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A Mysterious Dogecoin Address Absorbed 27% of the Supply, the Top 20 Addresses Captured 50%
5.2.2021
Just recently, the crypto asset dogecoin has seen some significant price gains and on Wednesday, Tesla’s founder Elon Musk tweeted about the digital currency incessantly. While people have been discussing the dogecoin pumps and Elon’s suggestive tweets, crypto supporters have been...
All Tifon Gas Stations in Croatia Now Accept Cryptocurrencies
5.2.2021
Forty-six Tifon gas stations across Croatia have reportedly started accepting cryptocurrency payments. Using payment processor Paycek, customers can pay with a number of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and ether. Tifon gas stations in Croatia started accepting cryptocurrency payments at...
African Hip Hop Artist Davido ‘Thinking of Starting a Bitcoin Trading Company’
5.2.2021
Popular Nigerian hip hop artist Davido has sparked off a buzz about crypto assets after tweeting about his intention to start a bitcoin trading company. With the short tweet, Davido becomes the latest African celebrity to express interest in starting a crypto business. Senegalese singer Akon...
Indian Crypto Industry Launches Campaign Urging Lawmakers to Dismiss Crypto Ban Bill
5.2.2021
Indian crypto exchanges have pooled their resources together and launched a campaign to gain support from as many parliament members as possible about cryptocurrency regulation. The crypto bill is listed to soon be introduced in parliament. It seeks to prohibit cryptocurrencies while creating...
Crypto-Friendly Travel Firm Travala Becomes the First Merchant to Offer Binance Pay as a Payment Method
5.2.2021
Crypto-friendly travel website Travala has announced the integration of a brand-new payment application, Binance Pay. With such a move, the travel booking company becomes the first merchant to implement Binance Pay as a payment form after its launch on Feb. 3. Five Cryptos and One Fiat Currency...
Former South Korean Social Media Giant to Relaunch Its Business by Creating a New Ethereum-Based Token
5.2.2021
A social media giant that significantly impacted South Korea’s internet influence in the early 2000s is set to take a second breath. The company plans to regain its popularity by launching a new cryptocurrency. New Ownership Reportedly Got Over $7 Million From Investors to Rebrand Cyworld...
Guggenheim Investments Increases Bitcoin Fair Value Estimate — Says BTC Price Could Reach $600K
5.2.2021
Guggenheim Global Chief Investment Officer Scott Minerd has increased his bitcoin fair value estimate. He now says that the price of the cryptocurrency could reach $600K based on his firm’s fundamental research. Guggenheim’s SEC filing to invest half a billion dollars in bitcoin became...
Spanish Treasury Releases Guidelines to Minimize the Risk of Tax Evasion With Cryptocurrencies
5.2.2021
The State Agency for Tax Administration of Spain published guidelines to reduce tax evasion for cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin. The document is part of the general program of the so-called Annual Tax and Customs Control Plan. Spanish Tax Authorities Could Ask Local Exchanges for Customers Data...
Crypto-Centric VC Fund Lures in Billionaire Investor Paul Tudor Jones and Rapper LL Cool J
5.2.2021
This week the former Digital Currency Group (DCG) Vice President of Investments, Travis Scher, announced a $72 million crypto-focused venture capital fund backed by the billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones and hip-hop star LL Cool J. The crypto VC fund was invoked by Scher, the private equity...
Sky High Bitcoin and Ethereum Fees: While Prices Jump the Cost to Transfer Follows Suit
4.2.2021
While a number of digital currencies have seen price gains the two leading crypto assets, bitcoin and ethereum have seen transaction fees skyrocket. For instance, data shows that the median fee for a bitcoin transaction is $8.58, while the median fee is $9.35 when spending ether. Meanwhile,...
Some Typography Blog Posts I’ve Bookmarked and Read Lately
4.2.2021
Font-size: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property — From Manish Goregaokar in 2017. Of many oddities, I found the one where font: medium monospace renders at 13px where font: medium sans-serif renders at 16px particularly weird.
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Argo Blockchain Buys 172.5 Bitcoins as Reserve Asset, Monthly Revenue Soars 52%
4.2.2021
Argo Blockchain said Wednesday that it bought 172.5 bitcoins in the second half of January as part of its asset management strategy. ● In a trading update, the London Stock Exchange-listed bitcoin miner also reported strong revenue growth during the review month, climbing 52% to £2.48...
Analysis Shows Bitcoin Whales Are Stockpiling, but ‘BTC Ownership Is Not Highly Concentrated’
4.2.2021
During the last few months, a few reports from mainstream media (MSM) outlets tried to prove that a large sum of bitcoin is controlled by a small group of people. Recently, Bloomberg claimed that “2% of accounts control 95% of all bitcoin,” a claim that doesn’t hold weight...
Circle Launches USD Coin on the Stellar Network
4.2.2021
Circle and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced that the second-biggest stablecoin is now available within their network. USD Coin (USDC) is accessible through five integrated wallets, and it can be tradeable on their ecosystem, said the USDC issuer. Stellar Has Been the Official...
Doge Token Pumps After Elon Musk Tweets ‘Dogecoin Is the People’s Crypto’
4.2.2021
Elon Musk has tweeted that dogecoin is people’s crypto shortly after the billionaire pledged to go off the social media platform for while. Incidentally, the token, which traded at $0.0411 on February 3, surged to $0.0588 just as Musk was tweeting. However, at the time of writing, the token...
South African Taxpayers Who Fail to Disclose Income From Cryptocurrency Trading Face Possible Jail Time
4.2.2021
According to a report, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) has sent out audit requests to taxpayers asking them to disclose their cryptocurrency trades and purchases. Taxpayers that fail to correctly disclose their income from bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies may be “liable to a fine...
Sweet Launches Broad-Scale NFT Solution in Partnership With Bitcoin.com
4.2.2021
PRESS RELEASE. February 4, 2021 – New York, New York – Sweet, in partnership with Bitcoin.com, has announced the launch of a highly-scalable Non-Fungible Token (NFT) platform for the broad distribution of digital collectibles and digital merchandise. Leveraging Simple Ledger Protocol...
Report: Bitcoin Overtakes Gold in the U.S. as the 4th Most Popular Investment Vehicle
4.2.2021
Research by Bitflyer released today indicates the growing popularity of the cryptocurrency as an American household investment option. But not in Japan. Stocks Remain the #1 Investment Vehicle Bitflyer, a Japanese crypto exchange, released a research paper that dives into cryptocurrency sentiment...
Bitcoin for Corporations- Michael Saylor Expects an ‘Avalanche’ of Firms to Own Bitcoin
4.2.2021
This week the firm Microstrategy held an event called “Bitcoin for Corporations” which looks at concepts like macro strategy, corporate playbooks, and legal considerations toward bitcoin. Prior to the event, Microstrategy CEO and bitcoin bull, Michael Saylor, said “professionals...
Mark Cuban Tells Stock Traders That BTC Hodlers ‘Are a Great Example to Follow’
4.2.2021
Billionaire and crypto-asset supporter, Mark Cuban has identified bitcoin hodlers’ endurance as a model that stock investors can follow. According to the billionaire, after acquiring the asset at high prices back in 2017, the hodlers “held on because they believed in the asset.”...