Japanese financial giant sbi acquires crypto trading firm b2c2

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Wednesday, 16 December, 2020 at 09:15 GMT
Japanese financial giant SBI has completed another cryptocurrency-related acquisition in a move to bring more adoption to the industry. SBI Financial Services, a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, has acquired a United Kingdom-based crypto trading firm B2C2. According to an official Dec...
New wordpress plugin allows ad revenue in ethereum

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Friday, 11 December, 2020 at 09:57 GMT
WordPress, an open-source content management system accepted a new plugin on its platform that allows the content publishers to auction advertisement space for Ethereum. Dubbed ‘EthereumAds’, the WordPress plugin plans to compete with Good Adsense with the new advertising...
China to test payments for cbdc

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Monday, 7 December, 2020 at 14:50 GMT
China will test tap payments for its CBDC, digital yuan, this Friday, December 11. The new feature allows users to send digital currency without an internet connection. China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) trials have heated up in recent months as the country seeks to...
Plasmapay vs paypal for paying with crypto

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Saturday, 5 December, 2020 at 07:55 GMT
In a symbolic move that highlighted the progress cryptoassets have made in recent years, PayPal announced last week that it would make cryptoassets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum available to its 346 million users. This is an important step for the space, and will both increase...
German bank hauck & aufhauser to launch cryptocurrency fund

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Friday, 4 December, 2020 at 09:53 GMT
All professional and semi-professional can invest through the fund in a diversified crypto assets portfolio comprising of Bitcoin, Ether, and Stellar. ...
Ethereum 2 still has a long road ahead

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Thursday, 3 December, 2020 at 06:32 GMT
Ethereum 2.0 launched its Beacon Chain on Tuesday, marking the project’s transition to a proof-of-stake, or PoS, mining algorithm. With Phase 0 now in the rearview mirror, the founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet, Kosala Hemachandra, recently explained the next hurdle for Eth2. ...
Authorities cut off power for china’s yunnan btc miners

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Tuesday, 1 December, 2020 at 07:51 GMT
Local media reports reveal that electricity producers in Yunnan, China’s fourth-biggest province by Bitcoin hash rate, have been compelled to stop providing power to crypto miners. Authorities from the city of Baoshan are increasing their efforts to crack down on bitcoin...
Pizza hut in venezuela now accepts bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

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Monday, 30 November, 2020 at 08:20 GMT
An endless number of economic sanctions imposed by the United States and an endless number of bad policies imposed by the Venezuelan government have led to an increasing need for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the country. This week, Pizza Hut, one of the oldest pizza...
Libra association hires former occ executive as lead counsel

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Monday, 30 November, 2020 at 06:45 GMT
Switzerland-based Libra Association has announced Saumya Bhavsar as the general counsel for its payment subsidiary, Libra Networks. Bhavsar is joining Libra after having decades of experience in the banking and public sector, including eight years at the U.S. Office of the...
Germanys finance minister wants the eu to accelerate digital euro research

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Saturday, 28 November, 2020 at 10:00 GMT
Germany’s finance minister Olaf Scholz, a noted crypto critic, has said that he wants the European Central Bank to accelerate the research on the potential digital Euro. The finance minister is known for advocating anti-cryptocurrency sentiments while encouraging the EU to...

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