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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is pushing for Petro adoption, but locals are buying bitcoin in record amounts. | Image: Shutterstock The largest bank in Venezuela, the state-owned Bank of Venezuela, appears to have launched services to facilitate transactions in the country’s state-issued oil-backed virtual currency, the Petro. According to Decrypt, Bank of...

Hey, Ripple: if you want to continue to anger your fans and customers, just keep doing what you’re doing! The company has now moved more than $26 million USD in XRP units to a wallet held by one of the company’s founders, Jed McCaleb, the same man who co-founded Stellar and the now defunct Mt. Gox exchange in Japan in 2011.Ripple Keeps Making Questionable MovesMt. Gox is one of the most notorious platforms in cryptocurrency history. The company lost more than $400 million USD in BTC units in...

It looks like some people (or entities) can change their minds after all. Despite a mixed relationship with cryptocurrency in the past, the People’s Bank of China (PBC) appears to finally be easing up to it. Is China Becoming “Friendlier?”As China’s central bank, the financial institution is looking to release its own digital currency in the future. This is not the same digital currency that China had initially announced weeks ago as a means of combating Libra. This would be an entirely...

It appears Libra doesn’t have that many fans. The new digital currency from Facebook is stemming controversy and dislike everywhere it goes, and now the European Central Bank (ECB) is taking what it deems to be necessary action by building its own national digital coin as a means of competing with it. Libra Just Can’t Find FriendsThis isn’t the first time a country (or in this case, continent) has emerged with a new digital currency to fight Libra’s alleged attacks. The first is China, who...

Photo: ShutterstockIt might come as a surprise to you that the Token Offering market is just a shell of its former self. Laden with all kinds of hurdles, from the regulatory front to the technological front. Only 69 token sales took place during the month of August, a staggering 81% reduction on a YOY basis, according to Blockchain and Crypto report August 2019. Photo: InWaraBut first, what actually caused the “crypto winter”?In 2017, Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) were gaining popularity as...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 706. Heute spreche ich mit Christoph Bergmann von Bitcoinblog.de über spannende Bitcoin Themen, wie Mining, Skalierung, Adoption, Lightning, BCH, BSV uvm. 1.) Bitcoinblog.dehttp://www.bitcoinblog.de Top 10 Kryptowährungen am 14.09.19 um 09:00Uhr Sonnige GrüsseDennis “Bitcoin-Informant” Koray

Wenn es um Cryptocoins mit Fokus auf Anonymität geht, sind die großen Börsen zaghaft. Dash ist einer dieser Coins und war zum Höchststand seines Kurses sogar innerhalb der Top 5 aller Cryptocoins nach Marktkapitalisierung zu finden. Coinbase Pro nahm den Coin nun endlich ins Angebot auf.Crypto News: Coinbase Pro fügt Dash hinzuAllerdings hat die Börse einige Features von Dash eingeschränkt und damit der Anonymität einen kleinen Dämpfer verpasst. Dash kann optional komplett anonym transferiert...

Who would have ever guessed that music and the blockchain could go so well together? Warner Music Group, the company behind major music stars like Cardi B and Ed Sheeran, has invested more than $11 million in Dapper Labs. Warner Music and Dapper Labs: A Perfect Match?Warner Music first became interested in the company following its introduction of Crypto Kitties in 2017, a popular cryptocurrency-based game that allows players to “breed” digital cats. Warner senior vice president Jeff...

Leading fin-tech entrepreneur thinks China's state-backed cryptocurrency could spearhead global adoption of the yuan as a reserve asset. | Image: Shutterstock Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire believes that China's developing "cryptocurrency" could propel the yuan to worldwide renown as a global reserve currency. Jeremy Allaire on the potential of China's nascent CBDC. |...

Facebook’s Libra, even with all the regulatory hurdles it currently faces, is still going strong and forging ahead with its plans to launch the digital currency next year. A while back, Libra Exec David Marcus, after enduring several hours of questioning from the United States Congress, promised that the Libra will not be launched until all regulatory concerns have been met and satisfied. The head of the Libra Association, the outfit in charge of the Libra project, has iterated this, given a...