Crypto Adoption

Adoption of crypto and blockchain technologies.


I consider offering crypto for Christmas

23 Dec 2020 1 minute read 9 comments OshO

Christmas is coming and every year it's a pleasure to gather with the family !We hear story from the elders and spend time with the cousins sharing what was important during this past year. I've been wondering what was important to me during 2020.I k...

US CONgress Agrees on Stimulus, Happy Holidays Crypto

21 Dec 2020 1 minute read 4 comments Hamminy

Merry Christmas, everyone. The otherwise useless Congress of the United States has agreed to a $900 billion stimulus. The package will include stopgaps to every bearish indicator I could think of for a Christmas dump, so it looks like we're in the cl...

Elon Musk Supercharges the Bitcoin FOMO Wave

21 Dec 2020 2 minute read 45 comments Ben Wehrman

WELL THEN. As a crypto nerd by night and a Tesla employee by day, it was a doozy of a Sunday.   ~Let's review~   Act I. The storm began here, with papa Elon tossing out the B-word in his signature late night shitposting form. I'm not even going to t...

Institutional liquidity provider Woorton will increasingly provide liquidity on DEXter, the first Tezos-based DEX

11 Dec 2020 2 minute read 6 comments Allen Walters

Institutional liquidity provider Woorton announced during Paris Blockchain Week Summit that they will increasingly provide more liquidity on DEXter. DEXter is the first Decentralized Exchange (DEX) that has gone live on the Tezos blockchain. Since DE...

"The Blockchain Group" launches tokenization platform on Tezos, partner BNP Paribas facilitates the onboarding process of investors

10 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Allen Walters

Last week, The Blockchain Group announced their first STO: a $100 million investment fund for Logical Pictures. The partnership with BNP Paribas (The 8th largest bank in the world), was also announced last week. Today, The Blockchain Group announced...

Circle CEO Says Hundreds of Millions Will Use Crypto

9 Dec 2020 1 minute read 4 comments author_nan

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, speaking at the Singapore Fintech Festival, said that he expects third generation blockchains to encompass “hundreds of millions, if not billions of users.” Allaire made the remarks in a panel discussion on the topic of wh...

Standard Chartered to Launch a Crypto Custody Service for Institutional Investors

9 Dec 2020 1 minute read 2 comments author_nan

Standard Chartered has partnered with asset servicing firm Northern Lights to launch an institutional crypto custody service called Zodia Custody, according to a press release published on Dec. 9. The bank’s innovation and ventures arm, SC Ventures,...

Microstrategy Looking to Invest Another $400 Million in Bitcoin

8 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments author_nan

On Dec. 7, Microstrategy announced that it was planning to invest more into Bitcoin, this time up to $400 million in convertible bonds. The $400 million from the bonds will be used to buy Bitcoin “pending the identification of working capital needs”...

Pay for Gas and Electricity with BTC

8 Dec 2020 1 minute read 6 comments NOWPayments

What is mass adoption? It is so many things, but one of the cool aspects is the ability to perform the simplest and most mundane tasks using crypto. This is not just about buying stuff with bitcoin, How about paying bills with BTC? The emergence of b...

Spain’s Second Largest Bank to Offer Crypto Services in 2021

8 Dec 2020 1 minute read 3 comments author_nan

BBVA, Spain’s second largest bank, will begin offering cryptocurrency trading and custody services, according to a report from CoinDesk on Dec. 8. Sources told CoinDesk that the bank would offer crypto services out of Switzerland, where regulation f...