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Bakkt Holdings recently announced a partnership with Quiznos to launch the pilot for their new Bitcoin payment system. This will allow Bakkt users to purchase food at some Quiznos locations in Denver using the digital asset. Quiznos: Buy a Sandwich With Bitcoin Bakkt users will be able to utilize the pilot in certain Quiznos stores across Denver starting this month. This includes the high-traffic Denver airport location. Chief Revenue Officer at Bakkt, Sheela Zemlin, expanded...

Bitcoin has been suffering heavily as of late. Yes, the currency has managed to touch $40,000 once or twice during the past week, but the asset is still considerably lower than where it was in April of this year – a time that saw the world’s number one digital currency hit a new high of roughly $64,000 per unit. Despite the gloom and doom surrounding BTC, MicroStrategy and its CEO Michael Saylor have no interest in turning their backs on the asset and have announced more...

The Ethereum blockchain is scheduled to undergo the London hard fork, and several exchanges are taking precautions to ensure users’ funds remain secured once the hard fork is successfully deployed.  At block height 12,965,000, estimated to take place tomorrow (August 8th, 2021), Ethereum was scheduled to undergo the hard fork, and two scenarios are likely to occur; either the chain is split, and there’s a competing network with a new token or no new token is created, and most...

Miami mayor Francis Suarez has long been a bitcoin and cryptocurrency fan. He has proposed paying city workers in the world’s largest digital currency by market cap, and he has also tried to entice China’s exiting bitcoin miners to come to his region to start businesses and take advantage of the area’s many tax benefits. Miami Is Heading Deeper Into Crypto Territory However, now he’s taking his affection for digital currency to the next level. In a recent press release,...

A Russian court ordered Sberbank to restore access for a customer involved in Bitcoin trading. The authorities added that the largest bank in Russia should not have blocked the account as the client had provided all the necessary information about his cryptocurrency operations. Sberbank Had No Right to Ban The Account The Sverdlovsk Regional Court in Yekaterinburg ordered Sberbank, also referred to as Sber, to unblock account services to a client who has been dealing with...

Brian Brooks is currently the CEO of Binance.US, but prior to that, he served in government and in the standard financial space. Brian Brooks Has Carved Out a Serious Crypto Career Before his position with the exchange, Brooks was the acting comptroller of the Currency at the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). He has also worked with Coinbase. In a recent interview, Brooks discussed what it was that drew him to the crypto market. He says: For me,...

The Founder and CEO of FTX – Sam Bankman-Fried – revealed that the increased number of cryptocurrency regulations forces him to spend around five hours a day dealing with it. Furthermore, he asserted that the exchange would keep supporting Tether (USDT) despite the controversy. ‘We Have to Stay on Top’ During a recent interview for CNBC, the 29-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried said that he has to spend a considerable part of his day handling cryptocurrency regulatory measures and...

During an interview with Bloomberg, Gensler admitted that he is intrigued by the cryptocurrency space, but that wouldn’t deter him from protecting US investors via enhanced regulations on the market. Being deeply familiar with the blockchain space, as he taught DLT classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Gensler was expected to have a straightforward approach when it comes down to regulating the industry when he took charge at the SEC earlier this year. So...

BNB/USD – BNB Battles To Hold 200-day MA Support Key Support Levels: $260, $255, $225.Key Resistance Levels: $300, $320, $330. Binance coin has remained relatively stagnant over the past month, being unable to overcome the $340 resistance. The cryptocurrency dipped as low as $255 in July, where it met support at a .886 Fib. It rebounded from there and started to slowly grind higher to break the 200-day MA and reach the July resistance by the end of the month. In August, BNB...

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] Rocket Launchpad is launching a Tezos-based IDO platform, allowing users to invest in the latest Tezos-based projects. 3rd August 2021, Tortola, British Virgin Islands – Recently, the Tezos ecosystem has seen several high-profile partnerships, including collaborations with McLaren and Red Bull Racing. Since its launch, the number of projects currently using Tezos has grown to a total of 135. As its popularity continues to rise, a need...