Bitcoin News (BTC)
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and worldwide payment system. It is the first decentralized digital currency, as the system works without a central bank or single administrator. This page is a summary of the latest bitcoin news.
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Kenyan Lawyers Contest Digital Land-Titling Initiative As Gov’t Eyes Blockchain Solution
The Kenyan government may eventually try to move its land deed registry onto a blockchain-based platform, but it recently encountered resistance as it attempted...
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Telegram’s Much-Anticipated Public ICO Jettisoned By Early Intervention Of Wealthy Investors
Telegram’s plans to launch a multi-billion-dollar initial coin offering for its Telegram Open Network project hit the skids upon news that early-accredited investments met...
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Maduro Announces That Venezuelan Petro Will Fund Youth Bank
Venezuela’s president announced that 20 million petros, the country’s cryptocurrency, would be used to fund a bank for youth projects.Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced...
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Square Generated $34M In Revenue From Bitcoin Sales But Only $223K In Profit
Bitcoin trading is supposed to be big business. That isn’t the case for Square.According to its 10-Q quarterly report filed with the US Securities...
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Federal Trade Commission To Host Training Workshop On Cryptocurrency Scams
Next month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will hold an event called “Decrypting Cryptocurrency Scams.” The workshop is free and open to the public.On...
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Intel Will Oversee Simulated Blockchain Pilot To Address Opioid Crisis
The tech giant will take the lead in testing an early pilot version of a system which, if developed further, could help track addictive...
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China Central Bank Creating ‘Anti-Bitcoin’ to Track Money Transfers
Since February China has had in place the world’s most restrictive policy regarding cryptocurrencies. No initial coin offerings allowed. Cryptocurrency exchanges shut down. Banks...
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VPE Bank First In Germany To Support Cryptocurrencies For Institutional Traders
Germany’s VPE bank, in a partnership with FinTech firm solarisBank, has become the first in the country to offer cryptocurrency trading to institutional investors.WertpapierhandelsBank...
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Possible Anthropic deal fuels IREN optimism despite concerns
Anthropic reportedly has an unannounced multiyear cloud deal with IREN, though neither company has confirmed the partnership.The potential deal...
IMF: Most tokenized stock trades happen off Wall St hours
More than half of tokenized equity trading happens outside regular U.S. market hours, and about 80% of trades are...
Coinbase BTC mortgage product gets thousands of applications
Coinbase Asset Management President Anthony Bassili said the Bitcoin mortgage down payment product has “thousands of applications” in the...
