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Chinese Firms Can Now Make Digital Yuan Housing Fund Payments
4.12.2023
Chinese firms can now use the digital yuan to pay into employee housing funds, as the nation’s banks look for new CBDC applications. Per the Guangzhou Daily (via the Guangzhou government’s website), the Guangzhou Housing Provident Fund Management Center has “launched digital yuan remittance...
Report: Crypto Mining Equipment Found in Poland’s Supreme Court
20.11.2023
Prosecutors in Poland’s capital Warsaw recently launched a probe into how cryptocurrency mining equipment was installed in a building housing the country’s Supreme Administrative Court. The chairman of the court’s information department insisted the crypto-mining equipment posed...
Senate Banking Committee Discusses Accountability, Oversight of Financial Regulators in Tuesday Hearing
14.11.2023
The Senate Committee on Banking, Houses, and Urban Affairs met on November 14th to conduct a hearing regarding oversight of financial regulators. Holding executives accountable “We must turn the lessons of this year into action,” said Senator Sherrod Brown (D – OH), Chairman of the U.S....
Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision
13.10.2023
On October 13, Microsoft completed its nearly two-year-long process of consuming Activision Blizzard King. And while it will take months and years for Xbox and all the parties involved to sort everything out and start bringing past Activision Blizzard games to Game Pass, for now, we can tally...
Microsoft Asks Controversial Activision CEO Bobby Kotick To Stay For Two More Months
13.10.2023
Longtime Activision Blizzard CEO, Bobby Kotick, is almost gone, but not quite yet. Nearly two years after over 1,000 of his employees called on the controversial executive to resign, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer confirmed that Kotick will remain the head of the Call of Duty publisher until...
USDR stablecoin depegs to $0.53, but team vows to provide solutions
12.10.2023
Real-estate-backed stablecoin USDR fell to $0.53 per coin on Oct. 11, but the team said it was merely a liquidity issue and that real estate holdings and digital assets will be used to support redemptions
US Inflation Posts Biggest Monthly Increase in 2023 as CPI Rises 0.6%
13.9.2023
The U.S. Department of Labor released new data today showing a 0.6% increase in the consumer price index (CPI) for August. This is the largest monthly rise in U.S. inflation so far this year. The report showed that prices have gone up by 3.7% compared to August of last year, slightly higher than...
Powell: More Rate Hikes May Be Needed to Curb Inflation
25.8.2023
The chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, warned on Friday that inflation remains too high and signaled the central bank may continue raising interest rates to get it under control. In remarks at the Jackson Hole symposium, Powell acknowledged recent progress in lowering inflation...
US Inflation Climbs to 3.2% in July, Stoking Concerns and Dividing Market Opinions
10.8.2023
The most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals a growingly intricate inflationary scenario for the U.S. economy. Disclosed on Thursday, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) exhibited a 3.2% annual increase in July, primarily propelled by housing expenses. This...
Report: Kenyan Police Raid Worldcoin’s Offices Just Days After Govt Suspended the Crypto Project
8.8.2023
A team of Kenyan police officers is reported to have raided the premises used by Worldcoin and seized devices storing users’ data. The raid came just days after the Kenyan government announced the suspension of Worldcoin’s activities in the country. Officers Armed With Search Warrant...
Baldur's Gate 3 Lets You Hide Your Sexy Times From Co-Op Friends
4.8.2023
There’s a lot of sex in Baldur’s Gate 3. Some of it’s pretty tame, with typical relations between two humanoid characters. Some of it gets a little weirder, like the druid bear sex scene. But if you’re playing a cooperative campaign with your friends, you might not want them to see your avatar...
Crypto Catalysts: Investors to Weigh Jobs, Retail Sales, Production Data for Latest Inflation Signals
17.7.2023
The jobs market remains strong, a concern for the U.S. central bank which seems intent on raising the Federal Funds rate 25 basis points
Microsoft And Sony Finally Reach Deal For The Future Of Call Of Duty On PlayStation
16.7.2023
Microsoft and Sony have finally reached a deal for keeping Call of Duty on PlayStation once the Activision Blizzard merger goes through. The surprise agreement comes after months of fighting between the two companies, that included a court battle with the FTC, and is a sign the acquisition is...
How blockchain technology and DeFi could help solve the housing crisis
5.7.2023
Home Construction Collective’s co-founders spoke with The Agenda podcast to explain why homes are so expensive and how decentralized finance might provide an answer
Rate Hikes Affecting Housing Markets in Eurozone, United States, ECB Study Shows
19.5.2023
Interest rate hikes in the euro area are already causing a decline in housing investment, the zone’s central bank revealed in a study. While smaller than in the United States, the impact of the monetary policy tightening on the Old Continent is likely to grow further, the regulator expects. Housing...
Tokenization of housing project in Honduras
16.5.2023
In continuation with its activities in Central America, DelNorte is already ready for the tokenization of a fresh housing project in Honduras. For this, the entity will be utilizing the completely new-age blockchain technology that is available in the digital real estate market. As per...
China’s CBDC Registers Housing Aid Firsts – Digital Yuan Adoption Gathers Pace?
14.4.2023
It has been another busy week for China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital yuan, with the token finding new usage cases in the fields of housing aid public resource transactions.
Xinhua Daily reported that the Jiangsu Provincial Government Affairs Office has begun using the CBDC...
Is a housing crisis underway? Why crypto investors should care
31.3.2023
Cointelegraph analyst and writer Marcel Pechman explains if there is a housing crisis underway and why crypto investors should be paying attention
Senate Banking Committee Holds Hearing on Recent Bank Collapses, Calls for Tougher Regulations
29.3.2023
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, also known as the Senate Banking Committee, held a hearing to discuss the recent bank collapses in the United States and the regulatory response. Throughout the testimonies, digital assets and crypto businesses were...
Bitcoin corrects on Fed rate hike, but bulls are prepared for Friday's $1.2B options expiry
23.3.2023
BTC price dropped as the Fed rolled out a 0.25% rate hike, but improving housing market data and Bitcoin options data suggests that bulls are ready for this week’s expiry