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World-famous DJ David Guetta is ready to sell an elite apartment in Miami for cryptocurrency. The musician put up housing in a prestigious area of ​​the city for $ 14 million. He is also ready to accept payment in bitcoin or ether. If we take the current prices of these digital currencies as a...

Businessman Jack Dorsey said he sees a possibility to include Bitcoin's Layer 2 solution Lightning Network into one of the media platforms led by him. When Dorsey posted about sphinx_chat, a forum where people can talk about lightning, a user named @deyonte, suggested Lightning Network's inclusion...

Interest in Dogecoin remains to be high. There are a series of NFTs with the image of Shiba Inu presented on the website very.auction. One of them was required for 1696 Ether valued at $4 M. The buyer was PleasrDAO, a club interested in buying blockchain-based collectibles. The photo of the Shiba...

The press center of the Texas Department of Banking said that now local lending institutions can process customer transactions with cryptocurrencies. In particular, they will be able to provide services for storing and accepting bitcoin or other virtual coins. A special order from the department,...

The head of the Kraken crypto exchange Jesse Powell said that his team is not abandoning plans to attract investments in the stock market. The company was tasked with listing on one of the traditional exchanges as early as 2022. Previously, Dan Held, representing the Kraken administration, told...

Back in the fall of last year, Brazilian Economy Minister Paulo Guedes announced his country's intention to launch a national digital currency (CBDC). The creation of the token will become part of a large-scale project of the authorities to digitize the economy. Moreover, the head of the department...

In one of his recent interviews to CNBC, Reddit co-founder, American internet entrepreneur and investor Alexis Ohanian talked about crypto, momentum investments and his crypto holdings. When asked what cryptocurrency is worth thinking about, Ohanian said his answer won’t be Dogecoin. He...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has called on American investors not to invest in bitcoin futures. The corresponding notification was published last Thursday. This document states that even if investors decide to channel their capital into BTC-focused products, then they must analyze...

BMC (Bitcoin Mining Council) gave more information about the organization and who are its members. The Chief Executive Officer of the enterprise intelligence firm MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor is a co-founder of the undertaking, who describes it as an open forum for joining Bitcoin miners. The...

In late summer 2021, Interactive Brokers clients will be able to trade cryptocurrencies on the broker's platform. “We have been asked about this, and we will fulfill this wish by the end of the summer,” said the head of the company, Thomas Peterffy. The broker currently offers Bitcoin futures...

Ken Moelis, the chairman of an international investment bank and financial advisory Moelis & Co disclosed during a Bloomberg Deals that he is exploring the crypto industry and for new possibilities both for himself and for business. Talking about the crypto industry, Moelis said his entity is...

The Ministry of Public Security in China announced arresting more than 1.100 persons, who are accused of money laundering for telecommunication network fraud. Beforehand, the Chinese government reiterated the crackdown on crypto trading and mining. The country's police and security authority...

The Polkadot platform team stated their willingness to start auctions for the sale of slots for launching parachains on the experimental Kusama network from June 15, 2021. Kusama started operations in 2019. According to a blog post, the first active parachain called Shell launched in May 2021. The...

In connection with the recent hacker attack on the Colonial Pipeline and the growing scale of bitcoin extortion, the US President plans to raise the issue of regulating the cryptosphere at the next G7 summit. Jake Sullivan, the current national security adviser to Joe Biden, told reporters about...

The NEAR Foundation, a non-profit organization, has partnered with the South Pole and Mintbase to announce a Green NFT auction. ForkLog was informed about this by representatives of the project. “This is part of our journey to decarbonize the entire IT sector and turn important technologies like...

Ripple CTO David Schwartz has posted a proposal to launch federated sidechains powered by XRP Ledger. The solution will allow you to connect smart contracts and create decentralized applications using the native network token. According to Schwartz, smart contracts are one of the most requested...

Tim Wu, network neutrality coiner, professor of Law, Science, and Technology, advisor for the White House disclosed he holds a significant part of his capital in crypto. The news was published in the magazine "Politico". As noted in the publishment, Wu holds between $1 M and $5 M in BTC...

Billionaire Mar Lasry, the founder of Avenue Capital Management, said bitcoin's skyrocketing growth in 2021 exceeded his expectations. He also expressed regret that he had not invested enough in the first cryptocurrency. “As more people start using Bitcoin, the chances of continued growth are...