Paxos, a New York-based blockchain infrastructure firm, announced on Tuesday that it has changed the name of its stablecoin from “Paxos Standard’ to “Pax Dollar,” and that [...]
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24 August 2021 12:01
In November 2020, PayPal announced that all account holders in the U.S. would be able to buy and sell cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin through its platform. The news [...]
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24 August 2021 11:30
A selection of companies operating in the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry—as well as crypto exchange Kraken—are donating to the open-source development teams working on Ethereum’s technical upgrades [...]
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24 August 2021 11:10
The British public doesn’t believe in central bank digital currencies, according to a survey of 2,500 UK adults carried out for POLITICO by Redfield & Wilton Strategies [...]
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24 August 2021 10:51
Dawn DeBerry Stump, Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has addressed a widespread “misunderstanding about U.S. regulatory delineations” which suggests that the agency is responsible [...]
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24 August 2021 10:14
The price of XTZ, the token underpinning the Tezos blockchain, has soared by 11.1% in the past 24 hours, hitting a 12-week high. According to CoinGecko, XTZ [...]
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24 August 2021 09:55
A recent resurgence in NFT market activity has seen projects like CryptoPunks, Bored Ape Yacht Club, and crypto game Axie Infinity dominate much of the conversation. But [...]
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23 August 2021 22:58
In less than a week, Bitcoin rose in price from $44,000 to $50,000, a 14% increase. So, you’d expect the network to be buzzing with lots of [...]
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23 August 2021 22:51
On Friday, Arizona Iced Tea announced that it purchased an NFT in the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club collection—a series of 10,000 randomly-generated profile pictures that has [...]
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23 August 2021 19:40
Iran will lift its four-month ban on cryptocurrency mining in September, according to a report from the Iranian Students’ News Agency that was subsequently picked up by [...]
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23 August 2021 18:57
Newsletter platform Substack today announced it will accept Bitcoin payments using the Lightning Network. San Francisco-based Substack allows writers to set up subscription publications. People use it to [...]
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23 August 2021 17:19
When financial services giant Visa announced this morning that it bought a CryptoPunks NFT for nearly 50 ETH (about $150,000 at the time of purchase), the news [...]
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23 August 2021 16:00
