BtcTurk joins forces with the Turkish Football Federation on the road to the UEFA European Championship 2021. Major Turkish crypto exchange BtcTurk has become the main sponsor of both the women’s and men’s Turkish national soccer teams via an agreement with the Turkish Football Federation, Cointelegraph Turkey reported on Aug. 20. According to the official […]
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BlockFi’s Bitcoin reward card is inching forward. BlockFi, a major American cryptocurrency lending startup, has completed another funding round featuring major industry investors. The company has raised $50 million in a Series C round led by Anthony Pompliano’s crypto asset management firm Morgan Creek Digital, BlockFi announced on Aug. 20. Also known as Pomp, Morgan […]
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The price of yearn.finance’s YFI token surpassed the price of Bitcoin at $13,444. But it is more arbitrary and psychological. Yearn.finance’s native governance token YFI became the first-ever altcoin to surpass the price of Bitcoin (BTC) on Aug. 20. It spiked to as high as $13,444 on Binance, fueled by the growing demand for Decentralized […]
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A former chief economist of the IMF said neither private digital currencies nor central bank digital currencies should hold a monopoly. The former governor of Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, said that private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Facebook’s Libra may have a future even when central banks roll out their own digital currencies. […]
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Developers could soon build dapps to run on multiple blockchains without compromise thanks to new cross-chain protocols. Cross-chain or blockchain interoperability research could finally be reaping results, with multiple projects launching interoperability protocols this week. Ontology (ONT), Neo (NEO) and Switcheo have collaborated to launch the “heterogeneous interoperability protocol alliance” Poly Network, while the NEAR […]
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A look at the difference between halving cycle highs, lows and halving prices delivers huge BTC price targets which their creator cautions are “hopium.” Bitcoin (BTC) needs to hit $340,000 just to match its performance from its last halving cycle, data shows. In a Twitter series on Aug. 20, popular statistics resource ChartsBTC noted that […]
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New details reveal the unusual strategies employed by ransomware negotiators in a recent attack on the University of California. Details of a week-long negotiation between the University of California and a NetWalker ransomware gang have been revealed by Bloomberg. The University’s School of Medicine was working on a vaccine for Covid-19 in June this year […]
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A Bitcoin Cash upgrade that would mandate all newly minted blocks donate 8% to development is threatening to drive a hard fork in November. Bitcoin ABC, the dominant implementation of Bitcoin Cash (BCH), has published a controversial new upgrade that BCH supporters must deploy prior to November 15 to facilitate changes to the crypto asset’s […]
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The Middle Eastern restaurant, with three locations across Ontario, announced it would be switching its cash reserves to crypto. A Canada-based Middle Eastern restaurant chain just converted their entire fiat cash reserves into Bitcoin. According to an Aug. 19 tweet from Tahini’s — ‘the best Middle Eastern restaurant in the world’ — the decision to […]
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Jack Daniels says it successfully fended off the attack, but the REvil ransomware gang has put stolen data up for auction on the darknet. Ransomware gang REvil, known also as Sodinokibi, claims to have mounted a successful attack against the U.S. wine and spirits giant, Brown-Forman Corp — but the company claims otherwise. The company […]
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