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Bitcoin Daily: Barclays Bars UK Customers From Moving Funds To Binance; Coinbase Looks To Expand...
July 05, 2021

Barclays won’t be allowing U.K. customers to transfer funds to Binance, the Financial Times (FT) writes. This comes as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said that digital exchanges weren’t allowed to do crypto business within the U.K., with the idea of keeping users’ money safe....

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Bitcoin Daily: Mercado Bitcoin Raises $200 Million; South Africa Moves For Stricter Crypto Regulations
July 01, 2021

Mercado Bitcoin has raised $200 million in a Series B funding round from the SoftBank Latin America fund, a press release says, according to parent company 2TM Group. The company plans to use its funds to boost its scale, add more offerings and invest in...

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Bitcoin Daily: NCR, NYDIG To Allow Bitcoin Buys; World Wide Web Source Code Sold As...
June 30, 2021

A deal between payments company NCR and NYDIG, a digital assets firm, will benefit 650 companies looking at offering bitcoin purchases, a Forbes report says. The deal will see community banks including First Citizens Bank from North Carolina, along with credit unions like Bay Federal...

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Bitcoin Daily: eToro Chief Says More Crypto Regulation Likely Coming; NatWest Limits Crypto Transactions, Fearing...
June 29, 2021

More regulations and oversight are likely to be levied at the burgeoning crypto industry, according to Yoni Assia, CEO of equity, derivatives and crypto trading platform eToro, the Financial Times (FT) reports. He said that with the new interest in crypto as it goes more...

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Bitcoin Daily: Circle Teams With Crypto.com On Digital Asset Availability; India Spends Billions On Crypto
June 28, 2021

Crypto.com will make use of Circle‘s APIs in order to allow onramping of fiat funds and letting 10 million customers access USD Coin funds, a press release says. Crypto.com users will be able to add value to their digital asset accounts and purchase cryptocurrencies including...

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Bitcoin Daily: Nigerian School To Take Crypto For Fee Payments; JPMorgan Bearish On Bitcoin
June 27, 2021

Ricardo Salinas Pliego, owner of Banco Azteca, has said his bank will be attempting to accept cryptocurrency like bitcoin, Bloomberg writes. “Sure, I recommend the use of Bitcoin, and me and my bank are working to be the first bank in Mexico to accept Bitcoin,...

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Bitcoin Daily: Chainalysis Raises $100 Million; Q2 Holdings To Allow For Crypto Buying; Met Makes...
June 24, 2021

Chainalysis has raised $100 million in a Series E funding round, according to a press release. The company’s value is now sitting at $4.2 billion. Chainalysis is known for its work in the crypto industry, making it so that government agencies and other such entities...

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Bitcoin Falls As China Continues Halt On Mining
June 21, 2021

Bitcoin dropped to $32,288, losing about 7.5 percent of its value, the lowest in a dozen days, as officials in China continued putting the brakes on mining operations, Reuters reported on Monday (June 21). “Crackdown on Chinese miners might mean that they are offloading coin...

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Dorsey: Lightning Network May Be Coming To Twitter
June 11, 2021

Will Twitter integrate the bitcoin layer 2 payments protocol Lightning Network? CEO and Founder Jack Dorsey seemed to indicate as much on the social media platform this week, CoinDesk reported on Friday (June 11). Soon after Dorsey tweeted his appreciation for Sphinx Chat, a messaging...