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Janet Yellen – Treasury Secretary of the United States – recently delivered her first speech solely dedicated to cryptocurrencies. While discussing the risks and benefits of crypto and CBDCs, the secretary listed five historical lessons she’ll be following as she regulates the space. A More Balanced Tone The speech was delivered before American University’s Kogod School of Business Center for Innovation on Thursday. Her words reflect significant evolution in how the Treasury...

Cornerstone Global Management Inc. – a company that transfers payroll into cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin and allows employees to get paid in digital assets – has acquired a firm known as Pay Drop, which provides financial and payment services to freelance workers and small businesses. Cornerstone Global and Pay Drop Join Hands for Crypto’s Sake Charlie Lee – the founder of Litecoin – helped to coordinate the acquisition. He stated in an...

The autonomous region of Portugal – Madeira – and Prospera – a jurisdiction on Honduras’ Roatán island – will reportedly adopt bitcoin as an official payment method inside their borders. Residents from both territories won’t have to pay capital gains tax when buying or selling the primary cryptocurrency. Following El Salvador’s Path Bitcoin’s global popularity and development received a significant boost last year when El Salvador became the first country to embrace the asset...

Block, formerly named Square, and Blockstream team up to mine bitcoin off Tesla-supported solar power in Texas, as reported by CNBC. Bitcoin mining is seen as an activity that incentivizes the monetization of renewable power production. Tesla’s 3.8 megawatts solar PV array, along with 12 megawatt-hours Megapack, will power the bitcoin mining facility located in Western Texas. Block stated that “100% solar-powered bitcoin mining project with Blockstream, using solar and...

Following its recent invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been cut out of many of the world’s dealings and financial platforms. The nation has decided to take matters into its own hands and is now playing by its own rules, ultimately releasing a digital currency all its own called Sbercoin. Russia Is Pulling Back the Curtain on Sbercoin February saw Russia allegedly invading Ukraine following reports that it had over 150,000 troops stationed along its border. The move has...

Kraken’s CEO decided to close the company’s headquarters in San Francisco after blaming the city for being incapable of ensuring public safety. San Francisco Is not Safe Jesse Powell, the CEO of Kraken, released a statement that the company has closed the headquarters office located in San Francisco “after numerous employees were attacked, harassed, and robbed on their way to and from the office.” The statement first appeared on the Internet via a tweet by Richie Greenberg, a...

The past week was filled with serious volatility, but unfortunately, a lot of it was to the downside. Bitcoin is currently trading at around $43,800, down 3.6% during the week. It’s interesting to note that this happens as the biggest BTC-focused event is currently taking place in Miami – Bitcoin 2022. The first week of April wasn’t very productive across the board. For BTC, the price was sitting at around $46,000 this time last week, and it was looking primed to test $47K....

[PRESS RELEASE – Tel Aviv, Israel, 5th April 2022] The creators of the popular WebComic “One of Those Days” are venturing into the world of non-fungible tokens. The XOXO collection will launch shortly and aims to break the rules of how NFT collections have worked until today. The popular WebComic “One of Those Days” is created by Maya and Yehuda Devir. In their comics, the married couple portrays their everyday life in a humorous and honest way, with NO FILTERS, since they...

Bitcoin cash price started a fresh decline from the $385 resistance against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below the $350 zone and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break below a major bullish trend line with support near $370 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair remains at a risk of a downside break below the $325 support zone in the near term. Bitcoin cash price is struggling below $350 against the US...

With blockchain-enabled games gaining popularity lately, we have been trying to push the envelope and come up with something original. We combined our interest in NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens), anime art and gaming into one. This was how we came up with Idol Idol. Idol Idol is an NFT-based Anime Dating Simulation game. It is a new spin on an old genre. Slated to launch in Q2 2022, the story revolves around the protagonist (the player), who is in the final year of high...