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Coinbase

Coinbase will provide crypto custody services in Germany

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Bitcoin exchange Coinbase, listed on the Nasdaq, has received permission to provide crypto custody services in Germany. That is stated on the website of the country's Federal Financial Supervision Authority (BaFin). According to the announcement, the German subsidiary of Coinbase Germany GmbH is...

Morgan Stanley GBTC

Morgan Stanley Bought Over 28,000 Shares of the GBTC

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New York-headquartered international bank Morgan Stanley acquired 28,289 shares of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust via its Europe Opportunity Fund. The recent filing with the SEC shows that the deal took place in April. The Fund's objective is to get the highest amount of income by investing in assets that...

Mexico

Mexican authorities reacted to Banco Azteca's Bitcoin camp

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Earlier this week, it became known that one of the largest banks in South America is ready to work with bitcoin (BTC). Mexican Banco Azteca will be able to become part of the infrastructure for processing crypto transactions, said the head of this financial giant Ricardo Salinas Pliego. The...

ARK Invest Bitcoin ETF

ARK Invest Files For Bitcoin ETF

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On June 28, the asset management ARK Invest applied with the US SEC to create its BTC-based exchange-traded fund. The company's founder and CEO, Catherine Wood, who has always supported innovations, now has a goal to offer a Bitcoin-based product. Despite the present price decline, Catherine Wood...

Ethereum

Ethereum fees fell to the lowest level since December 2020

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Along with the fall in the price of Ether (ETH) and the weakening of the network hashrate, there is a rapid decline in processing fees. Computing power on the ETH blockchain at the end of last week plummeted to 449,228 terahesh per second (TH / s), the lowest since March 2021. Ethereum fees are now...

Huobi China crypto

Huobi Disallows Chinese Residents to Purchase Derivatives

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Seychelles-based crypto exchange Huobi renewed user conditions. The new terms define that users in China won't be able to purchase derivatives anymore. However, Chinese customers can continue to use the network for spot trading. Note that spot trading refers to the operation type when the purchase...

Swiss National Bank

The Swiss central bank does not plan to issue its token

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The Swiss National Bank (SNB) does not consider it necessary to launch a digital currency. The chief economist of the Central Bank, Carlos Lenz, announced there is no need for a digital franc. The current financial system of the state works fine even without a token. In parallel, Lenz criticized...

India crypto investments

Crypto Investments in India from $200 M to $40 B in a Year

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Data from Chainalysis shows that Indian's share of crypto investments has gone up to $40 M. Last year, the amount was $200 M. The youngest investors of the country are more tended to invest in cryptocurrencies than in precious metals. Over 15 million Indians are now purchasing cryptocurrencies....

Banco Azteca

Banco Azteca will handle bitcoin transactions

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Billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego represents the bitcoin camp. It ranks 166th in the world in terms of its capital. Late last week, the financier announced that his bank would be the first in Mexico to handle cryptocurrency. Banco Azteca will handle bitcoin transactions, Pliego said. MicroStrategy...

Binance UK

The UK's FCA Banned Binance. What Impacts Does it Have?

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On June 26, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consumer warning on banning the crypto exchange platform Binance from delivering operations in the country. The decision refers to Binance Markets Limited (BML) and the main company Binance Group. The regulatory body didn't clarify...

Musk

Elon Musk supports DOGE, joining supporters of the update

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk often backs his favorite cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE). The posts of a businessman periodically provoke a rise in the value of this altcoin. That is exactly the situation we observe again at the beginning of this...

Iran crypto mining

Iranian Regulatory Gives 30 Licenses to Crypto Mining Farms

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Iran's Ministry of Industry has allowed 30 crypto mining companies to carry out operations after receiving licenses. The news was published on the official website of the country's regulatory body. Semnan province got six licenses. Alborz, Mazandaran, East Azarbaijan, and Zanjan got four licenses...

Ethereum

Ether hashrate drops 20% due to shutdown of Chinese miners

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Bitcoin miners are not the only ones suffering from repression in China. Forced to suspend equipment and those pools that provide the computing power of the Ethereum network. Over the past two weeks, there has been a rapid decline in the ETH hashrate. An important development was the recent...

Virus

Miner virus is entering devices through pirated games

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The Avast antivirus development team has detected malicious software that penetrates the victim's computer and other devices through pirated games. The Crackonosh virus infiltrates the equipment and starts using its power for hidden mining (cryptojacking). Earlier it was reported that most often...

Elon Musk about Shiba Inu

Elon Musk Tweets About Shiba Inu. The Coin's Price Surges

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who frequently mentions cryptocurrencies in his Tweets, posted about the meme coin Shiba Inu (SHIB). On June 25, he wrote he's going to name his SHIB "Floki". My Shiba Inu will be named Floki— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 25, 2021...

JP Morgan

JPMorgan does not rule out the fall of bitcoin to $ 25,000

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The cryptocurrency market is still dominated by bearish sentiment. The risks of a new Bitcoin rollback periodically increase according to a study by JPMorgan investment bank analysts. They do not exclude that the result of the negative trend that we have been observing over the past few weeks will...

Vinnik

The court in Paris upheld the verdict to Vinnik

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The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed the decision of the first instance to imprison Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik for five years. Citing Vinnik's lawyer Frederic Belo, the defense plans to file a cassation appeal. According to Belo, the court made a "lazy decision" without understanding...

Sam Bankman-Fried about the BTC price

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Talked About the BTC price

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Crypto billionaire, the founder of the exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, expressed his views about the future price of Bitcoin during a recent interview with Yahoo Finance. He is sure the crypto trading trend came to stay. Sam Bankman-Fried said he would be surprised if there wasn't at least one...

Cryptocurrency came to us in 2009 and became a twofold phenomenon. Many think these assets will bring freedom to the traditional financial system: many suppose they can give opportunities to scammers and fraud. But no matter what, everyone understands that crypto has become a serious game-changer in world economics.

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