BLACKROCK: SET TO TRADE-IN BITCOIN FUTURES

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•      The global investment giant had already permitted two of its funds to trade in BTC

•      The firm’s bitcoin futures on CME appreciated

BlackRock, the investment giant has permitted ...

2 BILLS PASSED IN KENTUCKY TO ATTRACT CRYPTO MINERS

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•     Each bill seeks to keep the crypto miners interested and retained

•     The miners are tempted by tax incentives and sales tax breaks

In its drive to become an example of emerging industries for the ...

CFTC ALLEGES COINBASE ENGAGED IN SELF TRADING; THE EXCHANGE SETTLES ALLEGATIONS FOR $ 6.5M

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• Coinbase allegedly indulged in self-trading to inflate its sales numbers on its app between 2015 -2018

• The exchange intends to go public

The US Commodity Futures Trading Committee has alleged that Coinbase had in...

XRP WILL NOT BE A PART OF SEC’S PROCEEDINGS AGAINST RIPPLE AS INTERVENORS

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• XRP holders wanted to be part of the proceedings to be able to defend their interests
• The judge denies the request

XRP holders wanted to be part of the SEC proceedings against Ripple. A motion requesting the same was filed on March 14 2021...

PAYMENT GATEWAY, NOWPAYMENTS INTRODUCE MASS PAYMENT SOLUTION

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•          NOWPayments can convert currencies

•          Mass Payment can make payments to an unlimited number of people simultaneously

Businesses in vario...

IT IS UNOFFICIAL YET BUT INDIA IS SET TO DECLARE CRYPTO ILLEGAL

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•       The news has been broken by a senior government official

•       This has dashed hopes of keeping the domain alive in India

The Indian cryptocurrency scenario has been a dilemma...

MOTHERS IN SOUTH KOREAN ARE ACTIVELY INVESTING IN BTC

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•             The investor demographics have changed drastically since 2017

•             Women investing in BTC now are between the ag...

MicroStrategy DOES IT AGAIN; BUYS ANOTHER BATCH OF BTC WORTH $10 MILLION

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•          MicroStrategy does not seem to slow down its BTC buying spree

•          The firm now nears the 100K BTC mark

Bitcoin proponent, Michael Saylor ...

BTC DONATION FOR CAPE COD HEALTHCARE, MASSACHUSETTS

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•          The hospital had to get the infrastructure set up to accept the BTC payment

•          This opens new avenues for donations to be made

Massachus...

SEC DE-LISTS LONG BLOCKCHAIN Corp.

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•             The form had misled investors in the past too

•             SEC delisted it

•     ...

GERMAN DEUTSCHE BANK TOO FORAYS INTO THE CRYPTO DOMAIN

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•             Deutsche Bank wants to facilitate a digital asset custody platform

•             The bank’s interest was mentioned ...

REGULATORS NEED TO SPEED UP ON DIGITAL CURRENCIES

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• Central banks are under pressure that Facebook’s Libra could reduce the control over money across the globe.
• G20 finance ministers stated that risks need to be evaluated before the global stablecoins start operation.
• The s...

OKEx’s Chief Operating Officer resigns to initiate his own blockchain consultancy firm BitWork

As per the announcement made on Tuesday, Andy Cheung, the Chief Operating Officer of OKEx, has resigned from the firm in order to start his own blockchain consultancy firm in Hong Kong ‘BitWork’. Cheung has left the Asian cryptocurrency exchange.

The aim of Cheung is to help...

LocalEthereum Focuses under LocalCryptos Banner

There is a growing demand for methods to trade prime cryptocurrencies in an exceedingly peer-to-peer fashion.

A new platform to trade cryptocurrencies in an exceedingly peer-to-peer fashion. referred to as LocalCryptos, it'll formally replace LocalEthereum and concentrate on extra c...

National digital currencies are inevitable

A blockchain-based digital currency can help in maintaining the US dollar's dominance in an era of emerging digital currencies: former CFTC chairman Christopher Giancarlo, and former director of the CFTC's experimental Lab CFTC initiative Daniel Gorfine have suggested.

"Dol...

Facebook’s currency project to be rejected?

As the world moves towards a more digitized finance and banking network we all are facing a choice to either adopt Blockchain or hang in the conventional money chains that could rupture down any time and give us a blow straight to the head.

In a blow to the social media giant, the repor...

Blockchain to enter forex realm

As the forex trade is on the rise there is a new trend that is going to change the forex landscape forever and the trade of forex will never be the same. As we all know we are moving towards a digital revolution in our future which has the inclusion of new tech like the Blockchain.

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