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21 Oct 2020 1 minute read 17 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
According to a press release published on October 21, UK-based company Mode Global Holdings has invested 10% of its cash reserves into Bitcoin, mirroring moves made by other companies in recent months. Mode Global Holdings invested 10% of its cash r...
21 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Mr. Sloth
Reuters released a press statement from PayPal which confirms, that PayPal customers will be able to shop with crypto currencies at 26 million merchants. This is a very big step for the adoption. It seems like this feature will be first rolled out in...
21 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor, in an interview with Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough on October 20, criticised the prevailing data on Bitcoin and the market. Saylor spoke of inflated volumes, though he did see a silver lining in the status quo. Held...
17 Oct 2020 1 minute read 6 comments TheDesertLynx
Cryptocurrency has been around for over 10 years since Bitcoin's birth in 2009. But it still hasn't reached anything resembling mainstream adoption. Why? I explore two key reasons holding up the blockchain revolution. Donate - Sponsors Please leave a...
14 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Asset management firm Stone Ridge had revealed that it had been investing Bitcoin under a subsidiary company since 2017, and now holds $115 million in the asset. In 2017, Stone Ridge subsidiary New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) raised $50 mi...
8 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments MoneyLearn
South Korea's central bank, the Bank of Korea (BOK), has announced that it will launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot project next year in collaboration with major corporations and national banks. According to Seoul Shinmun and the Four...
7 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
A consortium of banks, including BNP Paribas, Citibank, HSBC, and Standard Chartered, launched the Contour trade finance platform on October 5. Contour is a blockchain-based trade finance platform that digitizes processes across a variety of assets...
6 Oct 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Abhimanyu Krishnan
Stellar CEO Denelle Dixon will be one of four panellists discussing cross-border payments at an International Monetary Fund (IMF) conference that will take place on October 19. Dixon will discuss the current pain points of cross-border payments and...
5 Oct 2020 1 minute read 7 comments Allen Walters
Avosvotes has developed an application to enable digital voting for local authorities. First identities are manually verified and secured in digital form. After that, votes can be stored on blockchain, where they can be verified by the voter. This wa...
1 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Japan’s SBI group will pay its eSports team in XRP, according to an official announcement made on September 30. The SBI e-Sports team signed a sponsorship contract with SBI VC Trade Co Team members will be given the option of being paid in fiat or X...
