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Argentina

Argentina orders crypto exchanges to provide data on traders

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Control over crypto traders began to be strengthened by many countries. South Korea, for example, will force all users of bitcoin exchanges to pay tax to the treasury from 2022. Argentina is also acting in a similar direction. The country’s tax office this week ordered all crypto exchanges to...

Emily Ratajkowski

Emily Ratajkowski sells NFT at Christie's for $175,000

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American model and actress Emily Ratajkowski sold NFT Buying Myself Back: A Model for Redistribution at Christie's for $175,000. The name NFT refers to an article by Ratajkowski in The Cut blog of New York Magazine on September 15, 2020. In the article, the model criticized artist Richard Prince...

Argo

Argo Blockchain got green data centers for mining in Canada

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Argo Blockchain has bought two data centers in the Canadian province of Quebec. The facilities previously owned by GPU.one are using the power of the local hydroelectric power plant. The total capacity of the data centers is 20 MW. They already house "a significant portion" of the Argo...

Microsoft

Microsoft will close Azure Blockchain platform

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Microsoft will close its cloud blockchain platform Azure Blockchain Service on September 10, 2021. The service does not support the deployment of new projects from May 10. The clients of the platform are JPMorgan financial holding, Starbucks coffee chain, and Singapore Airlines. Users were asked to...

Craig Wright

Court allowed Wright to file a lawsuit against Bitcoin Core

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The High Court of London has allowed self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright to file a lawsuit against Bitcoin Core developers. The company represents the interests of Wright's Tulip Trading Limited (TTL). There are 16 developers as defendants, including Jonas Schnelli, Peter Wülle, Marco...

DBS

Singapore's largest bank launches cryptocurrency trusts

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DBS Bank's Wealth Clients Division has added Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and XRP investment trusts to its product line. The tool is available in US dollars, Japanese yen, Hong Kong, and Singapore national currencies. The bank said that this is the first proposal of this kind in Asia. The...

Anthony Scaramucci

The head of SkyBridge Capital bets 0.005 BTC on Tesla mining

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The founder of the SkyBridge Capital investment company Anthony Scaramucci divined that in the coming year one of Elon Musk's companies will enter the market of environmentally friendly cryptocurrency mining. “Elon is not a man of half measures. I predict he will revolutionize the bitcoin mining...

Diem

Diem withdrew the application for a license in Switzerland

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The project behind the development of the digital currency, Diem, has withdrawn an application for a license as a payment system in Switzerland. This was reported by the local Financial Market Supervision Authority (FINMA). The Swiss regulator explained the withdrawal of the application by the fact...

Chia

Phison predicts SSD shortage by 2023 due to Chia miners

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The Taiwanese company Phison Electronics has warned of an upcoming increase in SSD prices due to the excitement around the mining of the Chia cryptocurrency. In the third quarter of 2021, Phison, along with other manufacturers of NAND flash memory and SSD controllers, intends to increase the cost...

Hungary

Hungary decided to reduce pressure on crypto-traders

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Back in 2014, the Hungarian Central Bank urged citizens not to invest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. According to the regulator, investing in digital assets is an extremely risky venture. BTC and other virtual coins show a wide range of price fluctuations, and the investor risks losing all...

Palantir Technologies

Palantir Technologies will consider investing in Bitcoin

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Data analysis software developer Palantir Technologies is considering investing in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Writes about this CNBC concerning a statement for investors. The company announced financial results for the first quarter of 2021 and noted that digital assets are "clearly...

Coinbase

Bitcoin exchange app Coinbase tops US AppStore rating

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For the first time since 2017, the Coinbase app ranked #1 on the US App Store. Coinbase was named one of the ten most popular free apps on the App Store on the day of the Bitcoin exchange listing on the Nasdaq, April 14. As a reminder, Coinbase received more than 2,000 government requests in six...

NiiFi

Ethereum-exchange NiiFi attracted $3 million in investments

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NiiFi, based on the second level Ethereum solution Nahmii 2.0, raised $ 3 million. The seed round of financing was led by the DARMA Capital fund launched by ex-ConsenSys employees. The round was also attended by A195 Capital, AU21 Capital, Blocksync Ventures, Lotus Capital, Matterblock, Moonwhale...

Floyd Mayweather

Boxer Floyd Mayweather to release the NFT collection

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Multiple world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather has announced the release of a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFT) ahead of the fight against blogger Logan Paul. “Right now my career is over, but my name will always live on because of what I have done, the legacy I left, and the mark I left...

STC

The STC Token is live-and over 10 crypto exchanges are ready

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Being backed up by over 500 universities due to its unique approach towards students and cryptocurrencies, Student Coin succeeded in selling all its STC tokens dedicated to the ICO. Although the Launchpad was intended to last until April 30th, the 150th phase ended nine days sooner due to the...

Casper Network

Casper Network grew by more than 100,000% in a month

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The price of the token of the Casper Network blockchain platform (CSPR) reached $ 40 before the official start of sales in the secondary market and renewed its all-time high. The CSPR price has increased by 128,000% since the beginning of April, and by 171% over the last 24 hours. At the time of...

Live Nation

Live Nation will immortalize iconic concert moments in NFT

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The head of American entertainment company Live Nation, Michael Rapino, in the framework of the quarterly earnings report, spoke about plans to enter the market of NFT to perpetuate the "magic moments" of concerts. “We envision Live Nation with a marketplace and see some of the live...

Elon Musk

Does Elon Musk plan to accept DOGE payments in Tesla?

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Elon Musk made a post on Twitter asking if users would like Tesla to receive payments in Dogecoin. Do you want Tesla to accept Doge?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 11, 2021 Is he revealing the payment updates this way? Will find it out tomorrow when the poll...

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