All 350 members of Spain’s lower house got 1 euro equivalent in cryptocurrency, and it’s not a donation. Members of Spain’s lower house of Congress saw a surprise in their inboxes, the equivalent of 1 euro in crypto. As reported by Spanish news outfit ABC, the plan is spearheaded by Tutellus, a decentralized platform looking […]
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U.S. regulators are starting to track crypto more seriously, and that’s a good sign for all crypto holders. Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee, the founder of McAfee Associates — the company that released the first commercial antivirus software, McAfee VirusScan, in the late 1980s, contributing to the birth of multibillion-dollar industry — was indicted on […]
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The Department of Justice made headlines in crypto and elsewhere, leading a week of law enforcement locking down around the world. Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s note Historians typically date the birth of international policing as we know it today […]
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Nobody who believes in crypto wants it to be a sector beholden to criminality or poor commitment to security. John McAfee’s recent detention in Spain caps off a few weeks where crypto news feeds have been dusted with reports of regulator enforcement actions and bans, arrests, and an exchange hack. Crypto news hasn’t looked like […]
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DeFi-tokens corrected heavily over the past 30-days but on-chain data suggest Ether is in the early stages of a bullish reversal. While Ether (ETH) price has been stuck between the $340-$350 range for the last month, multiple on-chain metrics suggest that a recovery may be building. Santiment, a cryptocurrency data analytics firm, recently noted that […]
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Despite Bitcoin’s online sentiment being at a two-year low, analytics say that BTC may be on the verge of a breakout. The global economy doesn’t seem to be in a good place right now, especially with countries such as the United Kingdom, France and Spain imposing fresh, new restrictions across their borders, thereby making the […]
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The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — one week on Cointelegraph in one link! Coming every Sunday, Hodlers Digest tracks every important crypto news story from the previous week. Essential reading for all Hodlers! Top Stories This Week DeFi goes boom as top tokens […]
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Banque de France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau wanted about the threat of “Big Tech” stablecoins. The governor of the Bank of France has warned that Europe cannot afford to lose momentum in tackling the challenges posed by private sector global digital assets. His warning came as five EU governments — Germany, France, Italy, Spain […]
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Blockchain could be key for ensuring user privacy in COVID-19 contact-tracing apps. Countries all over the world are feeling the impact of COVID-19, as travel restrictions have virtually put an end to tourism for this year. To put this into perspective, recent statistics from Hawaii’s Maui News found that in June of this year, 1,929 […]
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Coinbase is offering crypto customers 2% interest for their Dai holdings. U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase is now offering a way for users in six countries holding Dai to earn up to 2% back from rewards. According to a July 29 post on the Coinbase blog, Dai (DAI) holders in the United States, U.K., Netherlands, Spain, […]
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