Amazon’s Payments Acceptance & Experience team is hiring a digital currency and blockchain expert to develop the company’s digital currency and blockchain strategy and product roadmap, including a launch strategy. “We’re inspired by the innovation happening in the cryptocurrency space and are exploring what this could look like on Amazon,” the company’s spokesperson said. Amazon …
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After Barclays and Santander, UK Bank Natwest Blocks Payments to Binance
A major high street bank in the U.K., Natwest, has blocked payments to crypto exchange Binance. Natwest’s decision came after two other major British banks — Barclays and Santander — made a similar move to block fund transfers to Binance. The banks acted in response to a warning on the cryptocurrency exchange by the U.K.’s …
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Coinbase hit by securities class action following $86 bn NASDAQ listing
Coinbase Inc., together with certain Coinbase directors and officers as well as venture capital firms that benefited from the company’s April 2021 direct offering, faces a securities class action lawsuit. Going public through the offering, Coinbase made 114,850,769 shares of its class A common stock available to the general public as its shares started trading …
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New York Town Bemoans Roadside ‘Littered’ With Bitcoin Miners — Officials Plan to Impose 90-Day Moratorium
A St. Lawrence county town located in New York near the Canadian border, Massena, is another region in the state that is having issues with bitcoin miners. According to recent reports from the local WWNY-TV news desk and Reuters, the Massena town supervisor is drafting new regulations for bitcoin mining operations. Officials From Town of …
Abkhazia Holds Talks With Russia to Ensure Electricity Supply for Crypto Miners
The government of Abkhazia is negotiating with Russia to solve a problem that led to a ban on cryptocurrency mining. The partially recognized republic in the South Caucasus is now planning to legalize the industry and source sufficient power supplies from its energy-rich northern neighbor. Abkhazia Wants to Create Conditions for Cryptocurrency Mining The autonomous …
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Central Bank of Colombia Announces First Blockchain Bond Pilot Program
The Central Bank of Colombia has announced its involvement in the first blockchain bond pilot program in the country, with the participation of the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) and Davivienda, a private commercial bank. The proof of concept will use the Lacchain blockchain platform developed by the IDB, which will handle the operative part of …
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Ex-fund manager pegs Bitcoin at $2 million by 2031. But that’s a $45 trillion market cap
Greg Foss, the Executive Director of Validus Power Corp, which uses flare gas to mine Bitcoin, lays out the case for a $2 million BTC price. Although sky-high price predictions are nothing new, Foss’s forecast is up there among the highest. Having said that, what is the reasoning behind his prognosis? [embedded content] Oil and …
Ripple transfers 60 million XRP even as US SEC lawsuit crawls on
To bolster its fair notice defence in a lawsuit filed by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), Ripple (XRP) claims two of their sitting Commissioners have spoken out about the lack of clarity on how securities laws apply to crypto. Meanwhile, Ripple and Binance got caught on the radar as 110 million XRP tokens worth roughly …
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64% of Adults from 10 Different Countries Would Use a Central Bank Digital Currency: Report
As central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) advance in testing, a number of countries have taken the lead in an effort to create a CBDC. The enterprise blockchain firm Guardtime recently conducted a survey that shows adults from ten different countries would likely use a CBDC. Nearly two out of three respondents said they would likely …
Chinese Miners Pivot to Alternative Currencies to Keep Operating
The Chinese mining crackdown forced many miners to stop their operations and relocate. But another group of miners is planning to pivot to new, more efficient mining schemes to keep operating in the country. Lesser-known tokens and proof-of-stake-based systems are now in the sights of these miners as ways to continue their work away from …
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Report: Nigeria to Start Piloting Digital Currency in October
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reportedly set October 1 as the commencement date for the trial phase of its digital currency project. Dubbed project Giant, this digital currency project, or the “e-naira,” is expected to use the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain. CBDC Comes to Life The revelation of the launch date for Nigeria’s central …
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Dogecoin, Musk, and $60 million NFT froth: Why Ruffer sold $1bn in Bitcoin
Ruffer Investment Company Limited invested roughly $600 million in Bitcoin (BTC) in November 2020 but sold its exposure in April, while the crypto was still pumping and its price fluctuated between $50,000 and $65,000, profiting more than $1 billion in about five months. According to Ruffer’s year-end review for the 12 months ending June 30, …
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French Central Bank Conducts Fifth Experiment on Tunisia CBDC
The French central bank, Banque de France (BOF), recently carried out its fifth experiment on the Central Bank of Tunisia (CBT)’s central bank digital currency (CBDC). According to a statement from BOF, the latest experiment is part of the banks’ joint effort to create conditions that are “conducive to a better inclusion of the Tunisian …
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Binance Is Hunting for a New CEO — Exchange’s US Venture ‘Looks at Potential IPO Route’
Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has explained in a recent interview that the company is looking to launch a U.S.-based initial public offering (IPO) in the future. The crypto exchange has been stuck in regulatory crosshairs during the last few weeks and has had issues with payment providers. CZ also noted during his interview that …
Reddit Chooses to Leverage Arbitrum’s Layer-2 Tech With Community Point ETH-Based Tokens
On July 22, developers working on the platform Reddit, the social news discussion aggregation forum, revealed that the team was scaling Reddit’s community points program with the Ethereum Layer-2 solution Arbitrum. Currently, Reddit developers are testing the community point tokens on top of the Rinkeby testnet and will migrate to the Ethereum mainnet after testing …