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Die europäische Payment-Lösung Bluecode führt ihren Wachstumskurs konsequent weiter und ernennt Anton Stadelmann zum neuen CEO. Christian Pirkner bleibt Executive Chairman des Verwaltungsrats und treibt gleichzeitig als Chairman der European Mobile Payment Systems Association (EMPSA) die europäische Payment- Interoperabilität voran. Bluecode wächst rasant. In den letzten Monaten sind weitere Banken und Händler Bluecode Partner geworden. Jetzt holt...

BXM Operations’, a subsidiary founded by BitMEX CEO Alexander Höptner and its CFO Stephan Lutz, failed to acquire the Munich private bank, Bankhaus von der Heydt. Both parties agreed to cancel the planned deal, German media reported on Thursday. The acquisition was greenlighted by German regulator BaFIN back in January when BXM Operations signed a purchase agreement with Dietrich von Boetticher, the bank’s current owner. A BitMEX spokesperson told the German media that “the...

nCore Bank CEO Mark Dambacher und GenTwo CEO Philippe Naegeli (v.l.n.r) lancieren den ersten digitalen Vermögenswert der Schweiz, der einen Schweizer Blue Chip repräsentiert. Heute lancieren InCore Bank und GenTwo Digital einen Tokenized Tracker. Mit diesem Tracker auf Aktien der Partners Group (SWX: PGHN) wird es damit erstmals möglich, in einen digitalen Vermögenswert zu investieren, der einen Schweizer Blue Chip repräsentiert. Der Token basiert...

The central bank of Jamaica doubled down on its plans to design a digital version of its national currency. The institution claimed that the financial product will benefit a considerable percentage of the residents who do not have access to basic monetary services. Jamaica’s CBDC to Help the Locals Jamaica is yet another nation that pursues the launch of a central bank digital currency. In February this year, the central bank announced that everything was ready for the...

The region of Calgary, Canada is doing all it can to attract cryptocurrency businesses. Calgary Tries to Rebrand Itself as a Crypto Haven Crypto is often known as the “Wild West” of the financial world, and to be fair, regions like Canada – given its history with Quadriga CX and similar ventures – doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to digital currency ventures. Thus, it looks like the country is trying to reshape its reputation and bring its ever-growing...

The cryptocurrency-focused financial services company led by Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital Holdings – announced it will acquire the digital asset custodian BitGo between now and October 2022. Initially, the move was planned for the first quarter of the year. Delaying the Acquisition In May last year, Galaxy Digital agreed to purchase BitGo for approximately $1.2 billion. According to the agreement, the latter’s shareholders were supposed to receive 33.8 million on newly...

It looks like Warren Buffett has gotten to another class-A investor about bitcoin. To be fair, the person in question – Joel Greenblatt – is a “student” of Buffett that has been molded by the veteran real estate mogul, but it’s always disappointing when someone is so against bitcoin and crypto. Joel Greenblatt Doesn’t Think BTC Has Value Joel Greenblatt said in a recent interview that he has never bought bitcoin. He does not own any units of the world’s number one...

Zilliqa – a scalability-focused DeFi blockchain – is seeing its cryptocurrency skyrocket leading up to the Metapolis launch this month. ZIL is up nearly 5X over the last two weeks, rising from $0.041 to $0.2 as of Friday. Zillqa leverages a layer 2 scaling solution known as “sharding”, which partitions a blockchain network into “shards” to spread out transaction workload. This method is currently being tested by Ethereum. Meanwhile, Metapolis is a metaverse-as-a-service...

Joe Biden – despite being a perpetual screw up since his first day in the White House (or the White House studio set) – has managed to grease the wheels somewhat with crypto analysts and traders in the United States after he issued an executive order a few weeks ago calling for American government agencies and officials to look at regulating crypto and analyzing its risks. Joe Biden Is Still Getting Things Wrong The executive order also opened the door to a digital...

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] Dubai, UAE – 31/03/22 – HeadStarter has kicked off the HeadStarter Launchpad program, designed to accelerate the development of transformative projects running on the Hedera public distributed ledger. Hedera’s “Strategic and tactical marketing plan for 2022” is focusing on galvanizing developers, entrepreneurs & institutions to build dApps on top of their DLT platform and features empowering hackathons, incentivized participation,...