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Paxful Celebrates the Real Reasons People Use Bitcoin Everyday With #BitcoinForAll Giveaway
8.2.2021
Paxful, one of the largest peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplaces in the world, is celebrating the real reasons people use bitcoin everyday with a special $15,000 giveaway. The platform helps millions to have access to payments, e-commerce, remittances, wealth preservation and philanthropy with...
Kim Dotcom’s Next-Generation Content-Monetization Service K.IM Announces Bitcoin Cash Integration
4.1.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Megaupload creator Kim Dotcom announced this month to use Bitcoin Cash for his newest innovation, K.IM, a suite of tools to enable anyone around the world to manage, protect and sell digital content at ultra-low fees and without intermediaries. Dotcom, who’s website Megaupload...
Betting Your Coins Online? Be Sure to AskGamblers First
30.12.2020
Visit AskGamblers.com before ever wagering your hard-earned coins in an online casino. AskGamblers is the internet’s largest and most trusted portal dedicated to curating honest, fair, and open gaming experiences for users worldwide. These Days You Can Use Bitcoin to Buy Just About Anything...
Brazilian Banking Boss Says Venezuelans Use Bitcoin & Alts as a ‘Vehicle’
29.12.2020
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A Brazilian banking association chief said that people are using crypto as a means of getting money out of Venezuela, circumventing American sanctions that have all but frozen Venezuelans out of the international banking system.
Per a report from the media outlet...
65% of Traders on Paypal Ready to Use Bitcoin to Pay for Goods and Services: Survey
3.12.2020
At least 65% of people who use the Paypal app to trade bitcoin are prepared to start using the top cryptocurrency to pay for goods and services at the 28 million stores supported by the payments company throughout the world. According to a proprietary survey of 380 Paypal users by Mizuho...
Deutsche Bank: Investors Increasingly Choose Bitcoin Over Gold to Hedge Dollar Risk, Inflation
20.11.2020
Deutsche Bank’s strategist Jim Reid reportedly wrote that investors are increasingly demanding to use bitcoin instead of gold to hedge dollar risk and inflation. His research concurs with one recently published by JPMorgan’s analysts that shows institutional investors moving from gold...
Venezuela to Incorporate Bitcoin and Litecoin Wallets into National Remittances Platform
2.11.2020
Venezuela says it will incorporate bitcoin and litecoin wallets to its Patria’s Cryptocurrency Remittance Platform. In an update, authorities in the country say this move will enable Venezuelan citizens to formally receive remittances in cryptocurrency form. Many citizens of hyperinflation...
Whales can now use Bitcoin to purchase private jets
15.9.2020
One aircraft comes at a cost of roughly 3,750 Bitcoin
Could Belarus Use Bitcoin to Beat US-EU Sanctions?
14.8.2020
With much of the international community enraged at the Alexander Lukashenko-led government of Belarus following a controversial recent general election, the threat of a new wave of United States-led economic sanctions against the nation and its leadership has become very real.
The European Union...
South Korean Beachgoers Can Now Use Bitcoin to Pay for Services
9.8.2020
The Haeundae Beach System in Busan is part of a pilot project that aims to offer crypto payment solutions to beachgoers in the summertime
Russian Activists Use Bitcoin, and the Kremlin Doesn’t Like It
15.7.2020
Activists and dissidents in Russia use crypto for fundraising – yet widespread adoption is still far away
Elon Musk Bitcoin Giveaway Scam Rakes in Millions of Dollars in BTC
21.6.2020
‘Elon Musk’ bitcoin giveaways continue to scam people on Youtube. Scammers have reportedly pulled in millions of dollars in bitcoin from people wanting to double their cryptocurrency. Some of them use bitcoin addresses containing the name Elon Musk, Spacex, or Telsa. Before sending...
Australians, New Zealanders Can Now Use Bitcoin in Vending Machines
9.6.2020
Vending machines operated by major Asia Pacific soft drink bottler and distributor Coca-Cola Amatil will now be accepting payments in crypto
Use Bitcoin, Gold, and Bonds as a Hedge Against Inflation - BitMEX
25.5.2020
With central banks and governments around the world injecting massive amounts of liquidity into financial markets, the threat of future consequences in the form of inflation is keeping many in the crypto community up at night, with major crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX now advising clients...
Venezuelans Can Now Use Bitcoin to Pay for Goods at 20,000 PoS Terminals
19.5.2020
Venezuelans will now be able to use bitcoin to pay for goods and services at more than 20,000 point-of-sale (PoS) terminals throughout the struggling South American country. This follows a deal between Panamanian crypto exchange Cryptobuyer and local payments processor Mega Soft to connect some...
Venezuelans Use Bitcoin as Gateway to Buy Foreign Fiat - Research
27.3.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) continues to boom in Venezuela – but only because it is helping citizens buy hard-to-purchase foreign fiats, says an industry observer.
As previously reported, trading volumes on peer-to-peer (P2P) platform LocalBitcoins have spiked again in recent weeks.
In a report from the Open...
Lebanon Fights for Separation of Money and State as Residents Use Bitcoin to Evade Capital Controls
27.2.2020
Mass unrest in Lebanon due to allegations of political corruption and heavy handed capital controls has carried over into the new year, with reports pointing to a notable uptick in bitcoin trading from the embattled nation. As residents seek to preserve as much value as they can while government...
Curious About Bitcoin, Nigerians See Increasing Opportunities to Buy and Spend Cryptocurrencies
17.2.2020
Higher prices since the start of the year have been restoring popular interest in cryptocurrencies. Google searches for “bitcoin” have increased since December to about half of those registered in June last year. There’s one country that sticks out as a benchmark for...
Zero Chance Wikipedia Will Ever Use Bitcoin SV, Says Jimmy Wales
7.2.2020
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales doubts that BSV will ever be useful for the online encyclopedia
Skrill Now Lets You Swap BTC for BCH
2.12.2019
Online payments service Skrill has introduced a new feature allowing users to directly exchange cryptocurrencies. The crypto-to-crypto option gives you the opportunity to use bitcoin core (BTC) stored in your wallet to buy and sell eight other supported cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin cash...