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WhatsApp Will Enable Crypto Payments via Novi Wallet

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Meta's Novi wallet will allow transferring money via the popular communication app WhatsApp. As VP of product at Novi, Stephane Kasriel revealed, the feature becomes available today (Dec. 9) for a certain number of users in the USA. The executive said, sending money will be as simple as a message. ...

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Bitstamp Launches SHIB, GALA, PERP and DYDX

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Crypto exchange Butstamp revealed on Dec. 8 that it will add 4 new tokens: Shiba Inu (SHIB), Perpetual Protocol's PERP, dYdX (DYDX), and Gala Games (GALA). Today, the exchange revealed that users can place limit orders on SHIB and PERP pairs. SHIB is a popular meme coin. In July 2021, the Shiba Inu...

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Ubisoft Launches NFT Platform on Tezos

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Video game publisher and distributor Ubisoft partners with the blockchain protocol Tezos to launch an NFT platform, Ubisoft Quartz. As stated in a press release published by the company, players can get playable NFTs, Digits in an AAA game on the new network. Ubisoft will bring the first Digits to...

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Crypto Execs and Congress Discussed the Future of Finance

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Crypto representatives and congresspeople discussed the future of digital assets during the hearing called by the chairwoman of the House Committee of Financial Services, Maxine Waters. Mainly, members of congress were positive about the industry. FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, Coinbase CFO Alesia...

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Polygon Has Huge News to Reveal on December 9

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Ethereum scaling solution Polygon will hold a discussion on Zero-Knowledge rollups on Dec. 9, which the platform refers to as the ZK day. Polygon revealed the news via Twitter on Dec. 2. Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin will participate in the event. Also, on that day, the company will reveal a...

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Crypto Executives Will Testify Before Congress

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Crypto Chief Executive Officers will appear before Congress on Dec. 8. The news comes as the crypto regulatory question continues to be one of the primary questions in the country. The hearing was called by the U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, chair of the House...

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Bloomberg Expects US to Embrace Crypto in 2022

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Bloomberg Intelligence released a crypto sphere outlook for 2022. The insights by Commodity Strategist Mike McGlone show that in 2022 there will be a clear regulatory framework and bullish trends in the crypto industry in the US. The prediction is based on China's ban and the development of...

Fidelity Nexo partnership

Nexo and Fidelity Will Offer Products for Institutions

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Digital currency loan service Nexo collaborates with enterprise-grade crypto custody Fidelity Digital Assets (FDAS) to enable large entities access crypto services. Per the release published by Nexo on December 7, the companies will introduce first-class financial operations and...

Eric Schmidt Chainlink

Eric Schmidt Now Is an Advisor at Chainlink

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Eric Schmidt, an American businessman and software engineer, now is an advisor at Chainlink Labs, which stands behind the development of the popular open-source blockchain platform Chainlink. Schmidt has an impressive career history. Previously he was CEO and executive chairman of Google. Eric...

Australia crypto adoption

Survey Shows Crypto Adoption Grows in Australia

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More people now own crypto in Australia. A 2021 survey by the Independent Reserve Cryptocurrency Index indicates that the number of Australians owning crypto grew to 28.8% from 18.4% in 2020. Over 2000 people participated in the survey. The results show that 89% of investors profited. 26.6% of...

Craig Wright Kleiman Bitcoin trial

Jury Decided Craig Wright Didn't Owe Kleiman 1.1m Bitcoins

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As per the decision of a Florida jury, announced on Monday Australian computer scientist and businessman Craig Wright did not owe 1.1 m BTC to the family of cyber forensics David Kleiman. Court decided that Wright must pay 100 m in punitive damages over intellectual properspecialistty rights to a...

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Gemini Partners with Colombia's Largest Bank

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New-York based crypto platform Gemini partners with Colombia's largest commercial bank, Bancolombia, thus allowing Colombians to trade BTC, Eth, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. Services will become available from Dec. 14. From that day on, a certain group of the bank's users will be able to access...

Brian Roberts OpenSea

Brian Roberts Left His Position at Lyft and Joined OpenSea

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Ex Chief Financial Officer of the ridesharing services company Lyft, Brian Roberts joined leading NFT marketplace OpenSea. Brian Roberts is the first CFO of the NFT platform. In his interview with Bloomberg, Roberts said although he loves Lyft, the decision of resignation became easier taking into...

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Crypto Startup Stacked Raised $35 M

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Chicago-based automated robo-advisor for cryptocurrencies and digital assets, Stacked, raised $35 M in a Series A funding stage. The fundraising was led by Alameda Research, established by crypto influencer Sam Bankman-Fried, and Mirana Ventures. Among other companies that took part were Fidelity...

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$2.5 Bln of Leveraged Crypto Positions Were Liquidated

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On Saturday, Bitcoin-focused technology and financial services firm NYDIG informed that around $2.5 billion of crypto leveraged positions were liquidated. $1.1 billion of the amount were Bitcoin positions. Bitcoin dropped below $47.000 on December 4 and was traded at around $46.600 according to...

BitMart hacked

BitMart Hacked: Loss of Around $190 M Is Estimated

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Centralised crypto trading platform BitMart was exploited. On December 5, the founder and CEO of the company, Sheldon Xia tweeted that a major security breach was detected. He informed that the hack impacted one of Ethereum and one of Binance Smart Chain hot wallets. Attackers could withdraw...

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Charlie Munger Applauds China’s Bitcoin Ban

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Billionaire investor Charlie Munger is in the camp of Bitcoin critics. During the Sohn Conference in Sydney, the businessman said he wished crypto hadn’t been invented. As the Australian Financial Review reports, Munger finds China is right to ban cryptocurrencies, and he admires the move....

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Dip in Crypto; BTC Below $50.000, El Salvador Adds Coins

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The crypto has seen a dip today. Bitcoin price fell below $50.000 for the first time since October 6. In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin dropped by over 17.5%. Currently, it trades at around $46.900, with a market cap of $897 billion. Other major cryptocurrencies, Ether, ADA, Binance Coin also declined...

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