Ghana is rolling out a general purpose digital currency, partnering with German banknote printer Giesecke+Devrient to do it, Reuters reported. The nation wants to eventually spin the pilot program into a digital form of its own national currency, which will be called e-Cedi, according to...
Non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem DraftKings Marketplace has gone live and will be featuring its first Preseason Access Collection, set to debut this week. The exclusive content will be rolled out from Autograph and contains Preseason Access passes from Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, Tony Hawk, Naomi...
After dipping below $30,000 as recently as July 20, bitcoin is starting to show some recent momentum on the road back to $50,000. The world’s most popular cryptocurrency sat at $46,100 just after noon on Monday (Aug. 9), according to the CoinDesk tracker, although that’s...
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...
A new software update for Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain network, will likely stabilize transaction fees and cut down on the supply of the tokens, according to Reuters. Ether was trading lower prior to the news but gained afterward and was up 2.6 percent to $2,796,...
Data Gumbo, provider of blockchain-powered smart contract network GumboNet, has closed a Series B funding round with $7.7 million, according to a press release. These funds are adding onto the first close of the round at $4 million from September, the release stated. With the...
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...
CoinJar Card, a Mastercard product letting users spend their crypto like cash, has been rolled out in Australia, a company blog says. With the card, users will be able to spend the money in their CoinJar to make purchases. Users will be able to select...
The total number of Bitcoin addresses is up 30 percent as the most popular cryptocurrency has seen a network activity boost over the past week, FinanceMagnates.com reported. Crypto analytics program Glassnode found that the active Bitcoin entities per day had risen from 250,000 to around...