Venezuelan mayors agreed to join the government’s plan to expand the adoption of Petro despite some municipalities not having the technology to handle it. The Bolivarian Council of Mayors in Venezuela signed the so-called “National Tax Harmonization Agreement” for 305 municipalities in the country, including the Petro (PTR) as a means to collect payments of […]
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Cointelegraph’s recent China blockchain event spanned five continents and attracted 100,000 viewers. Around 100,000 people in total attended the 2020 Great Bay Area International Blockchain Week, hosted by Cointelegraph China and Cointelegraph in Shenzhen’s Great Bay district in the first week of August. Guests were divided between those who participated online and offline, according to […]
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Investors can HODL or trade during a Bitcoin bull run, but experts urge them to be skeptical above all else. With sentiment suggesting Bitcoin and the crypto markets are about to go on a bull run, seasoned old timers are warning about the lessons learned from previous rallies. With Bitcoin correcting 5% in the past […]
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Behaving like a tech stock means Bitcoin carries the same high risk and high reward opportunities as a fledgling startup. Bitcoin acts more like a tech startup stock than digital gold — with investors reaping big rewards if it works but potentially losing everything if the crypto asset fails. That’s the conclusion of an Aug. […]
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A crowdfunding campaign raised more than $50,000 in the first two days toward the creation of viral videos promoting Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) advocate and CEO of BitcoinBCH.com, Hayden Otto, has launched a fundraising campaign to create viral videos promoting BCH to mainstream audiences — after failing to win over crypto converts to the […]
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Yam Finance claims to bring fairness to farming with new elastic supply token. The latest craze in the DeFi sector is a new yield farming protocol called Yam which promises ‘equal opportunity’ staking with no premine, no founder shares, and a zero value token at launch. The experimental Yam Protocol is the talk of Crypto […]
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The final token sale for NEAR Protocol was postponed after CoinList exchange was overwhelmed by traffic. The highly anticipated tokensale for decentralized application (DApp) platform NEAR Protocol was postponed by 24 hours after CoinList — the exchange hosting the offering — went down around the scheduled launch time. Originally scheduled for 10 am ET on […]
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The DeFi boom continues with a new decentralized derivatives exchange token mooning hours after it was launched. The latest DeFi token to moon is for the decentralized derivatives exchange Serum ,which surged by four figures following its launch and exchange listings. The Serum Project is a new, non-custodial DEX that launched on August 11 and […]
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CME Bitcoin futures set a new open interest high at $841 million, further highlighting growing institutional interest in BTC. Today the open interest on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Bitcoin (BTC) futures reached a new all-time high at $841 million. Although this can’t be deemed bullish on a standalone basis, it does signal that professional investors’ interest […]
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IBM could teach banks a thing or two about DeFi. In a Cointelegraph interview, director of IBM financial services and digital assets, Nitin Gaur, shared how the technology company is helping financial institutions to capitalize on the DeFi movement. Gaur — the author of Blockchain for Business — says it is essential that banks understand […]
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