Marketing Team'
15.2.2022
The Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada has claimed that banks in the country could be asked to immediately freeze or suspend the bank accounts of individuals in the country, as the “truck drivers’ protest” over Canadian COVID-19 restrictions continues....
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Customers and Merchants Positive on Adoption: Crypto.com Report
15.2.2022
No one can deny the growth of cryptocurrencies as a mainstream culture in the last few years. There was a rise in crypto-related projects in 2021, with investors largely moving online and new customers looking for passive forms of income. Now, after a nearly decade-long run, cryptocurrencies have...
Bitso Expands to Colombia Amidst Growing Cryptocurrency Adoption in the Country
15.2.2022
Bitso, a Mexico-based cryptocurrency exchange, is expanding and strengthening its push into the Colombian market in the midst of growing interest in these new technologies in the country. Bitso has appointed Emilio Pardo as a new country manager, to debut the start of operations in Colombia...
Report: 74% of stolen funds from ransomware attacks went to Russian-affiliated wallet addresses in 2021
14.2.2022
Russian hackers allegedly netted a profit of more than $400 million through crypto-ransomware in 2021
The Future of NFTs: A Race Between Traditional Businesses and Crypto-based Financial Services
14.2.2022
Umberto Canessa Cerchi is the CEO of Kryptomon, an NFT play-to-earn blockchain game._____
Traditional institutions and decentralized ones have always been at odds given their competing philosophies, but the recent explosion in NFTs has given them a shared interest, with both racing to give...
Super Bowl Crypto Ads, Which One Was the Most Interesting?
14.2.2022
The 2022 Super Bowl was inundated with crypto ads as four crypto trading platforms and one decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) aired ads promoting the nascent industry.
Reactions varied widely, but the majority in the crypto community seemed to be impressed with the ads by major crypto...
Coinbase's Volatile Weekend: Security Threat, Service Paused & Restored, Site Crash
14.2.2022
Major crypto exchange Coinbase experienced a volatile weekend with a vulnerability reported, a service paused and re-started, and its site crashing following what seems to have been a successful Super Bowl ad.
Tree of Alpha, a pseudonymous white-hat hacker, notified Coinbase of a "potentially...
Wells Fargo: Cryptocurrency Has Entered ‘Hyper-Adoption Phase’
13.2.2022
Financial services firm Wells Fargo says that cryptocurrencies are viable investments that have entered the “hyper-adoption” phase. “Cryptocurrencies have been following an adoption pattern similar to other new advanced technologies, such as the internet,”...
P2P payments spurred crypto adoption across Venezuela in 2021
12.2.2022
Venezuelans tried to fight inflation this year by using cryptocurrencies on an unprecedented scale in the country
Experience-to-earn is the gateway for NFT mainstream adoption
12.2.2022
Nonfungible tokens can power another paradigm shift via the experience-to-earn model, which welcomes anyone into the NFTs space
Billionaire Bill Miller Has ‘Very Big’ Bitcoin Position — Calls BTC ‘Insurance Against Financial Catastrophe’
12.2.2022
Veteran investor and fund manager Bill Miller says he has “a very big position” in bitcoin and expects to see a lot of institutional adoption this year, particularly among endowments and foundations. “Bitcoin is insurance against financial catastrophe,” he opined. Bill...
Canadian Trucker Protesters Eye Bitcoin Amid Court-Ordered Fund Freeze
11.2.2022
The government of Canada’s Ontario has obtained an order from the province's Superior Court of Justice that allows freezing some USD 9.4m in funds collected through crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo for the 'trucker protest' -- encouraging calls by some of the protest’s supporters to develop...
Intel Confirms its Crypto Mining Plan, Uber Repeats its Crypto Intentions + More News
11.2.2022
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YouTube Eyes Metaverse, Blockchain, NFT Features As Creator Program Hits 2M Users
11.2.2022
In 2022, YouTube aims to roll out a number of new functionalities, tools, and products for the company’s creators, viewers, and partners -- and per Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer at the platform, some of the features will also be related to the metaverse, blockchain, and non-fungible tokens...
Turkey (Unintentionally) Builds Case for Bitcoin as It Plans to Convert Citizens' Gold to Lira
11.2.2022
The Turkish government is working on plans to get its citizens to hand in ‘under the mattress’ gold in its latest scheme to prop up the value of its national currency, the lira. But according to some, the country would have been much better off had it just embraced bitcoin (BTC)....
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JPMorgan Predicts Long-Term Bitcoin Price of $150K — Outlines Challenges Ahead
11.2.2022
Global investment bank JPMorgan has predicted that the long-term price of bitcoin will reach $150K while the fair value of the cryptocurrency sits at $38K. “The biggest challenge for bitcoin going forward is its volatility and the boom and bust cycles that hinder further institutional...
Fitch Ratings Downgrades El Salvador Deeper Into Junk Status Citing Bitcoin Risks
10.2.2022
One of the largest rating agencies in the U.S., Fitch Ratings, has downgraded El Salvador’s long-term default rating deeper into junk status, citing risks from adopting bitcoin as legal tender as a key reason. “The adoption of bitcoin as legal tender has added uncertainty about...
'One currency change every generation,' how monetary skepticism spearheaded cryptocurrency adoption in Czechia
10.2.2022
"Since the end of the 19th century, there have been seven distinct currencies in the region that is now Czechia," says SatoshiLabs' in-house economist Josef Tětek
Crypto Bank Avanti Steps Closer to Fed, 2021 Total Crypto M&A Value Up 4,846%, New Hampshire Crypto Commission, Sport Deals With Tezos and Terra + More News
10.2.2022
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Bitcoin business in France: Regulation, education and cash buy frustration
10.2.2022
Cointelegraph sat down with the only Bitcoin business in France that allows Bitcoin cash buys, Bitcoin-lyon