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Unocoin – a cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service in India – is allowing users to purchase goods and services through their wallets using bitcoin. Unocoin Users Push BTC Closer to Its Ultimate Goal The process is working a little differently than if one were to simply pay with cash. Rather than utilizing bitcoin directly to purchase everyday items, customers can instead utilize bitcoin to purchase vouchers, which can then be used for whatever products the...

Coinbase – one of the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges – has acquired a Dallas, Texas-based crypto startup known as Zabo. Coinbase Gets Its Hands On Zabo Zabo is a relatively new firm, with its seed funding round occurring just last year in 2020. At that time, the company managed to raise more than $2.5 million thanks to the leadership of financial enterprises like Austin’s Moonshots Capital. It was one of the firm’s first blockchain-based...

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,...

Kraken – a popular cryptocurrency exchange based in San Francisco, CA – has partnered with the University of Wyoming to ensure all future tech students get the resources they need for positions in the growing crypto space. Kraken and Wyoming Continue Their Working Relationship Kraken says it will offer scholarship support to students pursuing PhDs at the university. It will also work with college professors to create programs for students in the K through 12 range that...

Leading digital currency exchange Binance – arguably the biggest cryptocurrency trading platform in the world – is taking heavy action against unverified users. Binance Moves Towards Limiting Unverified Customers In a series of tweets, Changpeng Zhao – the company’s CEO – announced that Binance would be limiting how much money customers can remove or withdraw from their accounts daily, granted they have not gone through the verification process with the exchange. Zhao...

Digital currency provider Fire Blocks – a startup based in New York – has managed to raise more than $300 million in new funds, thereby bringing its overall valuation beyond the $2 billion mark in just under half a year. Fire Blocks Gets Its Hands On a Lot of Money Fire Blocks came about three years ago in 2018. Just last February, the company managed to secure approximately $133 million for itself through a Series C funding round. During that period, the company’s...

South Korea is cracking down on cryptocurrency exchange activity within its borders. South Korea Is Taking a Stance South Korea, at one time, accounted for more than one quarter of the world’s bitcoin and crypto transactions, though it appears the country’s presence within the digital currency space has died down a bit over the last three years. Nevertheless, the nation is still looking to purge all foreign digital currency exchanges from its terrain as a means of ending...

Not too long ago, Jackson Palmer – the co-creator of the popular meme currency Dogecoin – issued a series of attacks on the cryptocurrency space, calling it inherently “right wing” and an arena that has allowed a bunch of people to build their wealth through “tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight and artificially enforced scarcity.” It looks like Brian Armstrong – the CEO of Coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world – is not taking these words...

Massachusetts’ democratic senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest politician to express her disapproval and distrust for cryptocurrency exchanges. In a recent letter, she asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to examine the prospects surrounding crypto exchanges and do an analysis regarding the harm and risks they potentially pose to consumers. Elizabeth Warren Isn’t Crazy About Crypto Exchanges Crypto exchanges have often taken guff for their lack of...

Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency space have fallen hard in recent weeks, but according to Oppenheimer analyst Owen Lau, these moves should not be affecting Coinbase stock, and the exchange’s public listing does not deserve to get swept under the bus. Coinbase Should Not Be Associated with BTC’s Drops Coinbase made its public debut on the Nasdaq in mid-April. At first, things started out great. Stock shares in the exchange began at more than $300 each, while bitcoin...