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Lionel Messi, the famed soccer player, has become the latest athlete to accept at least part of his salary in cryptocurrency. Messi Will Be Paid in PSG Tokens Messi has signed a two-year contract to join the French team Paris Saint-German. There is also a clause that could potentially see his contract expanded by an additional 12 months. It is estimated that he will garner as much as $25-$35 million by being one of the team’s new kickers. But the real clincher behind...

Walmart hat zum Ende der vergangenen Woche eine Stellenausschreibung auf LinkedIn veröffentlicht. Dort wird nach einem „Digital Currency And Cryptocurrency Product Lead“ gesucht. Bereitet Walmart hier seinen Einstieg in den Cryptomarkt vor? Crypto News: Walmart bereitet Einstieg in Cryptomarkt vorIn der Stellenbeschreibung wird nach einem Experten gesucht, der unter anderem folgende Fähigkeiten mitbringt:Own and drive the Digital Currency strategy for WalmartNachdem Amazon zuletzt ebenfalls...

Seit dem 20. Juli ist der Kurs von Dogecoin um fast 100% gestiegen. Der Hashtag #DogeCoinTo1Dollar und eine grosse Anzahl an Memes soll nun helfen, den DOGE-Kurs auf 1 US-Dollar zu hebeln. Ob dies gelingt? Die Memecoin Dogecoin ist wieder gefragt. In den letzten 30 Tagen ist der DOGE-Kurs um fast 100% gestiegen. Klar, einerseits profitierte Dogecoin vom neu entflammten Bitcoin Hype. Dennoch hat DOGE einiges stärker zugelegt, als Bitcoin....

Blockchain’s moon race is on as the ecosystem grapples with developing scalability solutions to meet demand without sacrificing security or decentralization – the classic blockchain trilemma. The rapid growth in decentralized finance, NFTs, and gaming has seen adoption congest the Ethereum network, in particular, leading to bottlenecks and high transaction fees given its capacity for processing only a few transactions per second, rendering many dApps usable at times....

Brett Harrison – the president of FTX.US, an affiliate of FTX – says that his exchange is looking to offer crypto derivative trading within 12 months. FTX.US Sees Spot Trading in Its Future FTX has become the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange after Binance. FTX.US, which is based in California, presently has limited options available to crypto traders when compared with its parent, as at the time of writing, the firm can only provide spot in compliance with...

CryptoPotato got the chance to interview the popular investor Kevin O’Leary, also known as Mr. Wonderful, from his performance on Shark Tank, where he’s one of the sharks. O’Leary talks about some important considerations for our industry, such as portfolio diversification, ESG concerns, institutional involvement (and why it’s not there yet), and some of his most recent investments, such as WonderFi. We’re also joined by Ben Samaroo, founder at WonderFi, who talks about the...

Alex Jones – a far-right media personality and the man behind Infowars – has lost a lot of bitcoins. Alex Jones Loses A Lot of BTC In a recent podcast episode, Jones told his guests that he had accidentally lost a laptop gifted to him by his friend Max Keiser, a hardcore cryptocurrency advocate. This laptop contained as many as 10,000 bitcoin units on it, and he had gotten the laptop about ten years prior when bitcoin was trading for just a few cents at most. Today,...

At 19 years old, Stefan Qin – a self-proclaimed math prodigy – thought it would be a great idea to leave his university studies in Australia and relocate to New York to start two cryptocurrency hedge funds. Now, at 24, he has pled guilty to a scam that could land him a 20-year jail sentence. Stefan Qin Pleads Guilty Qin is the man behind Virgil Sigma and VQR, two cryptocurrency-based hedge funds. He told clients that he had developed algorithms that allowed him to...

XRP/USD – XRP Rolls Over From $1.36 Resistance Key Support Levels: $1.19, $1.10, $1.00.Key Resistance Levels: $1.27, $1.36, $1.49. XRP has been on an impressive run since breaking the bullish flag pattern at the start of August. By the end of last week, it had already hit the $1 level. On Friday, it surged further beyond $1 as it broke the Feb 2018 highs at $1.25 on Saturday and reached as high as $1.36 (1.618 Fib Extension) yesterday. It has since rolled over from this...

The US State Department (DOS) is trying to halt cybercrime in the country with a new initiative for the Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program. Consequently, it will offer up to $10 million in cryptocurrencies to anyone who can provide information leading to the identification of state-backed hackers. DOS Targeting Black Hat Attendants Last week, hackers and cybersecurity experts attended the famous cyber conference Black Hat Briefings. The State Department promoted the program...