MoneyGram saw a significant rise in user transaction numbers for May 2020 compared to the same period last year, coinciding with a partnership with Ripple that began last June. Global money transfer platform MoneyGram recently unveiled year-over-year growth numbers, showing double the number of transactions seen in May 2019. MoneyGram ended Q1 2020 with 57% […]
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The Winklevoss twins are bringing Bitcoin Billionaires to the silver screen along with former Warner Bros. president Greg Silverman. Stampede Ventures — a production company owned by ex-Warner Bros. president Greg Silverman — has partnered with Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss to produce a movie featuring the brothers’ story as portrayed in the best-selling book “Bitcoin […]
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The CEO of Celo alliance member Blockdaemon believes that the Celo ecosystem will soon comprise “PayPal on speed with its own native currencies.” Since launching its Alliance for Prosperity earlier this year, open payment platform Celo has quickly emerged as an apparent rival to Facebook’s Libra stablecoin project. Cointelegraph spoke to Konstantin Richter, the CEO […]
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Central bank digital currencies endanger private banks, warned the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia branch of the United States Federal Reserve has published a new report that warns about the potential effects of issuing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). In the report, the Fed said that — after the introduction of a CBDC […]
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Luxembourg-based startup ANote Music will launch a blockchain-based platform that allows its users to invest in music royalties. Luxembourg-based startup ANote Music will launch a blockchain-based platform that allows its users to invest in music royalties on July 28. In an announcement on June 4, CEO and co-founder at ANote Music Marzio Schena said that […]
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Amid protests, rioting and general uncertainty, mainstream markets have posted positive numbers, seemingly contrasting the state of the U.S. Even in light of recent riots, protests, and uncertainties, mainstream U.S. financial markets show upward prices due to overarching forces, according to Morgan Creek Digital co-founder, Anthony Pompliano. “Yes there are protests, there are all these […]
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Partner at Initialized Capital Brett Gibson reveals his firm’s main criteria for early-stage startups to invest in and explains the most promising products on the market. Partner at Initialized Capital Brett Gibson revealed the main criterias used by his VC firm to invest into early stage startups and shared his views on the most promising […]
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Famed pop music video director Joseph Kahn has announced that cryptocurrency trading is his new favorite hobby. Joseph Kahn, a music video director who has worked for the world’s leading pop stars for over two decades, has announced that trading crypto assets is his new favorite hobby. After claiming to have spent the past month […]
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The crypto industry has the best historical moment to change the discourse about crypto and its reputation into a successful innovative tech sector. Blockchains reached a feverish level of hype following the ICO mania of 2017. Peddled as the panacea to the world’s ills, many of such promises ill-intentioned, initial coin offerings raised enormous sums […]
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Many altcoins are showing significant strength as they approach their 200-day moving averages, this suggests that the sentiment in the sector remains bullish. Institutional demand for Bitcoin remains high, even as the price turned down after the block reward halving. Some in the space believe that if institutional and retail demand picks up, there will […]
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