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At the WEF in Davos, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse called the initial public offering (IPO) the company's “natural evolution.” So, he said that in the next year, in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, it will be possible to observe an IPO boom and did not exclude its Ripple. “We are...

The Swiss non-governmental organization World Economic Forum (WEF) has introduced the first of its kind guide for central banks developing their own digital coins. This was reported on the WEF website. The CBDC Policy Maker Toolkit framework provides guidelines for central banks in various...

One of the world's most popular websites for adult content, Pornhub, has added the Tether stablecoin (USDT) as a payment option. The Pornhub blog says USDT support comes from a partnership with TRON. Therefore, to make a payment using Tether, the service recommends using the TRONLink wallet. A new...

Jack Dorsey's Square Inc. received an American patent on payment network technology for direct crypto-fiat transactions on Tuesday. According to a report from the US Patent and Trademark Office, the payment network allows users with assets of various types to conduct transactions between...

Venezuelans, who got state crypto coins as a result of free distribution, now trade it on LocalBitcoins for half the official rate. The authorities of Venezuela lately carried a free distribution of Petro coins, as a result of which each citizen received 0.5 Petro. The authorities insist that the...

The Venezuelan development team is preparing a new solution for BTC operations without an Internet connection. The solution is a mesh network called Locha. The developers are also working on two devices that will allow users to connect to the BTC blockchain using long-range waves. This was reported...

British telecom Vodafone has become the eight corporation to quit the Libra Association. Both Libra Association and Vodafone affirmed the news on 21 Jan. Vodafone plans to give support earlier proposed for Libra to its well-organized and thriving digital payment service M-Pesa, which the...

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance crypto exchange, commented on an incident in which CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Peter Schiff lost access to his mobile bitcoin wallet. According to Zhao, centralized exchanges are the best way to store cryptocurrency. In particular, he cited the example of Binance,...

Montreal’s prosecutor’s office has filed four charges of $50 million in cryptocurrency fraud involving the substitution of SIM cards against an 18-year-old hacker. This was reported by local media. The indictment says that Bensaci was in a gang robbing Canadian and American crypto holders. SIM...

President of Venezuela Maduro proclaimed the founding of a new crypto casino in a beaten country where betting rooms have all but gone dead. Maduro said that a new casino is going to be in Ávila National Park’s Hotel Humboldt. The new casino is going to work on Venezuela's national crypto coin...

Well-known Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff told that he had lost access to all his coins, as his wallet password is no longer valid. For what reasons this happened, the financial expert was at a loss to answer, saying only that the wallet was compromised. I just lost all the #Bitcoin I have ever owned....

Lawyer of Craig Wright affirmed that his ward doesn't hold - nor even declare to hold - the private keys that can be applied to transfer $8 billion BTC that Satoshi mined in early times of the leading crypto. On Tuesday, Wright registered a statement affirming that he had acquired data to open...

36% of US small and medium-sized businesses accept cryptocoins as a payment method, and 59% of them previously acquired such assets for their own use. This is evidenced by a survey conducted by the order of the insurance company HSB. PRESS RELEASE: Our new national survey results conducted by...

Arcane Research analysts published a report, in which they shared their thoughts on the reasons for the recent Bitcoin SV rally, which grew by almost 200% in 7 days. The Weekly Update: 2017 sentiments are back in the crypto market, as altcoins register wild gains. Read more about this and other...

A young Swiss-regulated crypto bank Seba, which is carrying administrative licensing, plans to try a secondary funds raise to collect upper $95 million in extra reserves. Seba intends to obtain $96.5 million from new investors during the second round. After FINMA established the equipment to...

It was supposed that Pavel Durov is going to be interrogated in Dubai on January 7 and 8, and it actually happened. The transcript of the interrogation follows from the document in which Durov explains to the lawyers of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) how much money he spent on...

The Malaysian Securities Commission (SC) has developed rules for organizers of Initial Coin Offers (ICOs) and Initial Exchange Offers (IEOs). Startups are allowed to distribute tokens through venture capitalists and financial institutions without selling shares and without using debt instruments....

A crypto whale Bitfinex moved over $1.1 billion worth leading cryptocurrency on January 14 and paid only $83 fee for the transaction. This has become the network’s second-largest address. This move was initially spotted on social media, and users have immediately found out that the transaction...