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US Senators Seek to Forbid American Athletes From Receiving and Using Digital Yuan During Beijing Olympics
21.7.2021
Three U.S. senators have urged the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee to forbid American athletes from receiving or using digital yuan during the Beijing Olympics. Raising many concerns, including privacy, they warned, “Olympic athletes should be aware that the digital yuan...
Digital yuan pilots expand to insurance industry for the first time
21.7.2021
China's central bank digital currency can now be used on insurance policies that offer various levels of compensation for diagnosis of or death due to COVID-19
Turkish Draft Law Regulating Cryptocurrencies Enters Parliament in October
21.7.2021
The Turkish government has prepared a bill designed to implement new regulations for the country’s crypto space. The legislation, which will be filed in the parliament this fall, will introduce taxation for crypto holdings and specific capital requirements for companies operating with digital...
China Hits out at Senators Who Asked for an Olympic Block on Digital Yuan
21.7.2021
Beijing has lashed out at three Republican senators who have asked the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee to block American athletes from using the digital yuan, the central bank digital currency (CBDC) that China is hoping to dazzle the world with at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics...
China wants US senators to ‘stop making trouble’ out of digital yuan
21.7.2021
China's Foreign Ministry responded to U.S. senators' claim regarding the digital yuan's function as a tracking and tracing tool during the 2022 Beijing Winter Games
Georgian Government Embraces Blockchain to Promote Its Wines Globally
21.7.2021
As Georgia seeks to bring its millennia-old wine industry into the 21st century, it is collaborating with blockchain platform Wiv to put the nation’s winemakers in front of a global audience of wine collectors, producers, and merchants. Move Brings Wines and Accompanying Provenance...
Green energy crypto mining ETF launches on New York Stock Exchange
21.7.2021
The new exchange-traded fund will focus on environmentally friendly crypto mining infrastructure firms
PC Game Removes Denuvo DRM Before It Even Launches
21.7.2021
Humankind, one of my most anticipated games of 2021, was going to have Denuvo acting as its digital rights management (DRM). But after its developers found that it was impacting performance, they took it straight out.Read more
Study suggests Canadian CBDC could promote digital innovation within the country
20.7.2021
The Bank of Canada suggested that a Canadian CBDC could provide a number of innovations, including the elimination of transaction fees from debit and credit cards
Majority of Institutions to Hold Digital Assets in Near Future, Survey Suggests
20.7.2021
Most institutional investors look forward to adding digital assets to their portfolios, in spite of concerns over crypto market volatility. More than half of the respondents in a new survey conducted by Fidelity’s crypto subsidiary have revealed they already have digital asset investments....
Bank of Korea selects Kakao’s blockchain arm for digital won tests
20.7.2021
ConsenSys, a major Ethereum software company, will contribute its technology to South Korean CBDC simulations led by Ground X
Osprey Funds CEO says US will approve Bitcoin ETF in 2022 ‘at earliest’
20.7.2021
Greg King, CEO of Bitcoin trust issuer Osprey Funds, thinks the U.S. SEC has too many things on its plate this year to get to the issue of crypto ETF approvals
Majority of institutional investors ready to buy digital assets, study says
20.7.2021
A new study found that institutional investors’ appetite for digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, is growing
US lawmakers don't want Olympic athletes to use digital yuan at 2022 games
19.7.2021
The trio urged the Olympic committee to work with federal agencies "to protect the privacy of American athletes from the Chinese Communist Government."
The Best Nintendo Switch Memory Cards
19.7.2021
Nintendo Switch storage always has been and always will be a joke. Before Nintendo’s hybrid console released in early 2017, the then-unreleased Dragon Quest Heroes was revealed to be bigger than the available 32GB internal storage capacity. The Switch Lite, released two years later, didn’t improve...
Call of Duty: Warzone Players Are Going Invisible Again Using Red Doors
19.7.2021
Glitches cycle in and out of Call of Duty: Warzone like stray cats through an abandoned house, but invisibility has caused players more headaches than most. And despite past fixes, Call of Duty’s battle royale players once again appear to be getting shot by opponents they can’t see, this time...
Bitcoin’s Value Dropped 8% This Week, Analyst Says Equities Correction Could Impact Crypto
19.7.2021
Digital currency markets have slipped in value this week as bitcoin has shed more than 8% of its value over the last seven days. The entire market capitalization of all 10,000+ crypto assets has also dropped 3.4% in value to $1.25 trillion on Monday. Crypto markets are following the trend of large...
Grayscale ‘100% committed’ to turning GBTC into Bitcoin ETF — CEO
19.7.2021
Bitcoin is just a “couple of points of maturation” away from getting an approved ETF in the U.S., says Grayscale CEO
Tencent se chystá zase rozšiřovat, koupí studio Sumo Digital
19.7.2021
Tencent Buys Sumo Group For $1.3 Billion
19.7.2021
British company Sumo Group, whose various studios have worked on everything from Hitman to Forza to Disney Infinity, has been bought by Chinese giant Tencent for a whopping $1.3 billion, Reuters report.Read more