El Salvador became the world’s first country to accept bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday (Sept. 7) and marked the occasion by purchasing about $21 million of the digital currency, President Nayib Bukele said on Twitter. In several tweets, Bukele said that the country purchased...
Charles Randell, head of the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has said regulators in the country should be given more power to protect consumers from shady cryptocurrency investments promoted online. Randell, according to a report by Financial Times (FT), said it would take time to...
As the government in El Salvador readies to adopt bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday (Sept. 7), a poll by the Central American University (UCA) shows that almost 70 percent of residents are not happy about it, Reuters and other media reported on Friday (Sept....
Twitter’s iOS Tip Jar for content creators — now in beta mode — suggests that bitcoin gratuities could be added, BeInCrypto and other news outlets reported on Wednesday (Sept. 1). When the Tip Jar was first rolled out in May, Twitter gave its users the...
Reactions to cryptocurrencies have been mixed across the world. While countries like El Salvador have embraced bitcoin and classified the marquee cryptocurrency as legal currency, others like India and China have been more measured in their approach — or downright hostile toward the virtual currencies....
Launchpool Labs, the community-centric blockchain incubator, will be incubating NOWwhere, an intelligent non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, per a Monday (August 16) press release. NOWwhere is using a “‘Netflix-style’ recommendation engine” that indexes, scores and ranks assets, which the company then uses to connect collectors and...
Although still skeptical, Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez said he is cautiously putting his support behind bitcoin and isn’t ruling out launching a central bank digital currency. During an interview with local media Caja Negra, aired by Filo.news, Fernandez said the concept of bitcoin and digital...
There will soon be new bitcoin ATMs available in New York City at Circle K locations, a report from The New York Post says. “Our goal is to provide as much access as we possibly can for consumers by putting more ATM machines in all...
Digital asset marketplace Bakkt’s parent company Bakkt Holdings has partnered with sandwich chain Quiznos to roll out a physical location and let Quiznos customers pay with cryptocurrency, a press release says. This will make the capability available in the Denver market, which will include the...
