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Akon city

Akon got permission to build his crypto city in Senegal

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Famous rapper and businessperson Akon made a post on Twitter that he agreed with the state of Senegal. According to their adjustment, Akon got permission for founding his crypto-oriented - Akon City. Just finalized the agreement for AKON CITY in Senegal. Looking forward to hosting you there in the...

Craig Wright

Craig Wright claims to prove Bitcoin holdings

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Advocates of Craig Wright have notified the trial session that the accused was given the required private keys to open the encrypted records that contain data about Wright's BTC reserves. The plaintiff Ira Klaiman has also received the confirmation about Wright's access to BTC holdings. February 3...

President of Venezuela

Venezuela’s President Maduro promised to revive Petro Coin

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During his speech on the Constituent Assembly on January 14, Nicholas Maduro vowed to renew the country's flunked crypto coin for everything from federal payments to oil purchases. He mentioned that state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA is going to begin negotiations of 5000 barrels in Petros...

Huobi partnered with fäm Properties

Huobi started a partnership with a real estate company

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fäm Properties is an oriented-on-technologies real estate company, which has decided to open itself for cryptos. A famous blockchain-based platform Huobi started a partnership with fäm Properties, and now they give a possibility of making crypto payments to investors. Investors are now going to...

The US Department of the Treasury

US Treasury tests blockchain for tracking federal grants

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The Department of the Treasury in the US, which controls government income, is examining blockchain tech for tracking governmental grant refunds. Modernization program administrator at the USDT Craig Fischer told during one of the last conferences that the Treasury is near to completing a PoC...

hodling bitcoin

“HODLing” trend: 10M BTCs haven’t moved in more than a year

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“HODLing” has become trendy again. The cumulative number of Bitcoins that haven't moved in more than a year has reached the mark of 10M. An organization that creates crypto data supports Digital Assets Data reported that approximately 10.7 million BTCs haven't swapped hands in over 12 months....

British rapper Zuby

Rapper Zuby accept BTC payments for his goods and services

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British rapper Zuby published that he can now receive Bitcoin payments for his services and goods. He mentioned that he is not going to convert the cryptocurrency into fiat instantly and will prefer hodling it. Zuby is operating with Coinbase Commerce to make crypto payments available for its...

A crypto lending startup company BlockFi

Crypto lending startup BlockFi now supports LTC and USDC

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A crypto loaning company BlockFi added Litecoin and USD Coin to its supported assets. It'll allow the users to buy, sell, and get credits backed by the currencies. Zac Prince, the CEO of this startup said, that during this year, their organization aims to add 5-10 new assets, including LTC and...

Australian bushfires

Binance donated $1 million for Australian Bushfires’ victims

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Binance has given $1 million in crypto for helping the sufferers of Australian fires. Binance Charity has started a program to assist the Australian bushfires' aid projects....

Tron's privacy coin

Justin Sun: The privacy coin of TRON is on the way

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The CEO of TRON Justin Sun tweeted that a TRON-based privacy coin will be issued in the nearest future. Privacy coins on #TRON is on the way. What's the best name for it? $TRX #TRX @Poloniex— Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) January 6, 2020 Sun proposed users to give name variants to the...

Bitwala supports Ether

Berlin-based Bitwala bank now supports Ethereum

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Europe's premier Bitcoin bank Bitwala is extending its service and now will support Ethereum. The Berlin-based bank is considered to be one of the most successful Bitcoin banks, that has everything a trader usually needs. This platform combines crypto and fiat speculation and lets its users make...

Qasem Soleimani

Bitcoin will rise if there is a war between the US and Iran

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Events across the world are affecting the price of BTC. The killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani is one of the events that make the market move. As was expected, the oil jumped in price, and gold did so. But in nowadays world, there is a new safe asset - BTC. It rose in price for 5% in just...

CEO of Coinbase

Coinbase CEO: 20s will see an anoncoin mainstream adoption

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Chief Executive Officer of Coinbase Brian Armstrong says he considers that «privacy coins» will become mainstream in the 20s. In his post published on the US-based crypto exchange's blog on January 3, Armstrong mentioned that he thinks, in the 20s, everyone will view the union of privacy points...

YouTube admits its mistake

Youtube admits its mistake over crypto video removal

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On December 25, YouTube has deleted crypto-related videos from its website. Currently, the popular website has reinstalled the videos, saying that they were removed "in error." Numbers of YouTubers that are focused on Bitcoin and crypto-related videos received a message about their video...

Bahamian Central Bank

Central Bank of Bahamas will pilot its digital currency

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Bahamian Central Bank is going to present a digital version of the Bahamian Dollar. The announcement on the official website was declared on December 24, and according to it, CBOB is going to issue CBDC pilot on December 27. The pilot is going to continue in the first half of 2020 to Abaco, barrier...

The American Cancer Society

American Cancer Society is now accepting BTC donations

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One of the hugest non-profit corporations in the USA - The American Cancer Society (ACS) - is starting to receive Bitcoin donations via BitPay. A representative of ACS Brant Woodward said: "It's not extraordinary that our organization is trying to withdraw support from a large specter of...

Rakuten Group

Rakuten will let its customers swap points for crypto

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One of the most remarkable e-commerce businesses Rakuten has declared, that its users will have a new service soon that will let them swap their loyalty points for three preeminent crypto coins. Rakuten Group has about 1.3 billion members. According to the corporation, it is an excellent move for...

Thailand visa

Thailand will integrate blockchain into E-Visa system

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Thailand is one of the most popular touristic places nowadays. The government intends to integrate blockchain technology on Electronic Visa On Arrival (eVOA) to speed up the process of Visa application and to protect all the data of the country's guests. The new version of eVOA will be available...

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