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[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] Today, Las Vegas-based payment app banq, launched the ability to invest in Bitcoin and Ethereum from multiple accounts under one platform. Users can create as many sub-accounts as they need for business or personal use and buy and sell crypto from of any or all of them. This solution allows users to keep crypto investments separate for different goals, different people, and different entities. In particular, one could open an account...

Philips will be auctioning a world-famous artwork called “Laugh Now Panel A” created by the anonymous street artist Banksy. Jonathan Crockett – Asia Chairman at the company – announced that BTC or ETH would also be accepted as a means of payment on the auction. Philips Enters the Crypto Community In a recent Bloomberg interview, Jonathan Crockett highlighted that Philips would accept the largest cryptocurrencies – bitcoin and ether – to purchase Banksy’s ”Laugh Now Panel A”....

Katherine McNamara has gone from being a television star to a cryptocurrency fan. Katherine McNamara Is Getting Into NFTs McNamara starred as the Black Canary superhero throughout the eight-year run of the CW Network’s popular television program “Arrow” and in many of the show’s spinoffs. At one point, the CW was looking to potentially film an all-female version of “Green Arrow” that would have starred McNamara, though it looks like this project will not be coming to...

Google has lifted its ban on cryptocurrency exchanges and digital wallets, prohibiting them from using Google’s advertisement service, a policy that lasted almost three years. According to the document, Google will update its Financial products and services policy in August to further clarify cryptocurrency exchanges about all the requirements needed to allow advertisement through the platform. Some of the requirements include being registered with the FinCEN (Financial...

Jeff Currie – the global head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs – believes that the idea of bitcoin serving as the digital form of gold is a little misguided. In fact, he claims bitcoin is more of an alternative to copper. Jeff Currie Thinks the Idea of BTC as Digital Gold Is a Little Off For many years, we have heard the argument that bitcoin is “digital gold.” That it is a hedge tool and a store of wealth like gold is and can potentially protect one’s wealth...

According to recent data, the amount of ETH locked in the ETH 2.0 deposit contract has reached over five million, marking a major event for the Etherum community. Data from Dune Analytics shows 5,223,042 ETH —$14 billion at press time— has been sent to the ETH 2.0 contract. The lock-up amount is nearly 1,000% of the original 524,000 ETH threshold, which was the minimum needed to move forward with the staking process. There are currently 27,132 “unique depositors,” and 152,000...

Changpeng Zhao – the CEO of Binance, arguably the largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume – has called out Elon Musk over his alleged lack of willingness to accept bitcoin payments for Tesla-based goods and services. Elon Musk Has Attracted Some Backlash from Zhao It appears Zhao has issues with Musk’s recent words regarding the mining process behind bitcoin. While Tesla was initially set to accept bitcoin as a method of payment, Musk...

The skyrocketing demand towards cryptocurrency assets has pushed the veteran US exchange Kraken to release a mobile application in the country. In another development coming from American exchanges, Coinbase integrated its debit card with Apple Pay and Google Pay. Kraken Mobile App Arrives in the US Founded almost a decade ago, Kraken is among the latest and most popular digital asset trading platforms. The firm’s latest expansion initiative comes through a mobile application...

Guggenheim Partners may invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency assets through its latest fund called Guggenheim Active Allocation Fund. A recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed the giant’s plans to receive the exposure through cash-settled derivatives instruments. CryptoPotato reported last year Guggenheim’s filing in which the behemoth sought SEC approval to allocate up to $500 million in bitcoin through its Macro Opportunities Fund. The large...

Electronic IDentification (eID) geht am DACH-Markt an den Start Electronic IDentification, der Spezialist und Marktführer für asynchrone Remote-Video-Identifikationslösungen richtet seinen Fokus auf den DACH-Raum und weitet seine Geschäftsaktivitäten nun dort aus. Der Markt für digitale Onboarding-, KYC- und Identitätsprüfungsdienste ist sehr ausgereift, dynamisch und im Finanzdienstleistungssektor besonders umworben. Allerdings sind die...