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MLB Steps Into the NFT World by Entering a Long-Term Partnership With Candy Digital
2.6.2021
On June 1, Major League Baseball (MLB) reporter David Adler announced the MLB organization established a long-term deal with the digital collectible company Candy Digital. The oldest American professional baseball organization is stepping into the non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles world...
One of Africa’s Oldest Wildlife Conservancies Accepts Crypto Donations
10.5.2021
One of Africa’s biggest wildlife conservancies, the Virunga National Park, which is situated in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), says it now accepts donations via cryptocurrency. It says such donations will be used in helping to protect DRC’s famed “mountain gorillas...
200-Year-Old American Wine Shop Now Accepts Cryptocurrencies
15.4.2021
Nearly every day now a new company is announcing the acceptance of cryptocurrencies in some form or another. Now one of the world’s largest fine wine auction houses and America’s oldest wine shop Acker has revealed digital currency acceptance to pay for auction payments and retail wine...
South African Crypto Exchange Ceases Operations Less Than a Month After Suspending BTC Withdrawals
7.4.2021
A South African cryptocurrency exchange, Ice3x, announced on April 6, that it will permanently stop operations, less than a month after suspending bitcoin and litecoin withdrawals. Ice3x, which one of the oldest crypto exchange in that country, says it came to this decision after lawyers advised...
World’s Fourth Oldest Auction House Sotheby’s Joins the NFT Ecosystem With a Mysterious Artist
18.3.2021
Following the $69 million non-fungible token (NFT) digital art auction at the world-famous auction house Christie’s, the British-founded American multinational corporation Sotheby’s is joining the NFT hype. Sotheby’s is partnering with a popular digital artist dubbed...
DC Comics Warns Freelancers Not to Participate in NFT Auctions Featuring the Company’s IP
16.3.2021
DC Comics, the American comic book publisher may be getting into the non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem in the future. The company is the oldest comic book publisher in the U.S. owning characters such as Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. In a letter dated on March 11, 2021, DC Comics’...
Colombia’s oldest commercial bank pilots crypto services
4.3.2021
One of the largest banks in Colombia, Banco de Bogotá, will pilot crypto services as part of a regulatory sandbox project
World’s Oldest Central Bank Extends Digital Currency Test Till 2022
17.2.2021
Sweden's Riksbank said it would continue work with Accenture on a potential e-krona digital currency until next year
Oldest US Bank BNY Mellon Sets Up Crypto Unit to Offer Bitcoin Services
12.2.2021
The Bank of New York Mellon, BNY Mellon, has set up a digital asset unit. The oldest bank in the U.S. plans to “hold, transfer, and issue” bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on behalf of its clients. The bank aims to eventually treat cryptocurrencies like any other assets. BNY Mellon...
America's Oldest Bank Goes Bitcoin
11.2.2021
The oldest bank in the US, New York Mellon Corp. will hold, transfer and issue bitcoin (BTC) and other unspecified cryptoassets on behalf of its asset-management clients, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Roman Regelman, chief executive of BNY Mellon’s asset-servicing and digital...
America's oldest bank, BNY Mellon, will custody Bitcoin
11.2.2021
The chief executive of the bank's asset-servicing business says digital assets are becoming "part of the mainstream."
Vietnam’s Oldest Bitcoin Exchange Adds Support for Lightning Network
25.1.2021
With VBT's integration, the Lightning Network now has support from half a dozen Bitcoin exchanges
Thailand’s Largest Bank Snubs Ripple – Selects Stellar-based Blockchain for Cross Border Remittances
12.12.2020
In an apparent snub to Ripple, Thailand’s oldest bank, Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) is set to open a new cross border remittances corridor in partnership with Lightnet, a fintech company that uses the Stellar blockchain. SCB says the partnership opens the door for more efficient cross border...
Euro stablecoin launched on Stellar by one of Europe's oldest banks
10.12.2020
The EURB is fully regulated and backed 100% by Euros, allowing banks and institutional investors to use the cryptocurrency without exposure to counterparty risk
One of the World’s Oldest Banks Is Issuing a Euro Stablecoin on Stellar
9.12.2020
Germany’s Bankhaus von der Heydt is working with Bitbond for the first direct issuance of a stablecoin by a bank on Stellar, the firms said
Oldest Bitcoin mining pool ‘immortalizes’ bullish Reuters headline
3.12.2020
Slush Pool encoded a Reuters headline in an apparent nod to the Bitcoin genesis block, which contains a banner from The Times
Gulden (NLC) – One of the Oldest Blockchain Platform
30.10.2020
Gulden is a blockchain-based cryptocurrency platform. It is one of the oldest and robust projects in the crypto ecosystem that was launched in April 2014. To probe in its history or evolution, it was initially created or formed to become the national cryptocurrency of the Netherlands; that is...
Bitcoin Obituaries Lists Another Crypto Eulogy, 2020 BTC Deaths in the Single Digits
9.9.2020
The infamous “Bitcoin Obituaries” has seen another addition to the long list of deaths since bitcoin’s oldest death on December 15, 2010. According to the list of articles with 382 deaths to-date, bitcoin was declared dead again on September 4, 2020. Ever since Satoshi Nakamoto...
Tencent Builds Blockchain Platform for China’s Oldest Wine Producer
2.8.2020
Tencent to build a blockchain-based wine traceability platform for China’s oldest wine producer
The Origins of the World’s Oldest Bitcoin Metric, Explained
19.7.2020
Bitcoin days destroyed (BDD) was first introduced as a concept back in 2011. At the time, it had only been two years since the creation of the world’s first cryptocurrency, bitcoin. Individuals were already beginning to innovate ways to measure on-chain transaction activity and value