Rappi, one of the biggest delivery companies in Latam, has launched a pilot project with the objective of accepting cryptocurrencies as a payment method. Users will be able to buy Rappi credits with cryptocurrency to spend later on various services offered by the app. This functionality will only be available for users of these services …
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press release PRESS RELEASE. The global cryptocurrency market is experiencing an unprecedented boom. The market is at $2 trillion dollars and growing. MappedSwap is launching a promotional campaign from April 13th – May 12th. During that period they plan to give more than 800,000 MST in total as well as provide referral and staking rebates …
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A popular crypto trader thinks one smart contract platform could skyrocket to an all-time high in the next few weeks. The pseudonymous crypto analyst Altcoin Sherpa tells his 172,500 Twitter followers that Near Protocol’s native token NEAR has the chance to still drop in price before moving towards a new all-time high. Source: AltcoinSherpa/Twitter Near …
Paris Blockchain Week Summit (PBWS), a flagship European blockchain conference hosted at Palais Brongniart in Paris, started on Wednesday with an all-star cast. Fresh after announcing its French version, Cointelegraph has set up a team for the event to present the latest updates for the event in a real-time fashion. The first day of event …
Japanese gaming giant Sega is looking at integrating cloud technology and NFTs as part of its new “Super Game” project to connect different games to each other. The news has caused a predictable backlash from the crypto-skeptic section of the gaming community, with many people voicing their frustrations at the firm online this week. The …
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Virgil Griffith, a former Ethereum (ETH) developer has been sentenced to 63 months in prison and will pay a fine of $100,000 for attending a conference and assisting North Korea use blockchain technology in contravention of economic sanctions imposed by the United States. On Tuesday, April 12, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel of the Southern …
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Shiba Inu has outperformed the rest of the crypto market during the past 24 hours. The meme coin has rallied by double-digit gains because of a recent listing on the Robinhood trading app. At the time of writing, Shiba Inu was trading at $0.0000275 according to CoinGecko, having rallied by nearly 20%. Shiba Inu creates …
Pledge Fundraising Platform has introduced a system known as PledgeCrypto that will enable nonprofits to accept crypto donations in over 130 crypto assets. The accepted cryptocurrencies include Bitcoin (BTC), Tether (USDT), and Ethereum (ETH). This initiative will increase the adoption of cryptocurrencies as a payment method by many charity and non-governmental organizations. The Platform Will …
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USD Coin Issuer Circle Internet Financial Ltd has completed a $400 million funding round, with participants like Fidelity Management and Research LLC and BlackRock Inc participating. Other investors include Fin Capital and Wace LLP, according to the announcement. The funding and the caliber of companies that participated from the mainstream finance sector show the increasing …
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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has taken aim at Meta in a new interview, suggesting that its version of the Metaverse will simply repeat all of its past mistakes. In an interview with Politico, Haugen said: “They’ve made very grandiose promises about how there’s safety-by-design in the Metaverse. But if they don’t commit to transparency and …
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Ripple Labs has struck a blow against the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) case after the presiding judge made a ruling that one Ripple community lawyer calls “a very big win for Ripple.” The SEC filed suit in 2020 against Ripple and executives Brad Garlinghouse and Christian Larsen for selling unregistered securities. Presiding Judge Sarah …
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Crypto venture capital firms have been investing at unprecedented rates recently and Andreessen Horowitz is one of the industry’s leaders making huge returns on their investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) general partner Chris Dixon has topped the Forbes “Midas List” of the world’s best venture capital investors in 2022. Seldom does a crypto or Web3 funding …
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Popular crypto portfolio app, CoinStats, has secured $3.2 million to expand to become a DeFi aggregator. The investment saw Alex Pack’s Hack VC and Mike Dudas’s 6th Man Ventures back the app in its goal to become “the front page of DeFi.” The app has 1.2 million active users who will now be able to join …
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Bitcoin’s “scaling solution” for fast payments, the Lightning Network, is becoming increasingly popular around the globe. According to a fresh research report (pdf) by Arcane Research, Lightning payments are growing fast, even more so than what can be measured by looking at “imperfect” public metrics. To read the rest of this article, sign in or …
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Jamie Redman Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 5,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News …
